Sweet bean sauce pork 京醬肉絲

Ever since the short visit to China town, I have this craving of this dish for unknown reasons. I don't think (maybe just don't remember) my mom ever made this dish at home and it's not something you'd order when you eat out in Taiwan. I think my memory about this dish started from the three years in China. We fell in love with North-east food in China(東北菜). And the first time, I tried wrap this dish in Tofu skin and it tasted yummy! Instead of searching this dish in restaurants in China town, I decided to give it a try to make it at home.

To represent the dish by only memories wouldn't be a wise idea. So I searched the 1300 recipes website from Taiwan and went to T&T supermarket to find the most similar materials & tofu skin. I found the sauce I need and tofu skin but the problem is the meat. Usually they use the ground pork that is in long shape but not totally grounded as hamburger meat. I couldn't find it in the supermarket nearby so instead I used pork tenderloin to cut it into small pieces. (not small enough though)

Ingredients you'll need:

Pork 400g

Spring Onion 200g (about 3-4)

1 tbs vegetable oil (backing spray will do, too. Save the amount of oil you're using)

Tofu skin (optional, you can use rice or plain chinese noodles to go with it)

Sauce(A)

Soy sause 2 tbs

Rice wine 2 tsp

Egg white 2 tbs

Potato powder 2 tbs

Sauce(B)

Sweet bean sauce 4 tbs

Catchup 2 tbs

Soy sause 2tsp

Sugar a pinch

Steps:

-Cut the pork to thin stick shape about 2.5 inches long

-Add the Sauce(A) in the pork sticks, mix well and put it in the fridge for 15 mins

(During the 15mins)

-Cut the spring onion into small stick size (as thin as you could, refer to the picture) and spread them around on a large plate equally for later use

-Boil the tofu skin in boiling water for 5mins, get it out of the water and cool it aside for later use

(15mins later)

-In a frying pan, add vegetable oil, medium high fire to warm up the oil

-Pour the pork sticks in when the oil is warm enough (about 1-2mins)

-Frying till the surface is white (90% done is okay for this moment)

-Remove the pork from the frying pan & turn down the fire to medium-small(Or you may use another frying pan)

-Pour Sauce(B) in the frying pan, fry it till the smell comes out (not long, about 2-3mins, main idea is not burn the sauce but warm it up and fry a bit to add flavour)

-Then add the pork sticks back in, mix well with the sauce and till the pork is cooked

-Place the pork on the large plate on top of the spring onion

-Serve with the tofu skin

Way to eat:

-Put 1 tofu skin on palm, put some spring onion on then pork, wrap it around