Crispy Sesame Pork Slices is one of the most delicious dishes that I have cooked. It was highly praised by my family for the crispiness and taste of the pork slices. Instead of rice and wheat flours that I usually use, this time I have used potato starch to improve the crispiness of the pork slices. The most fantastic part is that the pork slices did not lose their crispiness when they were coated with the sauce.
Ingredients:
- 200 g lean pork
- Seasoning:
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- Potato starch, enough to coat the pork slices
- Cooking oil for deep-frying
- Sauce:
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 2 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 3 tbsp sesame seed, toasted till golden brown
Methtod:
- Wash and slice the lean pork as thinly as possible. (Always slice across the grain.)
- Season the pork slices with salt and pepper for about half an hour.
- Heat up a wok with cooking oil.
- Coat the pork slices with potato starch. Take a piece of the slice, shake off excess potato starch and lower it into the oil. Repeat this until all the pork slices are in the wok.
- Fry the slices till golden brown and crispy.
- Remove them from the wok onto a plate lined with kitchen towel and set them aside.
- Mix water, light and dark soy sauce in a small bowl. Add the salt and pepper into the bowl and stir. Set it aside
- Remove oil from the wok which we used to deep fry the pork slices, leaving 1 tbsp behind.
- Add the sesame oil to it.
- Add the garlic and saute till they they are fragrant.
- Pour the sauce mixture to the wok and let it boil. (Sauce should not be too watery.)
- Once the sauce is boiling, add the deep-fried pork slices to it.
- Give it a quick stir so that the pork slices are coated with the sauce.
- Turn off the heat and remove the pork slices onto a serving place.
- Sprinkle toasted sesame seeds onto the pork slices.
- Serve with rice.