| Chinese name: 回锅肉 (huíguō ròu)
Style: Sichuan (Szechuan) Cuisine
Characteristic: Twice-cooked pork is red and green in color, rich in taste. The pork slices in it is fat but not greasy.
As the saying goes, if you haven't eaten twice-cooked pork in Si Chuan, you haven't actually been to Sichuan, even if you have. Twice-cooked pork is a traditional and popular dish in Sichuan. Almost every housewife in Sichuan can cook it. Nowadays, twice-cooked pork has been developed into a great variety according to different local flavors, but the way of cooking the pork is unchanged. |  |
| Ingredients:
pork butt, 8 ounces
garlic sprouts, 4 ounces
half a teaspoon salt
half a teaspoon chicken bouillon (or monosodium glutamate)
2 teaspoons cooking wine
3 teaspoons lobster sauce
4 teaspoons Chinese chili sauce
1 tablespoon cooking oil
1 teaspoon white sugar |  |
| Preparation:
1. Bring 3/4 wok of water to a boil. Add in the whole pork hindquarter to be boiled for about 3 minutes until 60% cooked, during which cooking wine, ginger and green onion sections can be added in to help to remove the fishy smell. Pick it out and put into a basin filled with cold water to be cooled for 1 minute. Remove it and cut into thin slices of 4-5 cm 3-4 cm long and 1-2 cm wide. Put onto a plate.
2. Wash the garlic sprouts. Pat the white stems on chopping board with kitchen knife until you feel the garlic smell. Cut into sections of 3 cm long. Put into plate. |  |
Steps to Twice-Cooked Pork
|  Step 1: Place a wok over high heat until hot. Add in 1 tablespoons of oil, and add in the pork hindquarter slices when the oil is hot. Add in chili sauce and lobster sauce. Stir-fry it for 10 seconds until fragrant. Add in 1 teaspoon of white sugar and 1 teaspoon of cooking wine. Stir-fry for about 5 seconds until the pork slices turn red. |
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| Step 2: Pour in the garlic sprouts sections. Stir-fry it for 10 seconds. Add in half a teaspoon salt and half a teaspoon chicken bouillon (or monosodium glutamate). Stir-fry for 6 seconds until garlic sprouts shrink and all the ingredients well mixed. |
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| Step 3: Finally, twice cooked pork is complete. Turn off the heat, remove it out of the wok and put into a prepared fine porcelain plate. Serve with rice. |
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Tips: Besides garlic sprouts, dry cowpeas, chili peppers, pickles, cabbage, garlic stems can also be used as the fixings to go with pork in this dish according to your favorite.
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