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Home-style Stir-fried Sour Beans with Minced Meat

Name: Home-style Stir-fried Sour Beans with Minced Meat
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: chinese
Ingredients: long bean; rice washing water; Salt; minced pork belly; Garlic; diced bird's eye chili; oyster sauce; sugar

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10 Steps Total

schedulePrepare in advance

circleLong beans need to be pickled 5 to 7 days in advance to ferment120h

Preparation

00:00:08

Buy thin long beans and snap off the stem ends
Sun-dry the long beans for 1 to 2 hours until they become slightly soft

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Watch out

Pickled long beans require thin beans

thick beans are for stir-frying, not pickling

Ingredients:long bean (800 g)

Active Cooking

00:00:52

Pour 3200g of rice washing water into a pot
Add 150g of salt, turn on the heat and bring to a boil until the salt is completely dissolved

local_fire_departmentHigh heat to boil

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The salt water must be twice as salty as regular soup, otherwise the pickling will fail.

Ingredients:rice washing water (3200 g)Salt (150 g)

Tools:large pot

Preparation

00:01:22

Keep the long beans tied with rubber bands and arrange them neatly at the bottom of a large stainless steel pot

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Do not remove the rubber bands from the long beans, keeping them tied makes them easier to take out.

Ingredients:long bean

Tools:stainless steel pot

Active Cooking

00:01:36

warningStay safe

Be careful of burns when handling boiling hot water and avoid splashing when pouring.

Pour the boiling salted rice washing water directly into the pot, ensuring the water completely submerges all the long beans
Place a plate on top of the long beans to weigh them down, ensuring they remain fully soaked in the salt water without floating to the surface

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Long beans must never float to the surface

contact with air will cause mold and rot, so they must be weighed down with a plate

Ingredients:long bean

Tools:plate

Waiting Time

00:02:02

Move the pot with the covered plate to a cool place at home
Pickling takes 5 days in summer and 7 days in winter until fermentation is complete

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Must be kept in a cool place during pickling, and covered properly, otherwise exposed beans will rot.

Preparation

00:03:13

Take out the pickled long beans and rinse them thoroughly in the sink
Chop the cleaned pickled long beans into fine pieces like chives for dumplings

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Wash pickled beans only when ready to cook, do not freeze them afterwards or they will become soggy upon thawing.

Ingredients:long bean

Tools:knifecutting board

Active Cooking

00:04:00

Turn to medium-low heat, put 900g of fatty minced pork directly into an oil-free wok
Do not add oil, use the pork's own fat to stir-fry until the meat changes color, moisture evaporates, and oil renders out, then push the meat to the side of the wok

local_fire_departmentMedium-low heat

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The minced pork must be stir-fried until moisture evaporates and oil renders, otherwise there will be a strong gamey smell.

Ingredients:minced pork belly (900 g)

Tools:spatulawok

Active Cooking

00:04:45

Put 50g of minced garlic and 5g of minced chili into the wok to sauté
Stir-fry until rich garlic and spicy aromas release

local_fire_departmentMedium-low heat

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Control the heat when sautéing garlic and chili, otherwise high heat will burn the garlic and make it bitter.

Ingredients:Garlic (50 g)diced bird's eye chili (5 g)

Active Cooking

00:04:59

Add 100g of oyster sauce, 50g of sugar, and a little MSG or chicken bouillon powder
Stir-fry evenly until the minced pork is evenly coated with a savory glaze and releases aroma

local_fire_departmentMedium-low heat

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Watch out

Keep stirring after adding oyster sauce and sugar, otherwise the bottom of the wok will easily burn.

Ingredients:oyster sauce (100 g)sugar (50 g)

Active Cooking

00:05:36

Pour 800g of chopped pickled long beans into the wok
Quickly stir-fry evenly until the pickled beans and minced pork are fully combined and heated through, then remove from heat

local_fire_departmentMedium-low heat

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Watch out

Do not stir-fry the pickled beans for too long, otherwise they will lose their crunch and become soggy.

Ingredients:long bean (800 g)