DA TANG SZECHUAN RECIPES

Steps:

• Prepare the pork, marinate pork shreds with light soy sauce, sugar, salt and cornstarch. Mix well.
• In a wok, add carrots, bamboo shoots, wood ear mushroom, shiitake mushroom and ginger shreds. Add chicken stock, bring to a boiling and then simmer for 15 minutes.
• Add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sugar, and salt. Continue cooking for 2 minutes.
• Then place shredded tofu in. Then place pork shreds in and gently stir by chopstick when the content boils again.
• Stir the starch water once and then place the starch water in the soup. Heat to thicken.
• Drizzle egg liquid in. If you want smaller flowers, stirring at a faster speed. Or for larger flowers, stir roughly.
• Place black vinegar and white ground pepper in. Turn off fire immediately.
• Add some extra aroma by placing chopped green onion and coriander. Drizzle some sesame oil and serve hot.

Steps:

• Dice the chicken breast into ½ inch pieces, dip each piece in egg white, then in cornstarch mixed with a pinch of salt. Fry the chicken pieces in a wok with heated oil until golden brown. Drain the fried pieces of chicken and set aside.
• Fry the cashew nuts in moderately-hot oil until lightly brown and crunchy. Canned or packed cashew nuts will do.
• Slice the long dried peppers into small circumferential pieces, and chop the hot red peppers into finer pieces.
• In a separate small bowl, mix the soy sauce, salt, sugar, vinegar, and sesame oil.
• Heat 4 tablespoons of oil in a wok, add the chopped garlic, all of the sliced red peppers, the spring onions. ~Stir fry for 3 minutes.
• Add the chicken and the cashew nuts.
• Pour the contents of the small bowl containing the mixed sauce – soy sauce, sesame oil, etc. (step number 4). Add the rice wine.
• Add 3 tablespoons of the Hoisin sauce, and stir fry over high heat for another 2 minutes, then serve.