Micheal Mina's Hot And Sour Sauce With Cucumber Noodles

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups pineapple juice, strained
• 2 cups orange juice, freshly squeezed and strained
• 1/2 cup lemon juice, freshly squeezed and strained
• 1/4 cup lime juice, freshly squeezed and strained
• 4 scallions, and green parts, chopped, plus 1 scallion, green part only, cut on a bias
• 2 shallots, sliced
• 3 garlic cloves, smashed
• 1 inch piece ginger, sliced
• 1/4 habaneros or 1/4 jalapeno, seeded
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1/3 cup rice wine vinegar
• 1 teaspoon soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons sesame oil
• 1/2 red bell pepper, minced
• 1 english cucumber, peeled, seeded, and julienned

Recipe

• 1 to make the hot and sour sauce: mix all the juices together in a bowl or pitcher.
• 2 in a large pot, combine the chopped scallions, shallots, garlic, ginger, and habanero.
• 3 add the sugar, honey, and 2 tablespoons of the mixed juice.
• 4 cook over medium-low heat until the moisture evaporates from the vegetables and the sugar gets syrupy, about 5 minutes. stir often to prevent scorching.
• 5 mix in the vinegar and soy, cook until the vegetables are soft and the flavor is balanced between hot and sour, another 3 minutes.
• 6 pour in the juice mixture and simmer until the liquid has reduced by about one-third and has body, about 30 minutes. the sauce should have thickened considerably due to all of the natural fruit sugars.
• 7 remove from the heat and strain the sauce through a fine-mesh strainer into another pot to remove the solids. the sauce can be made to this point up to 3 days in advance, covered and refrigerator, and gently reheated before proceeding.
• 8 to finish the sauce, bring it to a simmer over medium heat. whisk in the sesame oil to emulsify the sauce. stir in the cucumber noodles and cook until for a couple of minutes until they begin to soften like spaghetti but still remain crisp in the center. using tongs, remove the cucumber noodles to a side plate, letting the excess sauce drip off. remove the hot and sour sauce from the heat and stir in the remaining scallion and bell pepper.