Vegetables · Ingredients

Leafy greens

青菜叶

Qīngcài yè

Tender edible vegetable leaves used as the green filling of jade shaomai. The culinary term does not identify a single species or cultivar.

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Green vegetable leaves; identify the particular vegetable separately when it is known.

Blanched, cooled, chopped and squeezed dry before being mixed into the dumpling filling.

The type of green leaf is not specified here; do not equate this term with bok choy or another particular vegetable.