2. Hoisin Pork with Rice Noodles

Hoisin Pork with Rice Noodles

Азияцкая
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Servings
6
Ingredients
  • ⅓ cup soy sauce
  • 1/8 cup water + 1 tsp corn starch (to thicken sauce if needed)
  • 2+2 tablespoons sesame oil (2 for the sauce, 2 to cook the meat)
  • 2 tablespoons honey + 1 tablespoon sugar 
  • 4 tablespoons Mirin
  • 2-3 dashes fish sauce
  • 3 tablespoons sushi rice vinegar + a squeeze of lime (1/2 lime) if you have it
  • 5 cloves finely minced garlic (reserve and fry just before adding meat)
  • 1 piece fresh grated ginger (1-2 tablespoons)
  • 1 minced hot pepper (i.e. jalapeno, chili pepper, etc)
  • 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
  • 3 tablespoons finely chopped peanuts or walnuts (optional)
  • ½ kg pork cut into thin strips (mine was called "pork stroganoff")
  • 9 oz. rice noodles (1bundle per serving)
  • Vegetable of choice - recommended sweet, ripe, red pepper, sliced carrot and/or кабачук
  • Topping
    • Grated carrots (optional)
    • Chopped scallions
    • Chopped peanuts or walnuts
    • Cilantro
Instructions

  1. Whisk all the sauce ingredients together (soy sauce, oil, mirin, sugar, fish sauce, vinegar, peppers, hoisin). You could also puree the sauce in a food processor to get the garlic, peppers, and ginger smooth.

  2. Thinly slice the pork.

  3. Heat a nonstick skillet over medium high heat with 2 tbsp of sesame oil and stir-fry the garlic and ginger for 45 seconds then add the pork continue stiring until the pork is browned on the outside.

  4. Add the vegetables and mix well with the meat.

  5. Add the sauce and cover until the vegetables are cooked, stiring regularly to cook the vegetables evenly.

  6. If the sauce is too thin, add the optional corn starch, which should be first disolved in water, continue stiring until the sauce has thickend, turn off the heat

  7. Meanwhile, cook your rice noodles according to package directions. Keep a little bit of liquid with the noodles to make sure it doesn't dry out.

  8. Distribute the noodles evenly among the serving dishes, top with pork, carrots, scallions, peanuts, cilantro; you can add extra sauce of choice (more hoisin sauce, soy sauce, sweet chili garlic sauce, sesame oil, etc). This is definitely a build-your-own kind of thing - just throw whatever you like in there with the noodles.

  9. If you are a sauce person, make extra sauce and set it aside just for tossing with the finished dish. The noodles tend to soak up all the sauce and can get dry without a little something extra.