It’s cold and it’s January, and if like me you lived Christmas and New Year to the max, waistlines will have grown and wallets shrunk. Oh well, I regret nothing and can’t wait to do it again this year! What I tend to do every January is eat healthy home-cooked food, which is quick to make and easy on my bank balance, and snaps everything back into shape.
My delicious pork stir-fry with ginger, spring onions and black pepper is as easy to make as it is to eat. Pork loin is a wonderfully tender cut of meat to use in a stir-fry and it is great value as well. The pork soaks up all the flavour of the ginger and spring onions, and the rather generous amount of ground black pepper gives it a good fragrant heat. This is fast stir-frying and tastes awesome!
Stir-fried Pork with Ginger and Spring Onions
Serves 4
2 tbsp. groundnut oil
550g/1lb 4oz pork fillet, finely sliced
5cm/2 inch ginger, finely sliced into matchsticks
6 spring onions, finely sliced
1 tsp. finely ground black pepper
2 tbsp. fish sauce
3 tbsp. oyster sauce
Rice or noodles to serve
- Heat the wok over a high heat until smoking. Pour in the oil and swirl it around the wok. Add the pork and spread it out in a layer and leave it for 1 ½ – 2 minutes to sear and go golden on one side, then stir-fry for 2-3 minutes to take on a little more colour.
- Chuck in the ginger, spring onions, black pepper, fish sauce and oyster sauce and continue to stir fry for 5-6 minutes, or until the pork is cooked through and tender and the sauce clings lovingly to the meat. Serve immediately with sticky rice or noodles.
Goes really well with my fried noodles and bok choy
-all thoughts and spelling mistakes are mine-
johngregorysmith 