Twice Cooked Chile Pork Food

TWICE-COOKED PORK

Steps:

• Place pork, 6 scallions, ginger and salt in large pot. Add water to cover. Bring to a boil, cover, and simmer 1 1/2 to 2 hours, until tender. Remove meat, and discard liquid. When pork has cooled, remove skin and any bones. Cut meat in half crosswise, then slice it thinly lengthwise.
• Slice remaining scallions lengthwise, then in 3-inch pieces.
• Heat oil in wok or skillet. When very hot, add pork and stir-fry until lightly browned, 6 to 8 minutes. Pour off excess oil and fat. Add garlic and ginger, and stir-fry 10 seconds. Add scallions, and stir-fry 2 minutes. Add chili paste, rice wine, soy sauce, sugar and Sichuan pepper, and stir-fry another minute. Scatter with cilantro and serve.

TWICE-COOKED PORK TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• Sprinkle meat with salt and pepper. Put a large skillet over medium-high heat; a minute later add 2 tablespoons butter and/or oil. When butter foam subsides or oil dimples, add meat (curve it into skillet if necessary). Brown it well on all sides, for a total of 4 to 6 minutes. Turn off heat, remove meat from pan, and let it sit on a board. When skillet has cooled a bit, proceed.
• Cut meat into inch-thick slices. Once again turn heat to medium-high, add remaining butter and/or oil and, when it's hot, add pork slices to pan. Brown on each side, about 2 or 3 minutes each. Turn heat to low and remove meat to a warm platter.
• Add 1/2 cup water to pan, turn heat to high, and cook, stirring and scraping, for a minute. Lower heat slightly, add cream and cook until slightly thickened. Stir in mustard, lemon juice or Calvados, if you're using them, then taste and adjust seasoning. Serve meat with sauce spooned on top, garnished, if you like, with parsley.

TWICE-COOKED PORK (HUI GUO ROU)

Steps:

• Place the pork in a large saucepan and cover with water; bring to the boil.
• When it is boiling, add the mirin and ginger.
• Cook the pork for 20 minutes, then remove from the water and allow to cool (discard the other contents of the pan).
• When the pork is cool enough to handle, slice across the grain as thinly as possible in pieces about 2 inches long.
• Clean the leek and slice in half lengthwise, then slice in 1 inch pieces.
• Clean the bell pepper, remove seeds, and chop in pieces similar in size to the leek.
• Heat a wok over medium-high to high heat.
• Add the oil, and when it is hot, add the flattened garlic clove.
• Fry the garlic until it is very brown, then remove it and discard.
• Add the chopped leek to the wok, and cook for 1 minute, stirring all the while.
• Add the bell pepper pieces, and cook for about 30 seconds, stirring continuously.
• Push the vegetables to the side of the wok and add the sambal oelek in the middle; heat briefly.
• Add the soybean paste, soy sauce, and the pork slices, mixing all well and insuring the pork is covered with all the spicy mixture.
• Cook only for another 1-2 minutes, until everything is heated through.

TWICE-COOKED PORK

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, place pork, water, soy sauce, slice of ginger, and star anise, and cook, uncovered, over medium heat, for 1 hour.
• Remove pork from liquid and cool thorughly; then slice into thin medallions.
• Mix together miso, sriracha, sherry, vinegar, and sugar, set aside.
• Stir-fry garlic, ginger, and red peppers in wok with oil over high heat for a few seconds, then add onions and pork slices, and cook for about 1 minute.
• Add the bell peppers and cook a few minutes more until the peppers are crisp-tender.
• Add reserved miso sauce mixture and cook until heated through.
• Serve with steamed hot rice.