Laocai

Overview

A relative gave me a handful of home-grown mustard greens, and I made them into laocai according to local customs. The name laocai may be a local dialect. I understand that laocai means blanch it in water and then fish it out, so it is called laocai

Tags

• home cooking
• quick dishes
• lunch
• dinner
• dried chili pepper, salt
• mustard

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash the mustard greens and cut them into sections. Add more water to the pot. After boiling, put the stems into the pot and blanch them for three minutes

   

2. 2 Add mustard leaves and blanch for two minutes

   

3. 3 After blanching, cool in cold water

   

4. 4 Chop into pieces and squeeze out the water

   

5. 5 Heat the pan and put more oil, first add the dried chilies and then the mustard greens and stir-fry

   

6. 6 Add salt and stir-fry until the water is almost dry, then it is ready to serve. It tastes good and goes well with rice!