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Filipino cabbage in garlic and soy sauce

         INGREDIENTS (serves 5)
¼ cup     cooking oil
2     cloves garlic, minced
1     onion, minced
1 cup     boiled meat (pork, chicken, or shrimp)
    cut into thin strips
1     small cabbage, shredded
3 Tbsp     soy sauce
3 Tbsp     broth
1 bunch     celery
8 oz     rice sticks or wheat noodles
1 tsp     salt
1 tsp     MSG
1     spring onion, chopped
PROCEDURE

(1)     Sauté garlic in cooking oil.
(2)     Add onions, meat, carrot and cabbage. Season with soy sauce and fry for 2 more minutes.
(3)     Add broth and simmer, then add celery.
(4)     When vegetables are cooked, add rice sticks or noodles and season with salt and MSG. Garnish with spring onions.
(5)     Serve with lemon.
NOTES

You will need a big frying pan to fit all the ingredients. You may leave out the salt and MSG if you like. I have successfully used lightly-microwaved bacon as the meat.
RATING

Difficulty: easy. Time: 20 minutes. Precision: approximate measurement OK.