Chinese style - Crispy Seaweed. Crispy seaweed, despite the name, is in fact deep-fried spring greens. A popular Chinese dish, crispy seaweed can be finished with sesame seeds, Chinese five-spice powder, chilli, or simply sprinkled with salt and served with a sweet chilli dip. Alternatively, the spring greens can be baked in a hot.
Cabbage or other greens make an equally delicious recipe.
Rather than venturing to Asian markets, you can buy the ingredients at your local supermarket—and then wow your guests with the authentic recipe.
You can use any type of dark spring cabbage to make crispy seaweed - just like you'd find in any good Chinese.
You can cook Chinese style - Crispy Seaweed using 4 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Chinese style - Crispy Seaweed
- Prepare 1 of Dark green cabbage or bok choy.
- Prepare 3/4 tbsp of Sugar.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of Salt.
- It's 2/3 cup of cooking oil.
Make sure the cabbage is completely dry, then cook in hot oil in a wok. Before serving, season with salt, sugar and Chinese five spice powder. Great recipe for Chinese style - Crispy Seaweed. Crispy by name crispy by nature.
Chinese style - Crispy Seaweed step by step
- To create the effect of seaweed, cut the leaves of the cabbage into thin strips..
- Once all cut up, add the oil to a wock style frying and heat for 1 minute.
- Add the strips of cabbage to the hot oil on a medium heat and continuously flip the seaweed with the pan or the use of a utensil..
- Keep this up until the strips/seaweed have shunk and gotten darker in colour. You may want to sample to make sure the seaweed is crispy before you finish cooking..
- Once happy with it, transfer your seaweed onto thick kitchen paper towels to blot out any heavy oil then place into a medium sized bowl without the paper towels..
- Now, add the sugar evenly first mixing it around the seaweek with a spoon and do the same for the salt..
- After seasoning transfer onto your dinner plate to your presentation needs and your crispy seaweed is ready to eat..
Brilliant with any Chinese main dish or even as a snack. The sugar really infused with the salt to make a perfect blend of sweet and savory on my tongue. Overall, great light and enjoyable food. Crispy seaweed is a delicious Asian side dish that is actually made from kale! Try this Syn free recipe when you are throwing together a Slimming World friendly Chinese Fakeaway.