Quick and Easy recipe for Chinese Pork and Mushroom Stir fry with a delicious marinade. Serve with jasmine rice for a perfect dinner, better than a take-out!
The trick with making any Chinese food and it's guaranteed success is to prepare everything before hand. You need to get all your ingredients together, chopped, diced, toasted, sauces prepared in little bowls, absolutely everything that belongs in a recipe must be at hand when you fire your wok up to inferno temperatures!
The idea is to cook everything very quickly, on a high heat, so that all the juices, natural vitamins and minerals are sealed for maximum flavour and goodness.
Not only are flavours and nutrients important in Chinese cooking, but texture also carries a high importance.
In this dish, you have the soft tender texture (yes, tender, not dry and stringy) of the thin slices of pork meat, against the crunchy slightly chewy cashew nuts, with a gentle sweetness from the peas, all married together with that distinctive light Chinese flavour sauce that comes with a stir fry.
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You can of course swap any of the meat and vegetables to suit what you have available, as always, our recipes at Lovefoodies are designed to be adapted and changed to fit in with what you like eating!
TOP TIPS
- You need a wok!
- Get all your ingredients prepared and ready for the wok before you start cooking anything.
- Serve with a bowl of Thai fragrant rice...mmmmm delicious!
- When you are ready for serving, don't hang around! the food must be served as soon as it comes out of the wok, for maximum taste and texture.
- Quantities for vegetables can be as much or little as you wish. You can also change the vegetables to suit you.
Ingredients
8 oz or 200 g / person) thinly sliced pork. I usually use a pork chop or fillet and slice that thinly (1 per person)
1 ½ cups frozen garden peas
Handful of mushrooms cleaned and cut to bite size pieces
1 inch piece of ginger
2 cloves garlic
Fresh chopped chilies (optional)
Handful of cashew nuts (optional)
1 spring onions / scallions
handful of fresh coriander / cilantro
The sauce
2 teaspoons cornflour
1 ½ tablespoons light soy sauce
1 tablespoon oyster sauce
1 teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoons Chinese rice wine
2 teaspoons sesame oil
1 teaspoon chicken stock powder
4 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon chili seeds (optional)
Instructions
1. Wash and prepare the mushrooms, they should all be cut to bite sized even pieces.
2. Chop the ginger, garlic, and chilies
3. Put all your prepared vegetables on a separate plate as shown in the photo.
4. Slice the pork into thin bite sized strips (not cubes) and place in the bowl . Add the chopped ginger & garlic to the meat.
5. Make the sauce. - Add all the sauce ingredients into a bowl, and stir so that the cornflour has dissolved and add to the meat.
6. Heat the wok until it is smoking. Add a tablespoon of vegetable oil to the wok.
7. As soon as the wok is hot, add the mushrooms and stir until cooked. Add the meat, stir until cooked, then add the garden peas, cashew nuts and cilantro/scallions
8. Add any remaining sauce, stirring all the time and if the sauce gets too thick, add some water to loosen.
Serve with some delicious Fragrant Jasmine Rice
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Quick Pork and Mushroom Stir Fry
Quick and Easy recipe for Chinese Pork and Mushroom Stir fry with a delicious marinade. Serve with jasmine rice for a perfect dinner, better than a take-out!
Ingredients
- 8 oz or 200 g / person) thinly sliced pork. I usually use a pork chop or fillet and slice that thinly, 1 per person
- 1 ½ cups frozen garden peas
- pieces Handful of mushrooms cleaned and cut to bite size
- 1 inch piece of ginger
- 2 cloves garlic
- Fresh chopped chilies, optional
- Handful of cashew nuts, optional
- 1 spring onions / scallions
- handful of fresh coriander / cilantro
The sauce
- 2 teaspoons cornflour
- 1 ½ tablespoons light soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 teaspoons Chinese rice wine
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon chicken stock powder
- 4 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon chili seeds, optional
Instructions
- Wash and prepare the mushrooms, they should all be cut to bite sized even pieces.
- Chop the ginger, garlic, and chilies
- Put all your prepared vegetables on a separate plate as shown in the photo.
- Slice the pork into thin bite sized strips (not cubes) and place in the bowl . Add the chopped ginger & garlic to the meat.
- Make the sauce. - Add all the sauce ingredients into a bowl, and stir so that the cornflour has dissolved and add to the meat.
- Heat the wok until it is smoking. Add a tablespoon of vegetable oil to the wok.
- As soon as the wok is hot, add the mushrooms and stir until cooked. Add the meat, stir until cooked, then add the garden peas, cashew nuts and cilantro/scallions
- Add any remaining sauce, stirring all the time and if the sauce gets too thick, add some water to loosen.
- Serve with some delicious Fragrant Jasmine Rice
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 2 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 787Total Fat: 41gSaturated Fat: 11gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 26gCholesterol: 155mgSodium: 1384mgCarbohydrates: 43gFiber: 11gSugar: 14gProtein: 62g
Nutrition information isn’t always accurate
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