Monday, January 18, 2010

college food series: Xue Li Hong (雪裡紅)

Okay, I can't really find another name for this because it already has an official name. This is an alteration of the traditional chinese dish. Barely with my writing plz im taking a break from studying right now so i'm not gonna care about my grammar and crap.

This dish is much more complicated compared to all my other dishes, but it's still simple in general. This dish does require some preparation though.

Ingredient:
1. mustard leaf (小芥菜), you might only find it in a chinese grocery store, 1 bag
2. red chili, 2 pieces
3. mushrooms (the black ones that have strong flavors, not those you put in pasta), 2 pieces
4. ground pork, 1/2 pound

procedures:
1. the day before you cook it, wash all the leaves and layer them. put salt on each layer as shown in picture
2. put it in fridge and let it sit for one day. make sure you either put it in a bag or whatever, the water is gonna leak

3. after letting it sit for one day, take it out and wash the salt out from every single leaf. this is important, so you dont make it too salty.

4. marinate pork with soy sauce, sesame oil, a little wine, and a little sugar

5. chop all the mustard leaves into very small pieces, squeeze water out if possible

6. dice the mushrooms, slice the chilis

7. heat up the pan, fry the chilis a bit

8. put in the mushroom and pork, cook until the pork is done

9. put the pork aside and dump in the veggies

10. cook a little, then mix them all together.

11. throw in some sugar and taste if it's salty enough, if not, use some salt, don't use soy sauce

12. if it's too watery, through in some corn starch (it's better if you let it dissolve in water before pouring it in, but it's okay if you're too lazy)

13. once it gets dry enough, turn off the flame, let it sit a bit

14. DONE!!!!!!!

This dish is great with rice and noodle. You can cook some noodle soup and throw some of this in, it'll be awesome :)