Ginger Pork Stir-Fry
Ready in 30 minutes
• Serves 4
This dish most recently appeared in Fresh Start (5 Nights For 4) on Sunday, February 4, 2018.
This dish most recently appeared in Fresh Start (5 Nights For 4) on Sunday, February 4, 2018.
With five-spice, broccoli and courgette
Ingredients
BROWN RICE
- ¾ cup Japanese brown rice
- 1 cup water ▲
GINGER STIR-FRY SAUCE
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- ¼ teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder
- ¼ cup water
- 1 tablespoon finely grated ginger
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1½ teaspoons honey
- 1½ teaspoons cornflour
PORK STIR-FRY
- 1 broccoli
- 1 carrot
- 1 courgette
- ½ cabbage
- 550g lean pork strips (at room temperature)
- 3 teaspoons oil, for cooking (or use spray oil)
- 1-2 tablespoons water
TO SERVE
- 15g sesame seeds
Steps
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Combine rice, water and a pinch of salt in a small pot and bring to the boil. As soon as it boils, cover with a tight-fitting lid and reduce to lowest heat to cook for 15 minutes. Turn off heat and leave to steam, still covered, for a further 8 minutes. Do not lift lid during cooking.
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In a small bowl, mix all ginger stir-fry sauce ingredients together until cornflour is dissolved then set aside. Heat a large, dry fry-pan on medium heat. Toast sesame seeds for 1-2 minutes, until golden. Remove from pan and set aside. Reserve pan.
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Cut broccoli into very small florets; cut carrot and courgette in half lengthways and slice both thinly on an angle; thinly slice cabbage until you have 2 cups worth. Set all aside.
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Pat pork dry and season with salt. When rice is steaming, heat 1 teaspoon of the oil in pan on high heat. Stir-fry pork, in two batches, for about 1 minute per batch, until just cooked. Use second teaspoon of oil for second batch. Set aside in a bowl and return pan to same heat.
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Add third teaspoon of oil to pan and stir-fry broccoli, carrot, courgette and cabbage for 3-4 minutes, until just cooked but still crunchy. Add water to pan to help veggies cook.
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Reduce heat to medium and add ginger stir-fry sauce to pan. Return pork, toss to combine and heat through for about 1 minute, until sauce thickens slightly and coats vegetables. Season with pepper.
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TO SERVE spoon ¾ cup cooked Japanese brown rice onto each plate and top with ginger pork stirfry. Garnish with sesame seeds.
Nutritional Information
Energy |
1661 kj 397 kcal |
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Protein | 37.5g |
Carbohydrate | 37.2g |
Fat | 9.9g |