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The Hirshon Sichuan Shredded Pork in Hot Garlic Sauce -鱼香肉丝

April 2, 2017 by The Generalissimo 5 Comments

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The Hirshon Sichuan Shredded Pork in Hot Garlic Sauce -鱼香肉丝
Pork in Hot Garlic Sauce Image Used Under Creative Commons License From cp1.douguo.net

Citizens, prepare yourselves for an education with this dish, as it is one of the most confusingly-named you’ll ever find! Shredded pork in hot garlic sauce, also named as Yu Xiang Rou Si(鱼香肉丝), is one of the most outstanding dishes in the entire Chinese recipe canon!

Why is it confusing – well, for one thing, it has very little garlic in it and the correct name of the dish is “fish-fragrant” despite the fact it is never used with seafood or made from anything that swims!

Yuxiang (simplified Chinese: 鱼香; traditional Chinese: 魚香; pinyin: yúxiāng; literally: “fish fragrance”) is a seasoning mixture in Chinese cuisine, and also refers to the resulting sauce in which meat or vegetables are cooked. It is said to have originated in Sichuan cuisine, but has since spread to other regional Chinese cuisines.

On top of the basic mixture, cooking yuxiang almost always includes the use of sugar, vinegar, doubanjiang, soy sauce, and pickled chili peppers.

Proper preparation of the yuxiang seasoning includes finely minced pao la jiao (pickled chili), white scallion, ginger and garlic. They are mixed in more or less equal portions, though some prefer to include more scallions than ginger and garlic. The mixture is then fried in oil till fragrant, then adding water, starch, sugar and vinegar to create the basic sauce.

Despite the term literally meaning “fish fragrance” in Chinese, yuxiang contains no seafood, is typically not used in seafood, but rather for dishes often containing beef, pork, or chicken, as well as vegetarian recipes.

In fact, the late Chinese scholar and chef Barbara Tropp suggests in “The Modern Art of Chinese Cooking” that the characters can also be interpreted as meaning “Sichuan-Hunan” flavor, which TFD agrees with.

Since Chinese pickled peppers are exceedingly hard to find, TFD has used his unique genius to replace them with peppadew peppers! The other hard-to-find ingredients may be found at your local Asian grocer, Amazon or here. The ingredient proportions have of course been adapted to my specific and highly-refined taste.

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The Hirshon Sichuan Shredded Pork in Hot Garlic Sauce -鱼香肉丝


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Ingredients

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  • 2 tablespoons of dried wood ear mushrooms
  • 1/2 pound pork tenderloin
  • 1 small section of lettuce stem
  • 1 fresh red pepper
  • 1 fresh green pepper
  • 10 pickled peppadew peppers (or replace with fresh long red peppers)
  • 2 garlic cloves, chopped
  • 1 inch of peeled ginger, sliced
  • 2 spring onion white parts (cut into small sections)
  • 1 tablespoon chopped spring onion for garnish
  • 2 tablespoons peanut oil
  • Marinade Sauce
  • 1 teaspoon cornstarch
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons Shaoxing rice wine (you can replace it with dry sherry wine )
  • Stir-fry sauce
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
  • 2 tablespoons Shaoxing rice wine
  • 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoons Zhejiang black vinegar
  • 2 teaspoons sugar
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 1 tablespoon sesame oil
  • 1 tbsp spicy bean paste (郫县豆瓣酱/Pixian Dou Ban Jiang strongly preferred)
  • 1 teaspoon Chinese chili paste with garlic (Lan Chi brand preferred)

Instructions

  1. Soak the dried mushrooms with warm water for 20 minutes.
  2. Shred the pork tenderloin and then marinate with salt, shaoxing and starch. Mix well and set aside.
  3. Shred the black ear mushrooms, lettuce stem and peppers into shreds of similar sizes.
  4. Prepare another bowl, add all the ingredients for stir-fry sauce; mix well and set aside.
  5. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a wok; add shredded pork to stir-fry until the pork becomes white. Move shredded pork out of the wok.
  6. Leave 1 tablespoons of oil in wok; add garlic, ginger and green onion to stir fry for the aroma. Then put vegetable ingredients in to stir-fry for around 1 minute and then return the pork shreds.
  7. Add stir-fry sauce and cook until the sauce is evenly coated on the ingredients.
  8. Move out from the wok and garnish with some spring onions.
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Nutrition

  • Calories: 284.62 kcal
  • Sugar: 11.66 g
  • Sodium: 1086.29 mg
  • Fat: 13.13 g
  • Saturated Fat: 2.55 g
  • Trans Fat: 0.02 g
  • Carbohydrates: 25.04 g
  • Fiber: 6.71 g
  • Protein: 16.34 g
  • Cholesterol: 36.85 mg

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  1. Bill Haley

    April 3, 2017 at 1:14 PM

    They didn’t have that on student street!

    Reply
  2. Ditchie Ditch

    April 3, 2017 at 3:08 PM

    Ayni oh paboritu ku Chinese food Keileiklei MC

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    • Keileiklei MC

      April 3, 2017 at 3:09 PM

      Aywa nuko niaman

      Reply
  3. icharmeat

    June 15, 2017 at 7:49 AM

    Can anyone tell me what is a
    lettuce stem?

    Reply
    • The Generalissimo

      June 16, 2017 at 2:35 PM

      It’s a Chinese vegetable, try using brocolli stems (peeled) or any other crunchy vegetable as a substitute.

      Reply

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