Pork & Potato 薯仔煮豬肉

Pork & Potato 薯仔煮豬肉 is one of the dishes where its simple, and always taste good and most importantly reminds me of home, my mums cooking and my childhood. Its definitely not a dish you will find in any chinese restaurant, as this is chinese home-cooking food.  Its something my mum always make when growing up, and its something we still have. Whenever, me or my mum feel stuck in what to cook for dinner - this is quickest and easiest to make, and be cooking on auto-pilot mode.  ;p
In fact, talking to my grandma, this dish was also made when my dad was growing up - and back then in Hongkong, a big pot of stew is the best way to get a few pototoes and some belly pork to feed a very big family where there was many hungry children.  (my grandma had 10 kids... so would be very challenging in the kitchen!)
So its great to know that its a timeless dish. My mum will normally use belly pork - but eating the fat is not too good for health, so these days i just use lean pork loin, and add a few onions.

Ingredients:
6 small new potatoes/ 3 big potatoes, peeled, chopped in chunks
2 Slice of lean pork loin, diced
1 Onion, chopped
a few slices of fresh root ginger,
1 clove of garlic, sliced

1 Tbspn Veg Oil
1/2 tspn Sugar
Sprinkle of White Pepper
1 Tbspn of Sesame Oil
2 Tbspn of Light soy sauce
1 Tbspn of Dark soy sauce
1 Tbspn of Oyster Sauce
2 tspn of ShiaoShing Wine/ cooking white wine
salt for seasoning
2 tspn of cornflour, little amount of water
approx 500ml Boiling water

Method:

1) Heat a wok over a high heat with oil, put in ginger, garlic, let it fry a little, then add the chopped onions.
2) Add the pork then sugar, white pepper, wine, light soya sauce and give it a good stir
3) Adding the boiling water so it enough cover the pototoes, then cover it and let it simmer until potato goes soft on a medium heat.
4)Once the potato is soft, finally add the oyster sauce, dark soy sauce, and cornflour. If the water retends to much add abit more boiling water, so you end up with lots of sauce. Finally, season with salt, and serve.
5)  Ready to serve, with some white rice.

Happy Cooking!