Babao Chili Sauce

Overview

Babao hot sauce is a famous dish in Shanghai. It is bright, bright and spicy. It is improved from stir-fried chili sauce. Stir-fried chili sauce is a common home-cooked dish that used to be served at rice stalls. Because of its dark color and rich flavor, it is very suitable for rice. In the 1940s, the chefs of Tongheguan on Jiujiang Road followed the cooking method of the local Shanghai dish Family Portrait, and poured a shrimp hat on the fried spicy sauce. They also adjusted and enriched the raw materials of the fried spicy sauce, using eight main raw materials such as shrimp, chicken, duck gizzard, pork leg, belly, Kaiyang, mushrooms and bamboo shoots. (It can also be adjusted according to preference and season) so it is called Babao spicy sauce. Babao chili sauce is spicy, fresh and slightly sweet, very tasty and very popular among diners. Later, some restaurants in Shanghai followed suit, and Babao hot sauce became widely spread.

Tags

• homemade ingredients
• beef
• chicken breast
• chicken essence
• chili sauce
• cooking wine
• cornstarch
• dried shiitake mushrooms
• dried white beans
• fresh diced bamboo shoots
• salad oil
• salted peanuts
• shrimp
• sweet noodle sauce
• white sugar
• carrot
• green onions
• salt
• sesame oil

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash the ingredients and cut into cubes. Chicken breast, beef (lean pork), shrimp paste. Sizing: Add a small amount of cooking wine, a spoonful of cornstarch, a spoonful of salad oil, a little salt, mix well and marinate for 10 minutes.

   

2. 2 Pour a little salad oil into the pan until the oil temperature is 50% to 60% hot. Pour in the diced chicken and stir-fry until the meat turns white and take it out.

   

3. 3 Pour in the beef (lean pork) and stir-fry until it changes color, then take it out.

   

4. 4 Pour in the shrimp and stir-fry until white, then remove.

   

5. 5 Pour in the diced dried beans and stir-fry for 2 minutes. Remove.

   

6. 6 Finally, add diced bamboo shoots (you can buy vacuum-packed bamboo shoot slices in supermarkets), stir-fry the diced carrots together (if the oil is insufficient at this time, you can add some salad oil appropriately) and take it out for 2 minutes.

   

7. 7 Leave an appropriate amount of salad oil in the pan, sauté the chopped green onion, then add the sweet noodle sauce and chili sauce (you can choose your favorite chili sauce, Pixian, Lao Gan Ma, Lee Kum Kee, Rice Suffering, you can dip the tofu pudding in water, the spiciness and sweetness can be adjusted to your preference) and stir-fry over low heat for 1 to 2 minutes.

   

8. 8 Then add the ingredients that were stir-fried before, then add the ready-made peeled salted peanuts (you can add some water as appropriate), add chicken essence, and white sugar and stir-fry for 3 to 4 minutes. Cover and simmer over low heat for 2 to 3 minutes (be careful not to stick to the bottom) and finally stir-fry and add sesame oil.

   

9. 9 It needs to be stir-fried constantly to allow the sauce to be fully absorbed by the ingredients.

   

10. 10 Bright color, fresh and smooth.

    

11. 11 Salty and delicious, spicy and fragrant.

    

12. 12 Rich ingredients and diverse tastes.

    

13. 13 Delicious and delicious, it can be served with rice or mixed with noodles. You can serve porridge or wine.