Japanese-Style Egg-Free Pork & Cabbage Breakfast Stir-Fry
A crisp-edged cabbage and pork stir-fry with ginger-garlic aroma—low-carb and deeply savory.

Total
40 min
Prep
20 min
Cook
20 min
Serves
3
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Recipe serves 3
Ingredients
- 450 g pork ground or thin-sliced pork
- 500 g green cabbage
- 250 g mushrooms
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 tbsp ginger
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp rice vinegar
- 0.5 cup chicken broth (no wheat)
- 1 tbsp brown sugar (or monk fruit sweetener)(optional)
- 0.75 tsp salt
- 0.5 tsp black pepper
- 2 stalks green onion(optional)
Instructions
- 1
Shred cabbage; slice mushrooms; mince garlic and ginger.
- 2
Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high. Add pork and cook until browned, 8–10 minutes.
- 3
Add garlic and ginger; cook 30 seconds.
- 4
Add cabbage and mushrooms; stir-fry 6–8 minutes until cabbage is tender-crisp.
- 5
Add rice vinegar and chicken broth; simmer 2–3 minutes until lightly reduced.
- 6
Season with salt and pepper; add optional sweetener if needed. Finish with green onion (optional).
Nutrition per serving
Calories
520
26% of a 2,000 kcal day
| Protein | 34 g |
| Carbohydrate | 18 g |
| Fat | 34 g |
| Fiber | 8 g |
| Sugar | 4 g |
| Sodium | 560 mg |
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