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Dinner · 20 min · 2 bowls

Garlic chili pork

Fish-fragrant without the fish: chili, garlic, a little vinegar. Loose ground pork.

The sheet · 2 bowls · 20 min

easy

Why tonight. Fish-fragrant without the fish: chili, garlic, a little vinegar. Loose ground pork.

What it needs

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  • pork
  • garlic
  • soy sauce
  • chili oil
  • scallion

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: rice vinegar.

Method

  1. The sauce is mixed in a bowl first — soy, vinegar, sugar, a little starch — so it goes in at once and thickens instantly.
  2. A stir-fry gives you no time to balance a sauce in the pan. Mixed ahead is the whole technique.
  3. Pork seared hard in one layer and left to catch before moving.
  4. Garlic and chili oil in for twenty seconds at the end, then the sauce, then off the heat.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

pork
The forgiving meat. Shoulder takes hours and rewards them, chops take minutes and punish you for one too many, and the fat is the flavor in both cases.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
soy sauce
Salt with a savory backbone, so it seasons and deepens in one move.
chili oil
Heat suspended in fat, which spreads it further than dry chili can.
scallion
Two ingredients on one stalk.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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