My family loves pork more than chicken or seafood. Thus, I have to put on my thinking cap to create as many new pork dishes as possible with whatever vegetable or ingredients I have in my kitchen. And not only that; it has got to be a dish which can be cooked in the shortest time possible as there are usually other dishes to be cooked for every meal.
I have pork, pumpkin and tomato at home all the time. So, it shall be Braised Pork with Pumpkin and Tomato, a very simple dish which can be cooked in no time.
Ingredients:
- 200 g lean pork
- 100 g pumpkin
- 1 big tomato
- 3 stalks of spring onion
- 3 cloves garlic
- Marinating sauce:
- 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1 tsp dark soy sauce
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1 tbsp Chinese cooking wine
- 1/2 tsp salt
- A few dashes of pepper
- (Optional) Seasonings - light soy sauce, salt and pepper
- Cooking oil
- Water
Method:
- Wash and cut lean pork into small pieces.
- Marinate the pork for 30 minutes with light and dark soy sauce, sesame oil, Chinese cooking oil, salt and pepper.
- Wash, peel and cut pumpkin into cubes.
- Wash and cut tomato into wedges.
- Wash and cut 1 stalk of spring onion into 1-inch length (sprinkling). Set aside.
- Cut the remaining 2 stalks of spring onion into 1/4-inch length.
- Peel and chop the garlic.
- Heat up about 2 tablespoons of cooking oil in a wok or pan.
- Saute the garlic till fragrant.
- Add the pork with the marinating sauce and stir fry till it is half-cooked.
- Add the seasonings if the marinating sauce is insufficient.
- Add the cubed pumpkin, tomato and quarter inch spring onion. Stir.
- Add some water if required.
- Close the wok/pan with a cover and braise the pork, pumpkin, tomato and spring onion till the pork and pumpkin are soft and the tomato is mushy.
- Remove the cover of the wok/pan.
- Give the ingredients a good stir and dish out.
- Sprinkle the dish with the 1-inch spring onion.
- Serve with white rice.