Ants Climbing Up a Tree
- 1 pound pork shoulder
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce, tamari light
- 2 tablespoons rice wine
- 1 teaspoon ginger grated
- 6 each scallions, spring or green onions sliced
- 1 cup cabbage
- 1 ounce mushrooms
- 4 cups vegetable oil
- 1 package noodles
- 2 each garlic cloves
- 1 tablespoon hot bean sauce
- Bone and finely chop the pork.
- Marinate the pork in the soy, wine and ginger for about 15 minutes.
- Slice the green onions.
- Finely chop the cabbage and mushrooms, reserving the soaking water from the mushrooms.
- Heat the oil in a wok until it is just beginning to smoke.
- Use good ventilation in your kitchen for this one!
- Open the noodle package and undo them a bit.
- Drop into the hot fat in small batches.
- They will immediately puff up into wonderful white crunchy noodles.
- Turn quickly to be sure that all of them are cooked.
- Remove from the pan and drain on paper towels.
- Be very careful with this.
- You could burn yourself.
- Set the noodles aside.
- Heat another wok or frying pan and add 1 Tablespoon of the peanut oil.
- Add the chopped garlic and toss for a moment.
- Add the meat and marinade and stir fry, mixing it about, until the meat is tender but not dry, about 3 minutes on high heat.
- Remove the meat mixture and add the vegetables to the wok.
- Stir fry over high heat for 3 more minutes.
- Return the meat to the pan and add the hot bean sauce, sugar and black pepper.
- Stir fry for 1 minute and then add the cornstarch dissolved in the water.
- Stir until the sauce thickens.
- If you have too little sauce, add a bit of the water in which you have soaked the mushrooms.
- Add the sesame oil and stir.
- Place the fried noodles on a large platter and pour the meat and vegetable mixture over the noodles.
- Toss at the table in front of your guests.
- Each person then takes a bit of noodle and meat sauce and places it in the center of a lettuce leaf.
- Roll it up like a burrito and enjoy.
pork shoulder, soy sauce, rice wine, ginger grated, scallions, cabbage, mushrooms, vegetable oil, noodles, garlic, hot bean sauce
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/ants-climbing-up-tree-46056 (may not work)