Chinese braised red cabbage

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Recipe by Barney Desmazery

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1. Tip all the ingredients, except the spring onions, sesame seeds and oil, into a large pan with a lid, and bring to a simmer. Cook over a low heat for 25-30 mins until all the liquid has evaporated and continue to cook, stirring regularly, until the juices become really sticky and glaze the cabbage.
2. Stir through half the spring onions and sesame seeds and pile into a bowl. Serve scattered with rest of the spring onions and sesame seeds and drizzled with the sesame oil.

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Per serving

150 kcalories, protein 4g, carbohydrate 22g, fat 56 g, saturated fat 1g, fibre 5g, salt 1.41 g

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• Gander

  18 January 2008

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  Served this with the sticky pork recipe (http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4688/sticky-pork.jsp?binderbox=showlogin#3). My advice is make sure you cook the cabbage for long enough because we were in a bit of a rush and so it didn't turn out as soft or glazed as I would have liked. I didn't have any rice wine vinegar so used a combination of rice vinegar and white wine vinegar. Look out for the star anise after it has cooked because they tend to hide themselves pretty well!

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• Beth

  02 March 2008

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  Really nice - served it with the peking chicken and the brocolli stir fry.

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  18 January 2009

  ST rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Very good - would allow more time to cook it than 25 minutes, although I think my cabbage was very big - you can just keep it warm if it's ready ahead of other food. Also served with sticky pork recipe, would make again.

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Ingredients

• 1 large red cabbage , finely shredded
• 3 red chillies , halved, deseeded and chopped
• large piece fresh root ginger , peeled and finely sliced
• 4 star anise
• 4 garlic cloves , chopped
• 75ml rice wine vinegar
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 50g caster sugar
• 4 spring onions , finely sliced
• toasted sesame seeds
• 1 tbsp sesame oil

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Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Prep 20 mins

Cook 30 mins

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Ingredients

• 1 large red cabbage , finely shredded
• 3 red chillies , halved, deseeded and chopped
• large piece fresh root ginger , peeled and finely sliced
• 4 star anise
• 4 garlic cloves , chopped
• 75ml rice wine vinegar
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 50g caster sugar
• 4 spring onions , finely sliced
• toasted sesame seeds
• 1 tbsp sesame oil

Per serving

150 kcalories, protein 4g, carbohydrate 22g, fat 56 g, saturated fat 1g, fibre 5g, salt 1.41 g

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