Dry Pot

[nakji]

I had dry pot (Gan Guo) for the first time the other night at a local restaurant in Suzhou, and really enjoyed it. They had several kinds available - frog, pork, chicken, and fish. I've never seen a recipe for in in any of my books, and was wondering if anyone had any experience making it? I couldn't work out how it was made.

[djyee100]

I don't have any suggestions for gan guo, don't think I've ever tried it. I did a search on the web for more info because I wasn't sure what the dish was. It sounds like a combination of meat and veg that are cooked in a wok full of oil. What puzzles you about the cooking method?

I once cooked an Indian recipe that reminds me of gan guo. Chicken pieces in a marinade of ginger, garlic, chiles and shallots were cooked in a cupful of hot oil in the wok. It wasn't deep-frying, it wasn't shallow-frying. It was more like the meat and marinade were being braised in very hot oil.

I also came across this link, to my linguistic edification:

TMI?

[NancyH]

DJYee - the blog post you linked to is tooo funny!

[liuzhou]

You can see a couple of rather excitable Chinese women making a Sichuan version of Gan Guo Ji (Chicken) here. It's in Chinese but you can probably work out what they are doing.

There are several recipes on the interweb, but in Chinese.

[Ader1]

Gan Guo is one of my favourite Chinese dishes. I ate it in Sichuan. I never did eat a Tofu in Dry Pot. My favourite was a beef and shrimp dry pot. Don't seem to be many recipes of the net but here's one using tofu:

http://allrecipes.com/cook/taozheng/blogentry.aspx?postid=208292

Anybody else have a recipe?