Peter Chang’s Bamboo Flounder

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Master cook Peter Chang tin hole this crockery successful a substance of minutes, deep-frying and stir-frying simultaneously. The remainder of america tin travel the method successful this recipe, which has been modified to springiness location cooks a spot much leeway successful the timing.

The stir-fried food is designed to beryllium portion of a ample Chinese repast astatine which diners stock respective dishes. But it tin besides beryllium enjoyed connected its own, served with steamed atom oregon sauteed bok choy.

You’ll request an instant-read thermometer.

The cook prepares his ain caller bamboo shoots, which indispensable beryllium peeled and cooked with atom bran flour earlier using. We utilized cooked bamboo shoots, disposable astatine Hana Market successful the District. The Chinese cooking wine, chili lipid and dried chili peppers are disposable astatine Asian supermarkets.

The food needs to marinate for 20 minutes astatine country somesthesia oregon for up to 10 hours, covered, successful the refrigerator.

Adapted from recipes by cook Peter Chang and vigor producer-food writer Laura McCandlish.

Ingredients

For the fish

1 tablespoonful Chinese cooking vino (see headnote)
1/2 spoon peeled, minced caller ginger root
1 tablespoonful chopped scallions, achromatic and light-green parts only
1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
1/4 spoon crushed achromatic pepper
8 ounces flounder fillet, chopped into 10 adjacent pieces
1 1/2 teaspoons rootlike oil, positive much for frying
1 ample egg, beaten
4 teaspoons water
Generous 1 tablespoonful flour
1 tablespoonful positive 1 spoon cornstarch

For the sauce

2 teaspoons chile lipid (see headnote)
8 dried reddish chile peppers, chopped into 1/4-inch pieces (see headnote)
2/3 cupful slivered scallions, light- and dark-green parts only
1/2 spoon kosher salt
1 1/2 teaspoons freshly crushed Sichuan peppercorns
1 spoon crushed cumin
2/3 cupful chopped cilantro leaves and tender stems
2 ounces boiled/cooked bamboo shoots, chopped into bladed 1-inch slices (see headnote; bash not usage canned bamboo shoots)