what can i do with napa cabbage?!
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Add it as a stir-fried veggie to any Chinese food dish.
Make your own kimchi.
Pickle it, Japanese-style.
Add it to a salad.
Eat it straight or dip it in anything instead of using junk food as a dipper.
This below link is the pirctures related to nappa(not napa), or Japanese cabbage.
Nappa is cooked in various dishes and very popular vegitable in Japan.
http://www.google.co.jp/images?hl=ja&rlz…
And the link below is how to make nappa pickle which is our traditional pickle.
http://www.geocities.jp/yamapon65/tisant…
Note: you can pickle nappa with just salt.
Here's a few International recipes to consider making (there are many versions of recipes online for these):
-Korean: Spicy savory Kimchi- Napa cabbage leaves fermented in garlicy red chili paste.
-Chinese: Stir fried with meat, tofu or other vegetables. My favorite is roughly chopped and stir fried with strips of beef in a garlicly & black bean sauce.
Pickled: Roughly chopped Napa cabbage covered with a pickling mixture of Mirin (Japanese rice wine & sugar). Placed in an airtight container in the refrigerator for a week.
-Eastern European: Cabbage rolls-Parboiled napa cabbage leaves with a meat filling all rolled up and simmered in a tomato based sauce.
You can do a lot of things with napa cabbage, making a filling for dumplings or make rolls with it.
Here's a website for some extra recipes.
http://www.sheknows.com/food-and-recipes/articles/809695/8-things-to-do-with-napa-cabbage