In cooking of this dish, chili peppers are stir-fried until the skin is seared and patterned like tiger. That's how the dish got the name.

Tiger Skin Chili Pepper

Feature: sour, slightly spicy & sweet
Serves 1 to 2 and ready in 10-15 min

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Ingredients

• 200g chili peppers (red, green, or both)
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 3 teaspoons soy sauce
• 1 teaspoon rice wine
• 1/2 tablespoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon sugar

Preparation (5 min)

• Cut chili peppers into halves and remove seeds
• Mix vinegar, sugar, soy sauce, and rice wine as sauce

Instruction (5-10 min)

• Heat 2 tablespoons oil until hot
• Add chili peppers and reduce heat to simmer
• Press chili peppers on wok constantly and stir-fry until gray spots show up on the skin
• Pour in prepared sauce
• Stir until well-combined and serve