Maggie Zhu

Tiger Skin Peppers

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Preparation info
  • Yield

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      30 min

Appears in
Chinese Homestyle: Everyday Plant-Based Recipes for Takeout, Dim Sum, Noodles, and More
Chinese Homestyle

By Maggie Zhu

Published 2022

  • About

For this dish, Anaheim peppers are panfried until blistered and tender and then cooked in a sour, savory sauce. The finished dish is hot, flavorful, and appetizing, and will add a nice sizzle to your dinner table. When the peppers are perfectly blistered on a grill, black stripes form that look like tiger patterns, hence the name.

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 3 tablespoons Chinkiang vinegar
  • 1

Method

  1. In a small bowl, combine the soy sauce, vinegar, and sugar for the sauce and stir to mix well.
  2. In a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil over medium heat. Add the peppers and cook, stirring and flipping occasionally, until the peppers turn tender and yellowish green in color and their skin is blistered, about 15 minutes. Reduce the heat to low if the ski