Petite Shanghai Cabbage With Hoisin Sauce

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I'm a cabbage lover, truthful immoderate clip I spot a caller assortment of cabbage astatine the marketplace it's bound to marque its mode to my meal table. I'm peculiarly fond of the Chinese cabbages, particularly the babe oregon petite versions.

Baby bok choy is simply a favorite. I emotion the tender leaves and the somewhat bitter sensation of the stalks. I'm conscionable arsenic fond of different tiny Chinese bok choys, but I've lone precocious been capable to find them extracurricular of Asian markets. Wegmans and prime Harris Teeter stores are present selling clamshell (plastic boxes) packages from Melissa's Produce of babe bok choy's cousins: petite choy sum (the bosom of full-size ample bok choy) and petite Shanghai cabbage (a bok choy that's adjacent smaller than babe bok choy). They're each bok choys, which is simply a small confusing, but they're each good.

In this recipe, I'm utilizing the petite Shanghai cabbages. Each 1-pound container contains astir 16 to 18 idiosyncratic 3-to-5-inch-long cabbages. They travel trimmed, truthful I conscionable person to rinse them successful acold h2o earlier using. The cabbages tin beryllium sliced and utilized successful stir-fries, chopped into julienne and added to salads, oregon cooked whole.

Here, the cabbages are steamed and served with a hoisin-infused condiment thickened with cornstarch. The steamed cabbages crook a beauteous agleam green, and the condiment lends a fantastic Asian flavor. Serve with grilled steaks, broiled salmon oregon chicken.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Ingredients

1 lb (16 to 18) petite shanghai cabbages, rinsed (see headnote)
1 tablespoonful olive oil
4 oregon 5 scallions, achromatic and light-green parts, chopped crosswise into bladed slices (1/4 cup)
1-inch portion peeled ginger root, finely chopped oregon minced (1 tablespoon)
2 tablespoons bourbon, whiskey oregon adust sherry
1 cupful low-sodium oregon homemade chickenhearted broth
2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil, oregon much to taste
1/2 spoon sugar, oregon much to taste
2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
1 tablespoonful cornstarch
2 tablespoons acold water
1 to 2 tablespoons toasted sesame seeds, for garnish (optional; spot NOTE)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
89
Fat
4 g
Saturated Fat
1 g
Carbohydrates
9 g
Sodium
202 mg
Protein
2 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
5 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Tested by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Published March 2, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026