Authentic recipe for lotus soup pork slices

Pork slices in soup is a well-known dish with strong characteristics. To make this dish, you must first choose pork tenderloin, and then prepare some vegetables. There are many varieties of vegetables. For home cooking, you can choose appropriately, such as garlic sprouts, tomatoes, green beans, black fungus and other ingredients. If you can prepare broth, it will be more delicious. For home cooking, you can also prepare boiled water.

Authentic recipe for lotus soup pork slices

Ingredients: 200g pork tenderloin

Accessories: 100g garlic sprouts, 100g oyster mushrooms, 150g tomatoes, 50g green beans, 15g dried day lily, 10g black fungus, 4g coriander, 1 egg white, 30ml water starch

Seasoning: 5g salt, 3g chicken stock, 15ml balsamic vinegar, 10g pepper, 200ml vegetable oil, 1200ml broth

1. Soak the dried day lily and dried black fungus in warm water, wash and drain them for later use. Cut the garlic sprouts into 3cm long pieces. Cut tomatoes into slices. Tear the oyster mushrooms into thin strips by hand. Chop cilantro.

Cut the pork tenderloin into 3mm thick slices, add 1 tablespoon (15ml) of water starch and egg white, and mix well with your hands.

2. Heat the oil in a wok over medium heat. When the oil is slightly hot, place the mixed pork tenderloin into the warm oil and stir it briefly. Use chopsticks to stir it gently, then remove it immediately to drain the oil.

3. Leave a little oil in the wok, heat it over medium heat, add the garlic sprouts, oyster mushroom strips and tomato slices, stir-fry and add salt.

4. Add broth (or water) into the pot, turn to high heat and bring the soup to a boil. Then add green beans, soaked day lily, soaked black fungus and fried pork tenderloin slices.

5. When the soup boils again, add the remaining 1 tablespoon (15 ml) of water starch to make a thin starch. Add white pepper, balsamic vinegar and chicken stock. Sprinkle with chopped cilantro before serving.

Tips

1. The best meat for making soup slices is lean pork. If there is no tenderloin, you can also use lean pork from the hind hip.

2. The key to making the meat slices in the dish smooth and tender is the temperature and amount of oil used to slice the meat in the first step: the temperature of the oil should be kept at a low temperature of about 60-80 degrees, and the amount of oil should be able to cover all the meat slices.

3. The meat slices with soup are suitable for soup or dish, and can be made thinner or thicker according to your own dietary needs.

The seasoning of the soups and waters in Luoyang water banquet is inseparable from balsamic vinegar and white pepper powder. These two seasonings are indispensable, but the quantity can be slightly adjusted according to your taste.