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A well-known Chinese dish,
eight-treasure vegetables, happosai in Japanese and
babaocai in Chinese, made with 100% vegetable ingredients.
Top marks for volume and taste! A popular recipe that
makes good use of the savoury taste of the vegetables.
Use it also as a topping for rice! |
Veggie meat happosai
Ingredients
1 handful of finely chopped
type veggie meat, 3 slices of wheat gluten veggie meat,
1/2 Chinese cabbage, 1 onion, 1 long Japanese leek,
1 carrot, 200g bamboo shoots, 10g dried shiitake mushrooms,
10g cloud ear mushrooms, 2 eringi (king trumpet) mushrooms,
1 piece ginger root, (1 segment garlic, if you like),
1/3 cup Japanese sake, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1 bag
Vegetas soup mix (with the powder removed from the bag),
2 tablespoons katakuriko
starch, 100cc water, appropriate amounts of salt, pepper,
grape seed oil, sesame oil.. |
1) Reconstitute the finely chopped
type veggie meat and the wheat gluten veggie meat
slices in ample hot water. Squeeze off the water when
soft, dip the finely chopped type veggie meat in a
little soy sauce and Vegetas soup mix (not included
in the ingredients above), cut the wheat gluten veggie
meat into bite-sized pieces and dip them lightly in
Vegetas soup mix (not included in the ingredients
above) and a little katakuriko starch.
2) Chop the Chinese cabbage into rough pieces, chop
the onion into half-circles, cut the long Japanese
leeks diagonally, cut the carrot and eringi mushrooms
into round slices and cut the bamboo shoots into rectangles.
Reconstitute the dried shiitake mushrooms and the
cloud ear mushrooms in water and cut them into easy-to-eat
pieces. Chop the ginger root up finely.
3) Fry the veggie meat from 1) and the eringi mushrooms
lightly in grape seed oil.
4) Place 2 tablespoons of sesame oil in a Chinese
wok and fry the ginger (and garlic)
over a low flame until a nice fragrance is coming
off, and then fry the vegetables from 2), starting
from the harder ones.
5) When the oil is covering everything nicely, add
3), the sake and the Vegetas soup mix. Continue to
steam-boil till the vegetables are nice and soft.
6) Pour in a little soy sauce here and there and after
seasoning with a little salt and pepper, add katakuriko
starch mixed into 2 tablespoons of water and mix in
to thicken the sauce.
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[Made with the following vegetarian ingredients]
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Finely chopped veggie meat
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Wheat gluten veggie meat slices
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Katakuriko starch
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Grape seed oil
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Vegetas soup mix
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Pure sesame oil
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Dried cloud ear mushrooms
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Japanese soy sauce
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World salt
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Organic white pepper
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Light
and Waves Natural Water |
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[Staff comment]
We enjoyed the crispy, crunchy textures
of the vegetables! This is a very good recipe for the
summer, when the body tends to cool down. |
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