Blistered String Beans with Pork
- 3 cups vegetable oil
- 2 pounds green beans
- 3/4 pound ground pork
- 1/2 tablespoon shrimp dried
- 4 tablespoons sherry dry
- 2 tablespoons szechuan mustard green
- 1/4 cup chicken broth
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce, tamari
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- Rinse the beans and break off the ends; dry them thoroughly to reduce spattering during deep-frying.
- Rinse and mince the Szechuan mustard green.
- Wash the dried shrimp and soak them in sherry for 1 hour.
- Drain them, reserving the sherry.
- Mince the shrimp.
- Mix the sherry from the shrimp with the chicken broth, water, soy sauce and sesame oil.
- Reserve.
- Heat the oil in a wok (or deep pan) until a bamboo chopstick sizzles when put into the oil.
- Deep fry the beans in 5 or 6 batches, until they develop brown blisters and shrivel slightly.
- Remove them batch by batch; drain each batch and keep them warm while you remove all but 2 tablespoon oil from the pan.
- Heat the 2 tablespoon of oil until very hot and add the ground pork.
- Stir fry until it is broken up into very small pieces and no longer is pink.
- Add the minced shrimp and Szechuan mustard green.
- Stir for 30 seconds.
- Add the string beans and stir to mix well for about 15 seconds.
- Add the liquid ingredients, toss until the liquid is reduced to 2 tablespoons.
- Serve on a warmed platter.
vegetable oil, green beans, ground pork, shrimp, sherry dry, szechuan mustard, chicken broth, water, soy sauce, sesame oil
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/blistered-string-beans-pork-5438 (may not work)