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Sizzling Rice with Pork Slices

Recorded in the manuscript The True Craft of China's Sichuan Cuisine Masters · A classic sizzling-rice dish "with sound and fragrance hitting you at once"

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📋 A Note on Evidence Strength

This page's source material is the "Sizzling Rice with Pork Slices" entry itself (including a precise recipe) in the manuscript The True Craft of China's Sichuan Cuisine Masters; there is currently no other historical-event record of this dish (such as a state-banquet menu appearance or a notable guest's review). Manuscript recipe

🎯 Sizzling Rice with Pork Slices · Overview of the Cooking Stages

🔪 Marinating the Pork Slices

Pork loin sliced thin
marinated with cooking wine and salt, tossed with water-bean-flour slurry

🥣 Accompaniments and Sauce

Water bamboo shoots blanched, rice crust broken into pieces
a lychee-flavor sauce mixed

🍳 Stir-Frying and Thickening

Pork slices stir-fried loose, seasonings added
sauce poured in and thickened to a light gravy

🔥 Frying the Rice Crust and the "Sizzle"

Deep-fried at 70% heat to egg-yolk color
sauce poured on while hot, with a loud "crack"

The four stages above are compiled from the original method text of the "Sizzling Rice with Pork Slices" entry in The True Craft of China's Sichuan Cuisine Masters; see the "Follow the Old Master" module for the complete procedure.

📋 Sizzling Rice with Pork Slices · Formal Recipe

The recipe data below is conveyed from the original text of the "Sizzling Rice with Pork Slices" entry in The True Craft of China's Sichuan Cuisine Masters. Manuscript recipe

Category	Ingredient	Amount	Note
Main	Pork loin	150g	Sinew removed, sliced thin
Main	Rice crust	175g	Broken by hand into thumb-sized pieces
Accompaniment	Water-soaked water bamboo shoots	50g	Sliced thin, blanched in boiling water
Seasoning	Soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, MSG, ground pepper	Each to taste	Mixed into a lychee-flavor sauce; manuscript gives no gram amounts
	Cooking wine	To taste	For marinating and for the stir-fry
	Fine salt	To taste	For marinating
	Ginger slices, garlic slices, scallion segments, pickled chili segments	Each to taste	For stir-frying until fragrant
	Water-bean-flour slurry	To taste	For tossing the pork slices and thickening the sauce
	Rendered pork lard	100g	For stir-frying the pork slices
	Cooking oil	1500g (125g consumed)	For deep-frying the rice crust
	Stock	1250g	For the sauce and for the stir-fry

Comparison of the six ingredients with precise gram amounts in the manuscript (relative to stock at 1250g):

Stock1250 g

Rice crust175 g

Pork loin150 g

Cooking oil (consumed)125 g

Rendered pork lard100 g

Water-soaked water bamboo shoots50 g

Flavor seasonings (soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, MSG, cooking wine, etc.) carry no gram amounts in the manuscript and are not included in this chart. Bar lengths are proportional to gram amounts for illustration only.

See the "Follow the Old Master" module for the complete procedure.

Source: recipe and method from the "Sizzling Rice with Pork Slices" entry of The True Craft of China's Sichuan Cuisine Masters

👨‍🍳 Sizzling Rice with Pork Slices · Method

The steps below are broken down into four stages from the original method text of the "Sizzling Rice with Pork Slices" entry in The True Craft of China's Sichuan Cuisine Masters. The manuscript does not record any spoken account by Chen Songru himself on the specific operations, and "The Master Says" field notes that faithfully. Tap the circle on the right as you complete each step.

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✅ Sizzling Rice with Pork Slices · Self-Check

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