Ginger Pork Stir-Fry

Ginger Pork Stir-Fry

Ready in 30 minutes Serves 1
This dish most recently appeared in Fresh Start (5 Meals For 1) on Sunday, February 4, 2018.

With five-spice, broccoli and courgette


Ingredients

BROWN RICE

  • 1/3 cup Japanese brown rice
  • ½ cup water

GINGER STIR-FRY SAUCE

  • 1-1½ tablespoons soy sauce
  • ¼ teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder
  • ¼ cup water
  • 2 teaspoons finely grated ginger
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • ¾ teaspoon honey
  • ¾ teaspoon cornflour

PORK STIR-FRY

  • ¼-½ broccoli
  • ½ carrot
  • ½ courgette
  • ¼ cabbage
  • 140g lean pork strips (at room temperature)
  • Spray oil
  • 1-2 tablespoons water

TO SERVE

  • 1 teaspoon sesame seeds
  • 1-2 tablespoons coriander

Steps

  1. Prepare garlic and ginger. 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 12 minutes. Turn off heat and leave to steam, still covered, for a further 10 minutes. Do not lift lid during cooking.
  2. In a small bowl, mix all ginger stir-fry sauce ingredients together, until cornflour is dissolved then set aside. Heat a medium, dry fry-pan on medium heat. Toast sesame seeds for 1-2 minutes, until golden (if desired). Remove from pan and set aside. Reserve pan.
  3. Cut broccoli into small florets; cut carrot and courgette in half lengthways and thinly slice both on an angle; thinly slice cabbage until you have 1 cup worth; chop coriander. Set all aside.
  4. Pat pork dry and season with salt. When rice is steaming, return reserved pan to high heat. Spray with oil, add pork and stir-fry for about 1 minute, until just cooked. Remove pork from pan and set aside.
  5. Spray pan with oil again (if needed) and return to high heat. Stir-fry broccoli, carrot, courgette and cabbage for 3-4 minutes, until just cooked and still crunchy. Add water to pan to help veggies cook.
  6. Reduce heat to medium and add ginger stir-fry sauce to pan. Return pork, stir to combine and heat through for about 1 minute, until sauce thickens slightly and coats vegetables. Season with pepper.
  7. TO SERVE spoon 1/3 cup cooked Japanese brown rice onto a plate and top with ginger pork stir-fry. Garnish with READY IN sesame seeds and coriander.

Nutritional Information

Energy 1652 kj
395 kcal
Protein 40.0g
Carbohydrate 38.9g
Fat 7.3g