Micheal Mina's Hot and Sour Sauce With Cucumber Noodles
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Yields:
-
3/4 cup
- Serves:
- 4
ingredients
- 2 cups pineapple juice, strained
- 2 cups orange juice, freshly squeezed and strained
- 1⁄2 cup lemon juice, freshly squeezed and strained
- 1⁄4 cup lime juice, freshly squeezed and strained
- 4 scallions, white and green parts, chopped, plus 1 scallion, green part only, cut on a bias
- 2 shallots, sliced
- 3 garlic cloves, smashed
- 1 inch piece ginger, sliced
- 1⁄4 habaneros or 1/4 jalapeno, seeded
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1⁄3 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons sesame oil
- 1⁄2 red bell pepper, minced
- 1 English cucumber, peeled, seeded, and julienned
directions
- To make the hot and sour sauce: Mix all the juices together in a bowl or pitcher.
- In a large pot, combine the chopped scallions, shallots, garlic, ginger, and habanero.
- Add the sugar, honey, and 2 tablespoons of the mixed juice.
- Cook over medium-low heat until the moisture evaporates from the vegetables and the sugar gets syrupy, about 5 minutes. Stir often to prevent scorching.
- Mix in the vinegar and soy, cook until the vegetables are soft and the flavor is balanced between hot and sour, another 3 minutes.
- Pour in the juice mixture and simmer until the liquid has reduced by about one-third and has body, about 30 minutes. The sauce should have thickened considerably due to all of the natural fruit sugars.
- Remove from the heat and strain the sauce through a fine-mesh strainer into another pot to remove the solids. The sauce can be made to this point up to 3 days in advance, covered and refrigerator, and gently reheated before proceeding.
- To finish the sauce, bring it to a simmer over medium heat. Whisk in the sesame oil to emulsify the sauce. Stir in the cucumber noodles and cook until for a couple of minutes until they begin to soften like spaghetti but still remain crisp in the center. Using tongs, remove the cucumber noodles to a side plate, letting the excess sauce drip off. Remove the hot and sour sauce from the heat and stir in the remaining scallion and bell pepper.
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