Name: Budding Chives with Pork and Salted Black Beans
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons vegetable oil; 1¼ pounds ground pork; 1 cup mirin; ¾ cup white soy sauce; 1½ pounds budding chives (about 5 bunches), trimmed, cut into ½-inch pieces; 4 garlic cloves, finely grated; 4 red Thai chiles, thinly sliced; ¼ cup toasted sesame oil; 2 tablespoons dried fermented black beans; Steamed rice (for serving)

A stirfry of chopped chives ground pork cilantro and fermented black beans in a bowl.

Photo by Alex Lau

If you can’t find budding chives, look for long, flat garlic chives at an Asian market and use those instead to recreate this dish from Win Son, NYC.

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