Fainting Zucchini Pork
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This is a very simple and healthy dish made by layering zucchini and bite-sized pork in a frying pan and steaming them in sake. By drizzling a special spicy ponzu sesame sauce over the top, you get a refreshing yet rich flavor that will make it impossible to stop eating rice or drinking sake.
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🍳 Cooking Flow
Slice the zucchini into rounds less than 1cm thick. → Massage salt, potato starch, and sake into the bite-sized pork. → Layer the zucchini and pork alternately in a circular pattern in a frying pan. → Drizzle with sake, cover, and steam over medium-low heat for about 8 minutes. → Make a sauce by mixing soy sauce, ponzu, doubanjiang, Ajinomoto, and ground sesame seeds, then drizzle it over the cooked dish.
Cooking Steps
Brief Cooking Order
Slice the zucchini into rounds less than 1cm thick. → Massage salt, potato starch, and sake into the bite-sized pork. → Layer the zucchini and pork alternately in a circular pattern in a frying pan. → Drizzle with sake, cover, and steam over medium-low heat for about 8 minutes. → Make a sauce by mixing soy sauce, ponzu, doubanjiang, Ajinomoto, and ground sesame seeds, then drizzle it over the cooked dish.
Introduction
This is a very simple and healthy dish made by layering zucchini and bite-sized pork in a frying pan and steaming them in sake. By drizzling a special spicy ponzu sesame sauce over the top, you get a refreshing yet rich flavor that will make it impossible to stop eating rice or drinking sake.
Step 1
Trim both ends of the zucchini (1 piece) and slice into rounds less than 1cm thick.
Step 2
Add salt (2 pinches), potato starch (2.5 teaspoons), and sake (1 tablespoon) to the pork and massage well by hand.
Step 3
In a cold frying pan, arrange the sliced zucchini and the pork (flattened into bite-sized pieces) in an alternating, overlapping circular pattern. Place any leftover pork in the center gap.
Step 4
Drizzle sake (1 tablespoon) over the entire pan, cover, and heat over medium heat. Once it starts to boil and sizzle, reduce to medium-low heat and steam for about 8 minutes.
Step 5
While steaming, make the sauce. In a small bowl, mix the soy sauce (2 tablespoons), ponzu (1 tablespoon), doubanjiang (just under 1 teaspoon), Ajinomoto (4 dashes), and ground sesame seeds (1 tablespoon) until well combined.
Ingredients List
Important Notes
💡 By coating the pork in potato starch before steaming, the meat retains its moisture, making even inexpensive cuts of pork surprisingly moist and tender.
💡 Zucchini can be eaten raw, so there is no need to cook it until mushy. An 8-minute steaming time provides a wonderful, tender-crisp texture.
⚠️ The recipe recommends using 'authentic ponzu' (citrus juice-based, without soy sauce) for the sauce, but you can substitute with lemon juice if unavailable.
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