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Snow pea with sausage

Snow pea with sausage is another very simple dish but it tastes good. It's typical home-style cooking and common throughout China. Snow peas are also called "helan dou" or Dutch beans in China. We use a Cantonese style sweet sausage for this dish.

Stir fried snow peas with sweet sausage (pinyin: lawei chao helan dou, chinese: 腊味炒荷兰豆)

Ingredients:

One or two small sweet Cantonese sausages
Snow peas (helan dou)

Prepare:

cut the sausages in thin slices
remove the thread from the snow peas (optional)

Cooking:

Heat some oil in a wok
add the sliced sausage and snow peas
Keep stirring and if the wok becomes too dry, add a few tablespoons of water
Add some salt to taste and a little bit of soy sauce (spoon or so)
Cook until the beans are soft, eat immediately

Note:

you can use smoked pork as well for a totally different flavor
very easy to make
it's important to use good quality sausages, because it will give lots of flavor to the dish
sausage can be a little bit fat, most of the fat will go out of the meat during cooking