Cold Cut Venison Shank with Chili Crisp Recipe

Before making this dish first ensure that your whole shank will fit into your biggest pot or Dutch oven. If not, you may have some sawing to do, or, you could cut the meat in one piece off of the bone and continue on with the recipe.

This recipe was inspired by the Chinese fu qi fei pian, a spicy Sichuan dish of thinly sliced beef shank and/or offal in a numbing chili oil sauce. The name translates to "married couple's slices of lung" as it used to be made primarily with lungs and was originally created by a street vendor couple in Chengdu.

This is one of my favorite Chinese dishes and I use it as a bellwether when trying out new Sichuan restaurants. If their fu qi fei pian...

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