Red-Sauce Lamb Strips
A dish made by frying pre-cooked lamb strips, then coating them in a red sauce stir-fried with tomato sauce, peanuts, and other ingredients.
Ingredients
fat-lean cooked lamb
350g
egg yolk
1
tomato paste
100g
skinned roasted peanuts
50g
sugar
a pinch
cooked flour
a pinch
cornstarch slurry
to taste
neutral cooking oil
750g (about 100g consumed)
salt
to taste
Sichuan pepper water
to taste
MSG
to taste
scallion segments
to taste
ginger slices
to taste
garlic slices
to taste
Instructions
1
Prepare the ingredients
Cut the lamb into strips about 1.5 cun (≈4.5 cm) long and 3 fen (≈1 cm) thick. Season with salt, Sichuan pepper water, and MSG, massaging them in. Then coat evenly with egg yolk and cornstarch slurry. Finely chop the peanuts with a knife.
2
Fry the meat strips
Heat 1.5 jin (≈750g) of oil in a wok over medium heat until it reaches about 50% hot. Slide the meat strips in one by one and fry until firm, then remove and drain off the excess oil. Pull apart any strips that are stuck together and brush off any flour residue.
3
Make the red sauce
Leave a small amount of oil in the wok and heat it up. Add the scallions, ginger, and garlic and fry until fragrant, then remove and discard them. Stir-fry the cooked flour until yellow, then add the tomato paste, chopped peanuts, fresh broth, salt, Sichuan pepper water, and MSG, and stir into a thick paste. (If the color is not red enough, a small amount of red food coloring can be added.) The sauce...
