Shredded Boiled Pork with Chinese Toon
Sichuan-style shredded pork with Chinese toon: a vivid red dish, richly savory with a gentle heat, and delicately aromatic.
Ingredients
Pork hind leg meat (with skin), scrubbed clean, boiled, and shredded
500 g
Chinese toon buds, washed, blanched, stems removed, and finely chopped
100 g
Premium soy sauce
20 g
White sugar
15 g
Chili oil
10 g
Sesame oil
5 g
MSG (monosodium glutamate)
1 g
Fine salt
2 g
Mashed garlic
10 g
Instructions
1
Preparing the pork
Scrub the pork clean, place in a soup pot and boil until cooked, remove and soak in hot broth for 10 minutes, take out and pat dry, cut into thin strips about 6 cm long, and arrange on a plate.
2
Preparing the toon
Wash the toon buds, place them in a bowl, steep briefly with boiling water, then remove and pull off the stem ends. Cut the buds into fine pieces.
3
Seasoning and plating
Combine the soy sauce, sugar, chili oil, sesame oil, MSG, garlic paste, and fine salt in a bowl and mix well into a sauce. Pour the sauce over the pork shreds, sprinkle the chopped toon on top, and serve.