Lamb Spareribs With Preserved Vegetables

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 1/2 lbs lamb spareribs
• 2 (8 ounce) packages chinese mustard pickle (soft pack)
• 10 -12 garlic cloves
• 2 -3 fresh chili peppers
• 2 -3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 3 -4 tablespoons chinese wine
• 1 -2 teaspoon sugar
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 5 cups hot water

Recipe

• 1 trim fat and cut spareribs into individual pieces suitable for stir-frying. blanch spareribs with 2.5 cups of hot water to rinse away fat and blood.
• 2 drain ribs, and season ribs with the soy sauce, cooking wine, chilli. mix well.
• 3 drain preserved vegetables and chop into 1" pieces, crush garlic and halve if necessary, slice and dice chillies.
• 4 set aside the remaining 2.5 cups of hot water to be added into the wok during simmering.
• 5 heat 2 tbs oil in a wok or saucepan on medium flame/heat. fry garlic in oil till fragrant, then add spareribs and seasoning into wok, reducing heat if necessary to prevent splatter.
• 6 continue stir frying for about a minute, spareribs should be about half-cooked, then add the preserved vegetables, and continue stir-frying, till fragrant, roughly another half a minute.
• 7 add the 2.5 cups of hot water to the wok, leave it to simmer for about 20 minutes on low-med heat, and you're done!
• 8 you can add more soy sauce/sugar/water to taste at this point, adding more seasoning and water can turn this dish into more of a soupy nature as well, great during winter!
• 9 serve with steamed rice.