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

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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.