Pork and Bell Pepper Stir Fry

Pork and Pepper stir fry (青椒炒肉丝) is basic stir fry dish of thinly sliced green peppers and pork. Here, I used yellow pepper because it was available.

Method

Marinate/flavor thinly sliced pork strips with salt, sugar, vinegar, and rice wine. Slices the bell pepper into small slices. Slice some scallion.

Heat up some oil and drop in the pork to sear. When the pork starts browning, add the scallions and bell pepper and stir. After the bell pepper loses its rawness in a few minutes, add the soy sauce and stir until mixed.

Notes

The cooking method is pretty much the same as that for Beef and Garlic Chive.You can quick fry the scallions first before adding the pork, instead of afterward. ThRis is probably more common.

The dish is believe to be the forerunner of  the Chinese American dish, pepper steak, which is basically the same thing but with beef and more sauce and thickener. In most of China, pork is the meat of choice, so much so that when they use the term for meat (肉) they almost always mean pork (猪肉).