Cabbage Cooked with Bean Curd – Main Dish

3 lg Shiitake mushrooms

2 ea Cakes medium tofu

1 lb Cabbage, sliced

3 tb Oil

1/2 ts Salt

2 ts Soy sauce

1 ts Mirin sauce

Soak mushrooms in 3/4 c hot water for 1/2 hour. Put tofu onto a paper towel & leave to drain for 30 minutes. Remove mushrooms from water, reserve liquid. Cut off & discard stems. Slice caps into 1/4″ wide strips. Heat oil in an 8″ skillet. When hot, put in cabbage & mushrooms. Stir & fry for 1 minute, till cabbage wilts. Reduce heat to medium. Crumble tofu & it to the skillet. Add salt, soy sauce & mirin. Stir & fry for another 5 minutes.

Madhur Jaffrey, “World of the East Vegetarian Cookbook”.