Quick & Easy Chinese Salt and Pepper Pork
Chinese Salt and Pepper Pork. Delicious pork strips shallow fried and seasoned in a flavourful aromatic salt and pepper seasoning. Ready in 30 minutes!
Ingredients
- 1.65 lb boneless pork shoulder well marbled
- 2 large red chili pepper sliced
- 1 large green chilli sliced
- 2 green onions finely sliced
- 1 teaspoon ginger sliced with skin on
- 1 teaspoon white granulated sugar or sub with cane sugar
- ¼ cup vegetable oil or any neutral oil for frying pork
- 1 tablespoon Shaoxing Cooking Wine or sub with Dry sherry wine
- salt to taste
- black pepper to taste
Pork Marinade
- 2 tablespoon Shaoxing Cooking Wine or sub with Dry sherry wine
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- ½ cup cornstarch or potato starch
Instructions
- Slice pork into 1-inch wide strips that are 2 inches long. Then tenderize pork strips with a meat tenderizer or meat mallet until it’s thin, about 0.25 to 0.5 inches thick. Transfer to a large mixing bowl.
- Season the pork strips with pork marinade ingredients starting with shaoxing wine, salt and black pepper. Give it a mix and then coat the pork strips with cornstarch. You will have leftover cornstarch and that’s normal. Make sure every crevice is coated in the starch to ensure maximum crispiness.
- Heat vegetable oil in a large pan on medium-high heat. Once the oil is hot, carefully lower a small batch of the marinated pork. Do not overcrowd your pan. Fry pork on both sides until golden crispy and no longer pink inside, between 6-10 minutes. Remove and transfer fried pork to a wire rack or paper towel lined plate to remove excess oil.
- Reserve 1 teaspoon of oil in the pan, reduce to medium heat and fry red chilli, green chilli, green onion, ginger, and sugar. Deglaze with shaoxing wine. Stir fry for 10 seconds.
- Quickly toss in cooked pork strips for 20 seconds. Season with salt and black pepper to taste. Remove off heat and serve hot.
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Nutrition
Calories: 397kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 31g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 77mg | Sodium: 416mg | Potassium: 364mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 166IU | Vitamin C: 21mg | Calcium: 21mg | Iron: 1mg