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Ingredient 33Meat & protein
Ingredient 33 · Meat & protein

Pork shoulder mince

Around 20 percent fat, which is enough that it needs no oil in the pan and enough that the rendered fat becomes the cooking medium for everything added after it. Leaner mince from loin will not crisp; it dries and stays pale. For a crisp crumb the mince must go in dry and be left undisturbed long enough to build a crust before it is broken up, because stirring early releases water faster than the pan evaporates it and the meat steams. Around 44 g of protein per 250 g portion.

Item no. 33
Aisle Meat & protein
Usual unit g
Recipes 2
Also called
pork minceminced porkground porkpork butt mince

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Substitutes

one

Duck leg mince

Ingredient 44
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Recipes using it

two
Recipe

Gan Bian Si Ji Dou (干煸四季豆)

Sichuan dry-fried green beans with a crisp pork and shiitake crumble, and chilli and Sichuan pepper fried to hu la

Sichuan · First revision · 13 OCT 2026
Recipe

Dan Dan Udon

Sichuan architecture on a Japanese noodle, bound in a cold silken tofu emulsion

Sichuan · Second revision · 13 OCT 2026