Suan Ni Bai Rou (Sliced Pork with Garlic Sauce)
Japanese cold shabu-shabu is different! Transparent pork and magical garlic sauce
Description
Japanese 'Pork Shabu-shabu' briefly boils pre-sliced thin meat. The representative Sichuan appetizer 'Suan Ni Bai Rou' slowly boils a whole pork belly block, chills it, and then demands the chef slice it 'paper-thin'. Drenched in a magical sauce of mashed raw garlic and sweet-spicy soy. A dish of artisan skill.
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Recipe
Ingredients
- Pork belly(block)
- Garlic(massive)
- Cucumber
- Sweet reduced soy sauce
- Chili oil
- Sesame oil
- Scallion
Instructions
- [Authentic Recipe & Differences]
- (Pork Cooking) Boil a block of pork belly (skin-on is best) with scallion, ginger, Sichuan pepper, wine. Turn off the heat and let it cook through with 'residual heat' to ensure it stays incredibly juicy, not dry.
- Chill the pork completely to firm it up.
- [Artisan Knife Skill]: Slice the cold block into 'paper-thin, translucent sheets'.
- Shave cucumber thinly with a peeler and wrap the pork around it, or lay it underneath.
- [Special Garlic Sauce (Suan Ni)]: Ruthlessly smash massive raw garlic in a mortar until sticky (Suan Ni). Mix this with 'Fu Zhi Jiang You' (soy sauce reduced thick with rock sugar and spices), premium 'Homemade Chili Oil (Hong You)', and sesame oil.
- Drench the translucent pork heavily in this bright red sauce.
Learn more Spice, substitutes, tips
Key spices
Spicy sting of mashed raw garlic、Sweet depth of reduced soy
Substitutes at Japanese supermarkets
(Substitute with JP pre-sliced shabu pork and garlic sauce)
Pairing
Cold Beer / Baijiu
Trivia
[Trivia] 'Bai Rou' means unseasoned, white-boiled pork. 'Suan Ni' means mud-like mashed garlic. No matter how fatty the pork belly is, this sauce magically cuts the grease, allowing you to eat it endlessly. The absolute peak of Sichuan appetizers.
Eating tips & etiquette
[Unique Eating] Roll the paper-thin pork around the crisp cucumber, heavily mopping up the bright red garlic sauce pooled at the bottom. The sweetness of the pork fat and the violent punch of the garlic fuse perfectly in your mouth.
Allergen
Pork, Soybeans, Wheat (Soy sauce), Sesame