Thursday, 16 May 2013

Test Kitchen Thursday - Hoisin Pork Noodles

One of the things that I would like to do is to refine my Chinese cooking skills.
Little Man loves noodles - so i thought I'd try this one out which is adapted from the Taste website.



RECIPE
2 garlic cloves crushed
1/4 cup hoisin sauce
2 tablespoons Chinese cooking wine
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder
500g pork fillets, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon oil
1 bunch bak choy, cut into 2cm pieces
4 green onions, sliced 
1 medium red capsicum, thinly sliced
440g packet hokkien noodles - prepare according to the packet instructions


Combine the crushed garlic, hoisin sauce, chinese cooking wine, soy sauce and five spice powder in a bowl. Then add the sliced pork. Marinate for 30 mins.

Drain the pork and retain the marinade to be added later.

Heat half of the oil in pan over a medium heat ,add the pork and cook until  brown. Remove from heat and set aside.

Heat remaining oil in pan over a medium . Then add the vegies, cook for a couple of minutes.

Now add the prepared noodles, cook for a couple of minutes.
Finally add the pork and the reserved marinade. Cook until the marinade boils.
Make sure to keep stirring the pan while you wait.

Note:

The recipe that i tested from Taste included brown sugar - which was too sweet for our liking! So i've excluded it from my recipe



VERDICT: 
We loved it! Very tasty!

It's a quick meal to cook less than 30mins - just requires some preparation which could be done the night before if you are time poor and just want to quickly cook something delicious.




Other recipes tested: 

2 comments:

  1. It looks delicious!
    We had stirfry tonight for the first time in ages and ages. I don't know I don't do it more often, so quick and 5/6 ate it! That's great in this house!!

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  2. Thanks it was delicious. Is definitely quick to cook, the time consuming bit is the preparation. Awesome that almost all of your household enjoyed your meal! Nothing harder than trying to please multiple people's taste buds.

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