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Ground Pork and Cabbage Stir-Fry

Ground pork browned hard with shredded cabbage and a savory soy-ginger sauce over rice.

Ground Pork and Cabbage Stir-Fry, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
27 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$15.15

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 lb ground pork
  • 1 green cabbage
  • 1 1/2 cup jasmine rice
  • 3 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
  • 1 oz fresh ginger root
  • 4 clove garlic
  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1 bunch green onions / scallions

Method

  1. Start the rice.

  2. Heat the vegetable oil in a large skillet over high. Add the ground pork and press it flat, letting it brown undisturbed for 3 minutes before breaking it up.

  3. Cook until no pink remains, about 5 minutes total, then add the minced garlic and grated ginger for 30 seconds.

  4. Add half a head of cabbage, shredded, and stir-fry 5 minutes until wilted but still with some bite.

  5. Pour in the soy sauce, vinegar, and sesame oil and toss to coat.

  6. Serve over the rice, scattered with sliced scallions.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 10 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United States$60.61$15.1510 of 10 ingredients
United Kingdom£19.65£4.919 of 10 ingredients
Australia$51.49$12.879 of 10 ingredients
Canada$76.68$19.179 of 10 ingredients
Mexico$730.38$182.607 of 10 ingredients
New Zealand$30.29*$7.576 of 10 ingredients
Greece15,82 €*3,96 €6 of 10 ingredients
Egypt‏٤٤٧٫٣٤ ج.م.‏*‏١١١٫٨٤ ج.م.‏6 of 10 ingredients
Germany18,67 €*4,67 €6 of 10 ingredients
Austria€ 24,95*€ 6,246 of 10 ingredients
Spain8,40 €*2,10 €4 of 10 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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