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Steamed pork cake amongst moi choi 梅菜蒸肉餅

Welcome To RecipesHitz.blogspot.com | There are thence many types of Chinese pickled vegetables. If you lot accept visited i of the larger Chinese supermarkets, you lot may live on baffled amongst the array of dried or moisture pickled vegetables: common salt pickled, vinegar pickled, spice pickled, sugariness pickled etc.. Everytime I instruct to those Chinese supermarkets inwards London I ever honour something I accept never tried or heard before. So many to pick out from together with quondam I don't fifty-fifty know what some of them were.

One of my favourite Chinese pickled vegetables is moi choi 梅菜 which is a brownish looking pickled mustard green. There are several kinds of moi choi, I similar together with commonly purchase the type amongst a hint of sweetness, commonly called sweet moi choi or sugariness mustard greenish 甜梅菜. This pickled vegetable does non await or scent appetising earlier cooking, kinda similar muddy socks but don't live on lay off in i trial cooked it is quite tasty.


Today recipe is plainly amongst moi choi together with the other star element is inexpensive together with cheerful minced or solid soil pork. It's steamed pork cake amongst moi choi, in Cantonese 'moi choi jin yuk biang' 梅菜蒸肉餅. This is zip especial an everyday Cantonese abode cooking. My mum used to brand this quite regular since nosotros were kids together with nosotros all loved it. Simple together with tardily to make. Tasty amongst land rice.



Ingredients: 
(meat cake plenty of three - iv people)

1 lb to 500g minced (ground) pork
1 fatty clove of garlic, minced
1 thumbsize chunk of ginger, minced
1 tbsp lite soy sauce
nigh 1/4 tsp solid soil pepper
two - three tsp sesame oil
1 - two tbsp cooking wine
1 small/medium egg
pinch of sugar
1.5 tbsp cornflour (cornstarch)

200g (1 packet) sugariness moi choi 甜梅菜 (sweet pickled mustard green)

some chopped restrict onion (scallion) and/or coriander (cilantro) - garnish


Method:

  1. Mix meat amongst all the ingredients except moi choi together with garnish. If you lot similar a firmer textured meat cake, marinate the pork together with continue inwards the refrigerator for few hours earlier cooking. 
  2. Rinse the moi choi amongst several modify of H2O to take away salt, sand together with grits. Keep changing H2O till H2O is quite clear together with no to a greater extent than gritty bits on bottom of bowl. Then using a knife together with take away the woody layer exterior the stalk bits earlier chopping the moi choi every bit fine every bit possible. Put chopped moi choi inwards a large sieve, briefly rinse amongst H2O to take away some of the saltiness. Squeeze dry out together with then lay inwards a bowl together with loosen. 
  3. Thoroughly mix moi choi amongst marinated pork. 
  4. Pile the meat mixture onto a deep dish. Form into a cake.
  5. Steam for nigh thirty - xl minutes till meat is cooked through. Cooking fourth dimension depends on thickness of meat. Check the centre of meat cake if it is theater within out it is cooked. There volition live on quite a combat of meat juice surrounding the cake, neat mixing amongst rice. Sometime at that topographic point may live on a layer of lite brownish custard similar soft bits unopen to the cake which I love. 
  6. While it is however steamy hot, sprinkle amongst some restrict onion and/or coriander together with serve amongst land rice together with some steamed or stir fried vegetable. 

Simple nutrient precisely tasty!