Whenever I visited my parents’ friends who are from the Hakka area of Southern China, they always cook stuffed tofu (will try and share recipe later) and stuffed green peppers. I think this is not only a well-loved dish in Hakka, but also in many other areas in China! If you want to cook green peppers in new ways, try this simple and yummy recipe!
QUICK TAKEAWAYS
- improvise to add any ingredients in stuffing, changing pork to beef or shrimp are all fine!
- mixing final seasoning sauce in a bowl help get all stuffed green pepper season equally
- higher heat for meat side, lower heat for green pepper side
RECIPE
- 8 green peppers
- 50-80g ground pork
- 1tbsp soy sauce
- 1tsp oyster sauce
- 1tsp salt
- 1tsp white pepper powder
- 1tsp five-spice powder
- 1/2tbsp sesame oil
- 1 shallot, minced
- 1 scallion, minced
- 1tsp garlic, minced
- 1tsp ginger, minced
- sauce:
- 1/4 cup water
- 1tbsp soy sauce
- 1tsp dark soy sauce
- 1tsp sugar
- 1tsp oyster sauce
Step 1: in 50-80g ground pork, add 1/4 cup of water, stir in one direction till all water is absorbed. This step makes ground pork tender and moist.
- can also add ginger/scallion water 薑葱水 from water with chopped scallions, ginger slices, 1tsp Szechuan pepper, 1 star anise resting in it for10-15mins
Step 2: in ground pork, add in the following seasoning ingredients (can skip shallot, scallion, ginger and garlic):
- 1tbsp soy sauce
- 1tsp oyster sauce
- 1tsp salt
- 1tsp white pepper powder
- 1tsp five-spice powder
- 1/2tbsp sesame oil
- 1 shallot, minced
- 1 scallion, minced
- 1tsp garlic, minced
- 1tsp ginger, minced
Step 3: wash green peppers, slice in half and remove seeds
Step 4: stuff green peppers with seasoned ground pork
Step 5: over medium-high heat, add oil in pan cook green pepper with meat side facing down, till meat looks golden/brown
Step 6: flip stuffed green peppers so the green pepper side face down, lower to medium heat, cook till there is tiger skin (burnt spots)
Step 7: in a bowl, mix 1/4 cup water, 1tbsp soy sauce, 1tsp dark soy sauce, 1tsp oyster soy sauce and 1tsp sugar, pour in pan, cook over medium heat for 2mins with lid on
Step 8: take off lid, turn up heat till almost no sauce in pan; the remaining sauce will be used to pour on plated stuffed green peppers. Remove everything from pan and plate!
READY TO SERVE!!
Other dishes:
RESOURCES
Simple pork stuffing
With multiple ingredients in pork stuffing
Shrimp stuffing
