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Meatball and Celery Cabbage Soup

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Yummy, and very very fast!


INGREDIENTS:

1 bunch celery cabbage (also called “Sui Choi,” or “Napa cabbage”)
1 pound lean ground pork
1/4 cup tapioca or arrowroot starch
2 tablespoons sweet white wine (or more!)
2 tablespoons wheat-free tamari sauce
1/4 teaspoon white pepper
8 cups chicken broth**
1-2 teaspoons salt

** Use your own (preferably made ahead!), or be really sure your purchased selection is “safe” for you


INSTRUCTIONS:

• Heat broth and salt to boiling in big saucepan.

• Chop celery cabbage up into bite-size (3/4-inch?) pieces.

• Add celery cabbage; return to boiling, and cook, uncovered, 2-10 minutes, depending on whether you like your celery cabbage crunchy or soft.

• Mix pork, starch, wine, tamari sauce, and white pepper together thoroughly.

• (*If you like to be particular, shape pork into balls, but I find they usually lose their fancy shape and become blobs anyway, so I just scoop off spoonfuls and drop them into the boiling broth as I go.)

• Add meatballs; heat to full boil again.

• Reduce heat, cover and simmer 2-5 minutes or until meatballs are done.

I usually serve over a scoop of medium-grain rice in the bottom of my bowl.


— Adapted by Erin Anne Beirne from a recipe in Betty Crocker’s New Chinese Cookbook, by Leeann Chin, copyright 1981.
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