Stranger Foods
Ants climbing trees
Serves
4
50 mins
50 mins
Total
25 mins
Prep
25 mins
Cook
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Ingredients
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Metric
Imperial
125
g
minced pork
½
tsp
light soy sauce
½
tsp
Shaoxing rice wine
½
tsp
toasted sesame oil
125
g
fine rice noodles
1
tbsp
sunflower oil
1
clove
garlic
,
finely chopped
2½
cm piece
fresh root ginger
,
peeled and finely chopped
2
spring onions
,
finely chopped, green parts reserved and sliced
1
tsp
chilli bean paste
1
tbsp
chopped coriander leaves
The Shaoxing Wine Sauce
1
tbsp
light soy sauce
1
tbsp
Shaoxing rice wine
½
tsp
salt
½
tsp
sugar
½
tsp
toasted sesame oil
240
ml
chicken stock
Instructions
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Mix the
pork
with the
soy sauce
,
rice wine
and
sesame oil
. Soak the
noodles
in hot water for
10
minutes
until limp, then drain.
Heat a wok over a high heat and add the
oil
. Add the
garlic
and
ginger
and fry for
10
seconds
. Add the
pork
and stir-fry, mashing and separating it. It needs to brown and this should take around
10
minutes
. Now add the
spring onions
and
chilli paste
and stir-fry for a few seconds.
Meanwhile, make the sauce by combining all the sauce ingredients. Now pour the sauce into the meat and toss the ingredients together well.
Add the
noodles
to the meat sauce mix and return the dish to a medium-high heat. It needs to boil. Reduce the heat to low and cook for a further
5
minutes
until the
noodles
become soft and infused with flavour. most of the liquid will need to evaporate.
Serve sprinkled with the sliced spring onion greens and coriander leaves.
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