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Preparation
15 minutes
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Cooking
15 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Stir-fried pork with pickled mustard greens (sour cabbage) is a stir-fry dish that is rustic with rich and delicious flavors, loved by many. Today, let’s join TasteVN in cooking this dish to make your family meal more interesting and appealing!
Ingredients for Stir-fried Pork with Pickled Mustard Greens (Sour Cabbage) Serves 4
Pork 300 gr (lean meat) Pickled mustard greens 400 gr (sour cabbage) Cooking oil 2 tablespoons Common seasoning a little (salt/ sugar/ monosodium glutamate/ seasoning powder/ ground pepper)
How to Choose Fresh Ingredients
How to choose fresh pork
- About color: Good pork will be light pink or light red, with the fat being translucent white with a slight ivory hue. Avoid choosing parts of meat that have unusual colors, pale colors, or very dark colors.
- About smell: Good meat will have a distinctive aroma that is not unpleasant, with no fishy or pungent odor.
- About elasticity: Press the piece of meat with your hand; if it is springy, firm, not too hard or mushy, and no slimy liquid comes out, then it can be chosen.
- About fat and skin: Choose pieces of pork with a distinct meat structure, with fat that is tightly attached, but should be difficult to separate when touched.
How to choose and buy delicious, quality sour vegetables (fermented vegetables)
- Delicious sour vegetables have a natural fermented smell, and the leaves maintain a beautiful greenish-yellow color.
- When tasting (if possible), the cabbage should be crunchy and have a mild sour taste.
- Choose cabbage bundles with large leaf stems, free from pests or bruising, with no strange odors, and the pickling brine should be clear, without mold.
- Avoid selecting cabbages that are wilted, dark yellow, or overly green.
- It is advisable to buy from reputable stores with packaging to ensure shelf life and the source of the pickled vegetables.
- Additionally, to ensure the quality of pickled vegetables, you can make sour vegetables at home with a simple recipe shared by TasteVN.
How to prepare Stir-fried Pork with Sour Vegetables (Fermented Vegetables)
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Prepare the pork
First, wash the pork with water, remove any unappetizing fat, and then rub a little salt directly onto the meat. After that, rinse it several times with clean water and let it drain, then cut it into small bite-sized pieces.
Tips to prepare pork without a foul smell:- Method 1: Blanch the pork in boiling water for about 3 minutes, then rinse the meat with cold water.
- Method 2: Wash the pork with water, then soak it in alcohol for about 15 minutes, and rinse it again with water.
- Method 3: Soak the pork in diluted salt water for about 5 minutes, then rinse several times with clean water.
See details: Effective methods to remove the smell of pork (pig meat)
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Prepare the pickled mustard greens
After buying, wash the pickled mustard greens thoroughly with water and squeeze dry 3 – 4 times to reduce the saltiness and sourness, then let them drain.
Once the pickled mustard greens are mostly dry, cut them into small, bite-sized pieces.
Tip: To ensure that the pickled mustard greens are crispy and flavorful without being too salty or sour when stir-frying, make sure to squeeze them very well during the final rinse to remove as much water as possible!
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Sauté sour cabbage with pork
Place a pan on the stove and add 2 tablespoons of oil into the pan and heat over medium heat. Wait for the oil to get hot, then add the pork along with the seasoning mixture including: 1/2 teaspoon of ground pepper, 1.5 tablespoons of sugar, 2 teaspoons of monosodium glutamate, 1 teaspoon of seasoning powder, and 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
Next, stir continuously for about 5 minutes until the pork is cooked and firm, then add all the sour cabbage and sauté over medium heat for about 5 minutes until the sour cabbage is cooked and absorbs the seasoning.
Finally, adjust the seasoning to suit your taste and then turn off the heat.
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Final Product
The stir-fried pork with pickled mustard greens looks very attractive with the dark green color of the mustard greens. The distinctive aroma of the pickled mustard greens combined with the subtle spiciness of ground pepper is truly stimulating.
When enjoying, you will feel each crunchy piece of pickled mustard greens, with a light sour taste, blending with the soft, slightly chewy piece of meat, which is incredibly delicious. This dish is best served with hot rice!
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Stir-fried Pork with Pickled Mustard Greens will definitely be a flavorful dish that the whole family will love. We hope that with the recipe shared by TasteVN, you will successfully make this dish and have really delicious meals.
*Source of the recipe and images shared from Facebook: Xuan Bee
