This Simple Homestyle Chinese Dish Will Blow You Away! Minced Meat with Potatoes | Pork Recipe

Hi and welcome to Spice and Pans. Today we'll be cooking home-style minced meat with potatoes. So let's start cooking. In collaboration with Horse and Pants Culinary Studio, we are launching an incredible cooking course featuring our loved recipes. Join us in our exclusive local Chinese delight course. Sign up with the link below Now we're going to shallow fry our potatoes. Using medium heat, heat up a wok or pan of oil. Make sure that the oil is hot enough. Using a bamboo chopstick or skewer, put it into the oil and if you see bubbles rising up like this, that means the oil is hot enough. Add in 400 grams of potatoes. Slice thinly like this. I've used my food processor to slice this so it's very simple for me. Just slowly put it inside the oil. We just need to fry them until the sides are brown. Now we are frying them so that later when we braise them with our minced meat, they will not break up that easily. And of course it will get rid of excess moisture so they can absorb the taste of the sauce much better. If you do not want to deep fry them, you can actually air fry them. Just spray some oil onto it, put inside your air fryer, set it at about 180 degrees celsius, air fry them for about 15 minutes or so. 7 minutes or so, just flip them around a little bit. Or if you want to cook them raw together with your minced meat, you can do so also but then you need to braise them a little bit longer. This will take a while and I'll let you know how they look like in a short while. I've been frying the potatoes for approximately 3 minutes or so. Now as you can see the sides of it are actually a little bit on the brown side so we can actually remove it from oil. Do not turn off the heat first, let's just remove the potatoes. Once you have removed all the potatoes, remove most of the oil leaving one tablespoon behind and I'll show you the next step after this. Now we're going to put the dish together. Using medium heat, add in 4 cloves of garlic, chopped. Move them around, we don't have to brown the garlic. Once you can smell the beautiful fragrance of the garlic, we'll add in our minced pork. 200 grams of minced pork, put everything in. Mix them up, chop them up. If the pan is too hot, just reduce the heat a little. We'll need to brown the pork a little and release most of the fats. This will make the dish very very fragrant. By chopping up the pork like this, the pork can be cooked more evenly. Once the pork has browned a little like this, we'll add in a little bit of salt, approximately one third of a teaspoon of salt, not too much and also a few dashes of pepper. Mix them all up. We'll fry until we no longer see any redness in the meat. As you can see, the heat has gone down quite a bit. We'll turn it back to medium. Love the sizzling sound. When you have browned the pork, we'll add in one tablespoon of oyster sauce, one tablespoon of light soy sauce and one tablespoon of dark soy sauce. Also add in one teaspoon of sugar. Mix them all up nicely. You have this very very beautiful dark hue colour. Once you mix them up well like this, we're adding water, 250 milliliters of water. Mix them up again. Now we're adding our potatoes. Gently spread them out a little. Now we'll put the lid on, turn the heat to medium low and we'll simmer this for approximately five minutes. I'll see you back in a while. Five minutes is up, let's have a look. Wow, look at how pretty this is. It is important to taste it right now because potatoes will absorb the saltiness. So we just need to find out whether this is savoury enough for us. So we just give this a taste. Perfect. Now we just need to thicken up the sauce with some cornstarch solution. A little bit. Swirl it around. You can gently move them around also. You can turn the heat up to medium now. Now depending on how much sauce you want, if you want to reduce it further you can. I'll just reduce it a little bit more so that the taste is more intense. Once you achieve the amount of sauce that you want, we'll just add in our spring onions. As much as little are really up to you. And now it's time for our lunch. And now the dish is done, let's have a taste. Smells really really good. The potatoes, very very tender. Absorbed the sauce really well. The pork is super flavourful. The sauce, oh my god, this is really fantastic with rice, with porridge and it reminds me of my grandma. So ladies and gentlemen, I hope you like our video. Do click like on our video and do subscribe to our channel. And now it's your turn to cook. See you. Bye bye.