Soybean Sprouts with shredded red chili pepper and wood ear mushrooms

Introduction:

If you know Chinese, the language, then you will find that the names for the dishes on the menu of the restaurants in China are so beautiful that you don’t know what they are cooked of. Let’s take today’s dish – Coral Golden Hooks – as an example. What does it remind you of at first sight? You might have wondered, “What on earth does this name have to do with a dish?”

I cannot say that this is good or bad. But it is part of the Chinese culture. I guess the reason is that people thought highly of educated people before in the past because they are very few. If you have a beautiful and impressive name, it would indicate that you are one of them.

Ingredients:

Soybean sprouts: 350 g

Red chili pepper: 5 g (or one)

Wood ear mushrooms: 10 g

Seasonings:

Sichuan pepper: 10 grains

Salt: 4 g

White sugar: 5 g

Soy sauce: 10 g

Cooking Wine: 15 g

Vinegar: 15 g

Scallion: 1 g

Ginger: 1 g

Vegetable oil: 50 g

Preparation Work:

1. Rinse the red chili pepper clean and shred it;

2. Soften the dried wood ear mushrooms by immerse them into lukewarm water, then take them out of the water and shred them;

3. Shred the scallion and the ginger;

Cooking Steps:

1. Wash the soybean sprouts clean and remove the roots, and immerse them into boiling water; Strain them out and put onto a plate when they are done;

2. Mix the soy sauce, cooking wine, vinegar, white sugar and salt together into a liquid;

3. Preheat the vegetable oil in the wok up to 50% hot;

4. Drop the Sichuan pepper into the oil and strain them out when they become gold in color;

5. Drop the red pepper shreds, scallion shreds and ginger shreds into the wok;

6. Add the wood ear mushroom shreds and the seasoning liquid in, and boil it;

7. Spray the liquid onto the soybean sprouts when the liquid is boiling.

Cooking Tips:

By now, you should have realized why this dish is named “Coral Golden Hooks”. “Coral”, coming from the wood ear mushroom, is something very rare and valuable in the heart of the Chinese people. Soybean sprouts have a shape of hooks. The oil gives the golden color to the whole dish.

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