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Dinner Parties Ling ling's chilli pork with noodles and radish salad recipe

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Date Published:
19/12/2007

A Chinese noodle dish; done the way only Ling Ling could do it

Ingredients

For the chilli pork

  • 500 g leg of pork, without bone, but fat still on
  • 6 tbsp soy sauce (best is kim ve wong )
  • 2 tbsp sesame oil
  • 1 cm red chilli, finely chopped, (pips out)
  • 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
  • 1 tsp finely chopped garlic
  • 2 spring onions, chopped
  • 4 tbsp chopped coriander

For the noodles

  • 500 g fresh egg noodles
  • Handful of dried mushrooms (white back black fungus), soaked in warm water for 10 mins, then drained and cut in strips. (save water)
  • 1 bunch of green garlic cut in 2 cm long pieces
  • 2 celery sticks, washed, cut into diagonal strips
  • 2 large carrots, peeled, cut into diagonal strips
  • 250 g fresh bean sprouts
  • bunch coriander, washed and chopped
  • salt and pepper, soy sauce and sesame oil (all for seasoning)

For the white radish salad

  • 1 large white radish
  • 1 large carrot
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • about 2 tbsp rice vinegar (depends on size of radish)
  • half a bunch spring onions cut in 3 cm long fine strips
  • pepper
  • 3 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 2 tbsp sesame oil
  • ¼ tsp chilli oil

Method: How to make Ling Lings pork with fried noodles and white radish salad

1. For the chilli pork: Put the pork (tied) in pot and cover with cold water. Bring it slowly to boil (with lid).Turn heat down and let it simmer for about 30 minutes. Turn heat off, leave pot on hob for another two hours.

2. Take it out of the water, let it cool down and cut it in fine slices. (I leave some fat on a few slices, because the Chinese eat it with fat.) But you can also cut fat off.

3. Place it nicely on plate. Mix the other ingredients for the sauce and fill a little serving bowl.

4. The strips of pork are dipped into the sauce before eating.

5. For the noodles: Heat some oil in wok and start frying the mushrooms. After a short while you put in half of the green garlic. Give it a good stir.

6. A little later you put in carrots, celery, ΒΌ of the garlic green. Stir again!

7. Next add the beans with a little "mushroom water". Also add salt and pepper. Don't forget: stir!

8. Put noodles in with about 3 tablespoons of soy sauce and the rest of the garlic green. And of course: stir. Add a few drops of sesame oil and coriander, stir, then serve.

9. For the white radish salad: Peel radish and carrot and chop the ends off. With the peeler you "peel the whole raddish and carrot down". You will end up with mountain of fine strips.

10. Put in large bowl and sprinkle salt over, and mix well with your hands. Cover and leave for at least half an hour. Rinse with fresh water and drain.

11. Add the vinegar, spring onions and some pepper. Mix. Take a big serving plate and pile up like a mountain, as high as you can. Stick two chop sticks on top, because it looks good and you need them in a while.

12. Heat the oil in little sauce pan (you don't want it smoking too much, be careful). When your guests are sitting down, you bring the salad to the table.

13. Get the hot oil (in pot, not in serving dish!) and poor it over the "mountain"! It gives a delicious sizzling sound, really authentic. Take those chopsticks and mix the salad at the table.

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  1. THIS RECIPE IS AMAZING. I TRIED IT THE OTHER DAY. MY FAMILY LOVED IT!
    Posted by JADE on 06/10/2008 17:47:12
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