Sesame-Orange Pork

Sesame-Orange Pork

Ready in 30 minutes Serves 2
This dish most recently appeared in Fresh Start (5 Nights For 2) on Sunday, June 4, 2017.

With quinoa, edamame and bok choy.


Ingredients

QUINOA

  • 50g mixed quinoa
  • 1 cup frozen, shelled edamame beans

SESAME-ORANGE SAUCE

  • Zest of ½ orange
  • ¼ cup freshly squeezed orange juice
  • 1 teaspoon sesame oil
  • 2 teaspoons soy sauce
  • 1 teaspoon rice wine vinegar
  • ½ teaspoon runny honey
  • ½ teaspoon cornflour
  • 2 teaspoons finely grated ginger
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • Pinch of chilli flakes (optional)

PORK AND STIR-FRY

  • ½ brown onion
  • ½ head broccoli
  • ½ carrot
  • 1 baby bok choy
  • 275g lean pork strips (at room temperature)
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons oil, for stir-frying (or use spray oil)

TO SERVE

  • 2 teaspoons sesame seeds

Steps

  1. a small pot of salted water to the boil.
  2. Cook quinoa in pot of boiling water for 15 minutes, until tender with a slight bite. Add edamame for last 1 minute of cook time. Drain well and set aside. Combine all sesame-orange sauce ingredients in a small bowl and mix well.
  3. Thinly slice onion; cut broccoli into small florets and roughly dice stalk; cut carrot in half lengthways and thinly slice on an angle; trim 1cm end of bok choy, rinse and thinly slice, keeping leaves and stalks separate. Set all aside.
  4. Heat a large, dry fry-pan on medium heat and toast sesame seeds for 1-2 minutes, shaking pan often, until golden. Remove from pan and set both aside.
  5. Pat pork dry with paper towels and toss with salt. Heat 1 teaspoon of the oil in reserved pan on high heat. Stir-fry pork for 1-1½ minutes, until just cooked. Remove from pan and set aside, covered with foil.
  6. Add second teaspoon of oil to pan and stir-fry onion for 1-2 minutes, until tender. Add broccoli and carrot and stir-fry a further 1 minute. Add a dash of water to steam veggies. Add sesame-orange sauce and bok choy stalks and stir-fry a further 1 minute, until vegetables are tender but still crunchy and sauce has thickened slightly.
  7. Return pork and any resting juices to pan and stir to combine and heat through, about 30 seconds. Remove from heat, stir through drained quinoa and edamame and half the toasted sesame seeds and season to taste.
  8. divide sesame-orange pork with quinoa, edamame and bok choy between plates. Top with bok choy leaves and remaining sesame seeds

Nutritional Information

Energy 1827 kj
437 kcal
Protein 43.5g
Carbohydrate 32.1g
Fat 13.8g