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- Wok or wide pan with lid
- Grill
- Shallow dish
Steamed spare ribs with black beans (豉汁蒸排骨) is one of the staple dim sum dishes: small pieces of spare ribs in a salty sauce of fermented black beans, steamed in a shallow dish.
Fermented black beans are salted soybeans, not canned beans. They are very salty and deeply savory, and you mash them before they go into the marinade, so that the flavor is distributed.
Rinse the beans briefly under cold water first. They are pickled in salt, and without rinsing, the dish will become so salty that you will no longer taste the rest. Then add the cornstarch last, because it binds the moisture released during steaming into a sauce.
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