Pork Stir Fry on a Budget
This recipe has been adapted from one I read somewhere, might have been Good Food or the Sainsbury’s magazine.
There isn’t all that much cooking involved and you get to cheat a little with the black bean sauce, makes an ideal weekday dinner.
It’s ‘budget’ as the original recipe called for pork fillet but I found that loin steaks work just as well (better?) as long as you cook them properly (see step one).
Serves 2
Ingredients;
3 Pork Loin Steaks
Black Bean Sauce
6 babycorn
3 spring onions
1 clove of garlic
Quarter tsp of ginger (fresh or dried)
Small bunch of coriander
Oil
1. Trim the fat off the pork steaks and cut into chunks.
2. Heat some oil and stir fry pork at high heat. Make sure the fat is rendered and the meat is caramelised, this is key in getting the right texture from the cheaper cut.
3. Add ginger, garlic and babycorn.
4. Add spring onion and the sauce, I used the whole jar but a bit less would have been nicer I think.
5. Chop coriander and add at the end. Serve with boiled rice.
Yummy … and something that the ovenly challenged can do!
I thought I’d better start with a basic recipe so I don’t poison anyone!
Looks yummy. I want to make it.
But what does “rendered” mean? In the context of meat, I mean?
Hi Helen,
Just means to fry at high heat until the fat melts.
I don’t think it’s nice to have stir fry with chewy meat which is why you usually use better cuts like fillet.. but this worked really well, but I think it took a while to really caramelise the meat (10-15 mins or so)and then it was perfect.
That looks gorgeous. Love the idea of the spring onion retaining some crunch. And presumably would work as well with chicken too? Yum! x
Yeah chicken would be good too but I eat chicken in everything so it’s nice to have a change, also the pork steaks (which did two dinners) were under ?3 for the pack!
That is good value!