Name: Pork Zha Jiang (炸酱)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 10 ounces (280 g) ground pork belly, or ground pork with 30% fat; 4 green onions, trimmed and sliced; 3 tablespoons (45 ml) vegetable oil, divided; ¼ cup (60 ml) Shaoxing cooking wine; 6 tablespoons (90 ml) sweet flour sauce; 1-inch (2.5 cm) piece fresh ginger, peeled and finely chopped; 1 teaspoon sugar; 1 Persian cucumber, cut into thin matchsticks (optional)

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

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Xi'an Famous Foods

By Jason Wang

Published 2020

About

I got fat off this dish in middle school. I mean, how could you not? This sweet-savory meat sauce is a staple over noodles, universally beloved across eastern Asia; both Korean and Japanese cuisines have variations of this funky black-brown sauce.

The most important ingredient required for our version of zha jiang mian is the sweet flour sauce (or tian mian jiang), a thick, salty condiment with a roasty backbone, usually served with Peking duck. In Michigan, we could only occasional