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The ingredients needed to make Water-boiled gluten - Shui Zhu Mian Jin:

1. Make ready 500 g Wheat gluten (Mian Jin / Seita)
2. Take 1 small head napa cabbage
3. Prepare 24 (at least) dried red chilli peppers (Sichuan variety)
4. Prepare 1 tbsp (at least) Sichuan pepper
5. Make ready 4 cloves (at least) garlic
6. Take 4 cm (at least) ginger
7. Take 1 tbsp black beans (dou chi)
8. Get 2 tbsp chilli-bean paste (douban jiang)
9. Take 1 tbps Shaoxing wine
10. Prepare 1 tbps light soy sauce
11. Take 2 star anise
12. Make ready 2 l vegetable stock
13. Prepare Garlic chives
14. Take Peanut oil

Since I prefer cooking without meat, I developed a vegan version of this classic dish, using wheat gluten, aka seitan and mian jin.. You can always make it more or less spicy by adding or reducing chili powder and/or spicy sauces like chimichurri, sambal olek, Tabasco or harrissa. See great recipes for Szechuan Fried Rice too! Cut beef steak into thin slices against the grain.

Instructions to make Water-boiled gluten - Shui Zhu Mian Jin:

1. Chop ginger, garlic and garlic chive whites and fry them in some oil together with the chillies, Sichuan pepper, black beans and garlic chive whites until very aromatic and the chillies start to blacken. Remove from pan and let cool.
2. Cut cabbage in bite size bits and stir fry briefly in some oil. Divide into 4 bowls.
3. Chop half of the chilli mix finely
4. Combine the stock, bean paste, wine, soy sauce, star anise and the rest of the chilli mix in the wok, bring to a boil. Cut the mian jin in slices, add to the broth and let simmer briefly. Divide broth and mian jin in the bowls.
5. Heat up some peanut oil in the wok. Divide the chopped chilli mix over the bowls and pour over the hot oil. Serve sizzling.
6. Can also be made with non-vegetarian protein (beef or fish typically)

Transfer to a bowl, add pinch of salt and cooking wine. Sichuan Boiled Fish, or shui zhu yu, is a very popular dish in China's Sichuan specialty restaurants. This Sichuan boiled fish is heavy on the oil, Sichuan peppercorns, and dried red chili peppers, all used to flavor the delicate fresh fish filets at the center of this dish. The baking soda will help to tenderize the beef. Take one mian jin in your fingers, stretch it and drop immediately into the water.

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