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Tips for selecting fresh and delicious ingredients
Tips for choosing fresh and tasty pork (pig meat)
- Fresh pork should have a bright pink color, white translucent fat, firm texture, dry surface, and bounce back when pressed.
- When buying pork, the meat and fat should be separate but firmly attached to each other, and difficult to separate by hand.
- Avoid purchasing meat that looks dull, leaks liquid, has a foul odor, or shows signs of bruising or blood pooling.
Tips for selecting fresh and tasty green beans
- When buying green beans, choose ones with slender, long stems, well-developed roots, and a creamy white color. These are naturally grown beans without any growth enhancers, ensuring crispness, flavor, and richness when cooked.
- Chemically treated beans tend to have unusually large sizes, shiny appearances, and are brittle and easy to break.
- Alternatively, you can easily grow green beans at home following simple and safe instructions.
Tips for selecting fresh and tasty tomatoes
- Ripe tomatoes are bright red, juicy, shiny, and evenly colored. The stem should be fresh and firmly attached to the fruit, indicating freshly harvested and delicious tomatoes.
- Smelling ripe tomatoes emits a characteristic, faint aroma, and splitting them open reveals seeds with a yellow color, not green.
- Avoid purchasing soft, wrinkled tomatoes, as these indicate overripe or aged tomatoes that are not tasty.
How to Cook Stir-Fried Pork with Green Beans
