Cooked Chinese pear

Name: Cooked Chinese pear
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Snacks
Ingredients: to taste Chinese pear; to taste chili; to taste Salt; to taste Sugar

Whole birchleaf pears simmered with red chili and salt until the skins just crack; an unusual sweet-savory treatment yielding tender fruit with a salty-spicy edge.

10 minNewEasy Snacks Boil Sweet & Sour

Instructions

1
Wash the Chinese pear clean.
2
Prepare some chili peppers, preferably red ones as they are more appetizing. I don't have bright red ones, so I used ones soaked in soy sauce.
3
Put it into the pot, add some water, enough to just cover the fruit.
4
Add some salt after it boils; you can add more, after all, it's hard for the flavor to penetrate.
5
Continue cooking, making sure to turn them over, and cook until some start to crack. I overcooked a few, and when the cracks got big, they became soft.
6
After pouring out the water, add some sugar and chili, and mix well.
7
You can add more salt or sugar, like the kind of cooked pickled vegetables sold at street stalls that are coated with a thick layer of white salt.