Chicken Recipes - Pork with Cucumber Recipe

  
 

Chinese Meats Recipes - Pork with Cucumber Recipe

Ingredients

  • 4 oz. lean pork

  • salt

  • sugar

  • Ve-Tsin (M.S.G.)

  • 1 teaspoon peanut oil

  • scant 1 1/2 teaspoons corn-flour

  • 2 teaspoons water

  • 1 small onion

  • 7-8 inches long cucumber

  • 1 tablespoon pork dripping

  • 1 crushed clove garlic

  • 1 teaspoon ginger sherry

  • 1/4 pint (U.S. 5/8 cup) chicken stock

  • 1/4 teaspoon soy sauce

Method:

  1. Cut the pork across the grain into thin slices. Place the slices in a bowl, add a pinch of salt, sugar and Ve-Tsin, the oil, 1 scant teaspoon corn-flour and 1 teaspoon water, and work them well into them.

  2. Cut the onion into 4 pieces. Quarter the cucumber full length then slice it diagonally across into 2-inch lengths.

  3. Melt half the dripping in a frying-pan. Cook the garlic in it till pale golden and then discard it.

  4. Fry the pork into the hot dripping for 4 minutes. Sprinkle it with the sherry then transfer the meat to a dish.

  5. Wipe out the pan. Add the remaining dripping. Toss the vegetables in it for 1 minute. Add another pinch salt, sugar and Ve-Tsin and the soy sauce and cook for 3 minutes.

  6. Stir in the remaining corn-flour, blended with the rest of the water, and boil up for 1 1/2 minutes. Add the pork and heat through. Turn all on to a heated dish and serve.