Chinese Recipe : Bean Curd with Sliced Pork and Chili Pepper Sauce

Ingredients:

• ½ lb lean fresh pork
  
• ½ lb bean curd, cut into 8 cubes
  
• 1 clove garlic, cut into small pieces
  
• 1 tbsp bean paste
  
• 1 tbsp chopped red pepper
  
• 3 tbsp soy sauce
  
• 3 green peppers, quartered and seeded
  
• 1 small bamboo shoot, sliced
  
• 4 inches carrot, sliced and parboiled
  
• 4 dried mushrooms, soaked in water and halved
  
• ½ tbsp sugar
  
• ¼ tsp MSG
  
• 9 tbsp oil

Directions:

1. Boil pork for 30 minutes, let cool, and slice thin.
2. Heat 3 tbsp oil and fry bean curd piece by piece until light brown in color. Remove to a plate.
3. Heat 3 more tbsp oil, fry garlic for 1 minute, and remove to a plate.
4. Mix bean paste, red pepper and soy sauce in a dish.
5. Heat last 3 tbsp oil and fry green peppers, bamboo shoot, carrot and mushrooms.
6. Add bean paste mixture, garlic, sugar, pork and MSG, mix well, and continue to fry for 5 minutes. Then add fried bean curd and serve hot.