Pork Yuk Sung (Chinese Lettuce Wraps)
Pork Yuk Sung (Chinese Lettuce Wraps) is a Chinese appetizer or side dish that features ground pork and diced vegetables stir-fried in a sweet soy sauce mixture, then wrapped in crisp lettuce leaves.
Ingredients
- 4-5 dried shiitake mushrooms
- 1 pound ground pork
- 1 ½ tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 dash ground white pepper
- 1 carrot diced
- ½ yellow onion diced
- ⅓ cup water chestnuts chopped
- 2 stalks scallions chopped
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil
- 1 head lettuce
Sauce
- 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon dark soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
Instructions
- Soak the dried shiitake mushrooms in warm water for about 30 minute or until they turn soft.
- While waiting for the mushrooms to soak, add cornstarch, salt, and white pepper to ground pork. Mix well, then allow to marinate for 20 minutes.
- Prepare the sauce by combining oyster sauce, water, soy sauce, rice vinegar, dark soy sauce, and brown sugar.
- Squeeze as much water as possible out of the shiitake mushrooms, then finely dice them.
- Heat cooking oil in a wok over medium-high heat. Stir-fry the ground pork until mostly cooked, then remove the ground pork from the wok. Set aside.
- Stir-fry the shiitake mushrooms, carrots and water chestnuts for 1 - 2 minutes.
- Add the onion and garlic to the wok, then stir-fry for another minute.
- Return the ground pork to the wok, then stir-fry to combine all the ingredients.
- Give the sauce a quick stir, then pour the sauce over the pork mixture. Stir-fry till most of the liquid from the sauce has evaporated.
- Turn off the heat, then add the chopped scallions to the wok. Stir again to combine the ingredients, then transfer to a serving bowl.
- Serve immediately with lettuce leaves.
Notes
You can use just about any type of lettuce but I recommend Romaine, butterhead, or iceberg lettuce for this recipe.
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 323kcalCarbohydrates: 12gProtein: 22gFat: 21gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 13gCholesterol: 73mgSodium: 628mgFiber: 3gSugar: 6g
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