Celtuce Stir-Fry with Pork and Pepper l Chinese Easy Cooking Recipe l 莴笋炒肉 Wo Sun Chao Rou

Описание: Celtuce, also called Chinese lettuce, celery lettuce or stem lettuce, is a cultivar of lettuce grown primarily for its thick stem or its leaves. It is especially popular in China. You will find this vegetable in a lot of Sichuan dishes as it is super versatile, and can be eaten raw and cooked, pickled, roasted and even grilled.

Ask for Wo Sun 莴笋 (its Chinese name) in Asian grocery stores.
Or you can buy it from online specialist grocers such as Eatoo: https://www.eatoo.co.uk/

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*Shaoxing Wine:
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*Chinese light soy sauce:
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🌶Celtuce Stir-Fry with Pork and Pepper Recipe:
🌶Spice Level: 0

*Ingredients*
• 200g pork shoulder or loin meat, thinly sliced
• 2 celtuce stems (Wo Sun), thinly sliced into a diamond shape
• 1 red pointy pepper, thinly sliced into a diamond shape
• 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
• 1 piece (2cm) of ginger, thinly sliced
• 1 spring onion, white part roughly chopped

*Seasoning*
• 1 tbsp Chinese Shaoxing cooking wine
• 1 tsb salt
• 1 portion of cornflour slurry (¼ tsp vs. 2 tsp water)
• 1 tbsp light soy sauce

*Method*
Preparation (16 mins):
1. Remove the skin of the celtuce stems and cut into thin diamond slices
2. Put the celtuce slices in a bowl and marinate with ¼ tsp salt to draw out the water, set aside for 5 mins
3. Thinly slice the pork meat and marinate it using:
• 1 tbsp Chinese cooking wine
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 portion of cornflour slurry (¼ tsp vs. 2 tsp water) (I always make the slurry using a 1:4 ratio)
4. Set the meat aside to marinate for 5 mins and in the meantime slice the pepper into a diamond shape
5. Chop the ginger, garlic cloves and spring onion as described above
6. Rinse the celtuce slices and dry out any excessive water

Cooking (6-7 mins):
1. Heat up the wok to medium heat (till wok is warm) and then add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil.
2. Turn the heat to low and add in the chopped ginger, garlic and spring onion. Stir and cook for roughly 30 secs until you can smell their fragrance.
3. Tip in the marinated pork and cook for 2 mins.
4. Turn the heat up to maximum and toss in the pepper first, cook for 1 minute before adding the celtuce slices and continue to cook on high heat for 2 minutes
5. Adjust the seasoning and colour by adding 1 tbsp of light soy sauce and ½ tsp salt