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Snow vegetable
雪菜
Salt-pickled potherb mustard, chopped: salty, fragrant and faintly sour, a Shanghai and Ningbo pickle that the café puts under shredded pork in 雪菜肉絲 soup vermicelli, braised vermicelli and fried noodles. Every Australian Asian grocer keeps vacuum packs on the pickle shelf, Fish Well 350g, for example, or 70 to 80g sachets; supermarkets do not carry it. Rinse and squeeze it first, then fry it fragrant before the pork goes in.
Cautions: read first
- Salty, so hold back the salt once it is in; some brands are pickled with soy sauce and contain soy or wheat, mandatory-declaration allergens in Australia, so read the pack.
Preparation
Rinse, squeeze dry, chop and fry fragrant first.
Origin
Shanghai and Ningbo. Vacuum packs on the pickle shelf of every Asian grocer; Online Asian grocers have them too. Rinsed shredded 榨菜 or finely chopped 鹹酸菜 stand in, and the dish changes but holds.
Availability in Australia
Easy to find
Australian name · pickled potherb mustard / snow vegetable (Fish Well Delicious Potherb Mustard 350g)
Where · The pickle shelf of every Asian grocer (vacuum packs); Asian Food Online; not in supermarkets
What to ask for · The pack reads Potherb Mustard or Preserved Mustard Greens (xue cai)
If it is not there · Rinsed shredded 榨菜, or finely chopped 鹹酸菜
Where · The pickle shelf of every Asian grocer (vacuum packs); Asian Food Online; not in supermarkets
What to ask for · The pack reads Potherb Mustard or Preserved Mustard Greens (xue cai)
If it is not there · Rinsed shredded 榨菜, or finely chopped 鹹酸菜
