Mixed Smoked Meats

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
China: A Cookbook

By Terry Tan

Published 2020

  • About

Smoking foods is a particular Sichuan style of cuisine, where the meats absorb the flavour from tea leaves along with a variety of other smoking materials. In rural Sichuan, meats will be smoked over bamboo leaves, pine needles, rice straw or even peanut husks and sawdust from aromatic woods, but it is the type of tea that is added that will really determine the final flavour. Semi-fermented oolong tea from the Fujian province gives a delicious smokiness, or you can use jasmine tea for a mu