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Wednesday, 29 June 2011

Pork with Green Beans in Oyster sauce

This is another  family favourite dish that reminds me of home. When i was growing up and still ate beef, my grandpa would make this, hmmm remember me standing at the doorway to the kitchen and watching him in his white overalls lifting and stir-frying the wok, and all the 'tssss'....'shaaa' noises, but at same time the fragant smell floating into my little nose and making my belly rumbling.  There would normally be at least 3 or 4 varieties of the dishes for our supper, but if green beans was one of those big bowls on table -  I would have been very happy  just to eat  bowl of rice and drown it with the sauce and enjoying the crunchiness of the green beans as well the tender meat.

My mum carried on make this, but eventually when we stopped eating beef, she substituted it with pork. It is very simple dish to make, and does not take that much time, but always a yummy dinner.
 Because it is a simple dish... whenever i cant be bothered thinking, i cook this like in autopilot mode - all thanks to my mum strict drilling when i was young.




Ingredients:

2 Pork Loin steak, sliced into small strips
300g Green Beans, washed, and cut both ends.
2 cloves of garlic, deskinned, sliced
small piece of root ginger, deskinned, sliced

1 Tbspn Veg Oil
1/2tspn of Sugar
1/4tspn of White Pepper
Drizzle of Sesame Oil
1tspn Light Soy Sauce
1tspn Chinese rice wine/cooking wine
1 Tbspn Oyster sauce
2Tbspn Water
Sprinkle of salt to taste. 
1.5tspn Cornflour - mix with a little water

Method:

1)In a pan of hot water, blanch the green beans for 1 or 2 min, then drain and plunge cold water, then set aside
2) Heat over a high heat with veg oil, stir-fry the garlic and ginger for 1-2 minute.
3)Add the pork, stir-fry it  so that it does not stick to the pork.  Add the white pepper, sugar, sesame oil, wine, and stir until mix well.
4) Add the green beans, add the light soy sauce and water, stir-fry for 1-2mins, then cover with a lid and let it cook for 2 mins.
5) mix the oyster sauce with the blended cornflour, add into the wok, give it a good stir and wait to the sauce thicken. sprinkle a little salt to taste, one last stir and ready to serve.

Happy Cooking!


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