Shredded Celery in Hot Meat Sauce

Name: Shredded Celery in Hot Meat Sauce (肉末炒芹菜)
Yield: Serves 3 to 4.
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon light soy sauce; 1 tablespoon dry sherry; ¼ teaspoon salt; 4 tablespoons oil; 1 large clove garlic, lightly smashed and peeled; ½ cup chicken or meat stock; 2 quarter -sized slices peeled ginger, minced; ¼ teaspoon sugar; ¼ pound ground pork; 4 cups shredded celery; 1 teaspoon sesame oil; 2 tablespoons hot bean paste

肉末炒芹菜

Preparation info

Serves
3 to 4
.

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Key to Chinese Cooking

By Irene Kuo

Published 1977

About

In this dish, the translucent celery is soft with a faint crunchiness left, and it is speckled with the tasty meat. The hot bean paste gives the clinging glaze a mellow, hot flavor.

Ingredients

4 cups shredded celery
¼ pound ground pork
4 tablespoons</

Asia
China
Side dish

Method

Scrape off any strings from the tough outer stalks of a bunch of celery. The easiest way to shred celery is to cut it while still in a whole bunch. If it is very long, cut off the narrow tips for another use. Then trim off the leaves and root end but don’t let the stalks separate. Cut the whole mass thin on the straight, in strips about