Spicy Chinese Cabbage (La Bai Cai)

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Even though the cabbage is salted, it retains a small wound and gets its bully vigor from a chili infusion.

Serve arsenic 1 of galore dishes oregon for a airy lunch.

The cabbage needs to beryllium salted and refrigerated oregon near successful a chill spot for astatine slightest respective hours and up to overnight.

Ingredients

1 caput Chinese cabbage (about 1 1/3 pounds total; besides called napa cabbage)
2 1/2 teaspoons salt
3/4 spoon full Sichuan peppercorns
2 tablespoons rootlike oregon peanut oil
3 tiny dried reddish chile peppers, seeded and chopped into tiny pieces

Adapted from "Land of Fish and Rice: Recipes From the Culinary Heart of China," by Fuchsia Dunlop (W.W. Norton, 2016).

Tested by Sam Fromartz.

Published October 30, 2016

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Updated March 15, 2026

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