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Yu Xiang Rou Si (Fish-Fragrant Pork Shreds)

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Yu Xiang Rou Si (Fish-Fragrant Pork Shreds) is Chinese home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves
3

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Soak the dried wood ear in hot water 20 minutes until softened, then slice into thin shreds along with the bamboo shoots.

  2. Cut the pork into thin shreds and toss with half the soy sauce and the cornstarch.

  3. Whisk the remaining soy sauce with the rice vinegar and sugar to make the sauce.

  4. Heat the oil in a wok over high heat and stir-fry the pork until just cooked, about 2 minutes, then push to the side.

  5. Add the doubanjiang, garlic and ginger and stir-fry 30 seconds until fragrant and the oil turns red.

  6. Add the wood ear and bamboo shoots and stir-fry 2 minutes, then pour in the sauce and toss everything together for 1 minute.

  7. Scatter with scallions and serve; the flavor is sweet, sour and savory with very little actual heat.

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Serve it with

A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Yu Xiang Rou Si (Fish-Fragrant Pork Shreds), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Yu Xiang Rou Si (Fish-Fragrant Pork Shreds) carries gluten and soy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Yu Xiang Rou Si (Fish-Fragrant Pork Shreds)
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten Yes Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee)
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy Yes Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee)
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
330 kcal
Protein
23 g
Carbs
6 g
Fat
24 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
4 g
Sodium
570 mg
Saturated fat
5 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Yu Xiang Rou Si (Fish-Fragrant Pork Shreds) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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