Stuffed Tomatoes with Brown Sauce

Name: Stuffed Tomatoes with Brown Sauce (Jang fan ch’ieh)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2 tablespoon soup stock; ¼ teaspoon black pepper powder; 2 teaspoons sugar; ½ cup oil; 1 tablespoon wine; 1 tablespoon water chestnuts (chopped); 1 tablespoon soy sauce; 1 teaspoon salt; ⅔ one pound ground pork (or beef); 8 tomatoes (round and hard); 3 oz. small shrimp (shelled); ⅔ one pound ground pork (or beef); 2 tablespoons soy sauce; ½ cup water

Jang fan ch’ieh

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

8 tomatoes (round and hard)
⅔ one pound ground pork (or beef)
3 oz.

Asia
Taiwan
Starter

Method

Chop the shrimp and ground pork finely. Put into a bowl. Add chopped water chestnuts, 1 tablespoon of wine, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, 2 tablespoon of soup stock and ¼ teaspoon of black pepper. Mix well.
Blanch the tomatoes. Cut each tomato through its center to form semi-spheres. Scoop out the seeds and pulp with a spoon. Sprinkle a little