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Napa Cabbage recipes

2 ways through a glut of napa cabbage, ready June to November. Sides, mains, preserves for the ones you can't eat fast enough.

Chinese Hot and Sour Napa Cabbage

A classic Sichuan stir-fried napa cabbage dish with dried chilies and black rice vinegar. The cabbage is cooked fast on high heat, retaining a pleasant crunch while absorbing the sweet, sour, and spicy sauce. A quick weeknight side that pairs brilliantly with rice.

18 min · easy · Napa Cabbage
Napa Cabbage and Tofu Miso Soup

A simple, restorative Japanese miso soup with napa cabbage and silken tofu. Unlike many miso soups, this one uses napa cabbage as the primary vegetable, giving it a gentle sweetness and body. Ready in 15 minutes, it's the bowl you reach for when you need something warming and uncomplicated.

22 min · easy · Napa Cabbage

Napa Cabbage coming out of your ears?

Log the harvest in the app and it lines up every napa cabbage recipe it has, 2,482 more than are on this site, then reminds you what's in the freezer before it's forgotten.

Track your Napa Cabbage from packet to plate

Sowing reminders and harvest forecasts for your own frost dates, the Seed Tin, Scan Centre for any label or packet, and the Potty Mouth Garden Club. Free to start.

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Tony C Smith

Allotment keeper in the North East of England, the voice behind the Tony C Smith YouTube channel, and the gardener who built GrowMore CookMore. Club numbers on this page update as members log their plots. Last updated 4 September 2026.