Cold North Wind Mushroom Salad
Yunnan specialty North Wind mushroom is blanched until tender, then tossed cold with a sauce of sweet and salty soy sauce flavored with Sichuan peppercorn and chili.
Ingredients
Instructions
Step 1
Use a small knife to scrape off the sediment from the North Wind mushrooms, rinse them clean with water, and set aside.
Step 2
Place the cleaned North Wind mushrooms in a wok, pour in the stock, blanch over heat until cooked through, then remove, drain, and let cool. Arrange on a plate and set aside.
Step 3
Place the wok over high heat, add the vegetable oil, add the Sichuan peppercorns and briefly stir-fry, then add the dried chilies and fry until crisp. Remove and discard the peppercorns and chilies, keeping only their fragrant flavor. Smash the scallion and ginger, place in a small bowl, and pour one spoonful of hot stock over them to extract the juice.
Step 4
In a large bowl, combine the sweet soy sauce, salty soy sauce, white sugar, vinegar, sesame oil, scallion-ginger juice, and chili-pepper oil, mix well, then pour evenly over the North Wind mushrooms on the plate.