Friday, October 26, 2012

Kung Pow Pork


Ingredients
300g pork tenderloin pieces
½ cup unsalted roasted peanuts
8 dry red chillies
5 cloves of garlic
1 florette of broccoli
Onion or spring onion
1 teaspoon chopped ginger
3 cups cooking oil for deep-frying
2 Tablespoons cooking oil for stir-frying

Marinade:
1 Tablespoon soy sauce
1 ½ Tablespoons cornstarch
1 ½ Tablespoons water

Seasoning sauce:
1 Tablespoon rice wine (if you can find it)
1 ½ Tablespoon soy sauce
1 Tablespoon sugar
½ Tablespoon brown vinegar
1 teaspoon cornstarch
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sesame oil


Step 1:
Prepare the marinade with the ingredients shown above. Mix the pork pieces in the marinade until evenly coated and set aside.

Step 2:
Take another bowl and prepare the seasoning sauce with the ingredients listed above and set aside.

Step 3:
Take a pot and pour into it the 3 cups of deep-frying cooking oil. Wait for the oil to heat up until it is very hot. Now throw in the pork pieces one by one to deep-fry. Deep-fry for about 20 seconds. Make sure not to throw in too many at once as you want each piece to cook evenly. Strain the oil and set the pork pieces aside.

Step 4:
Chop up the broccoli into bite size chunks and set aside. Chop up the onion into long pieces and set aside. Crush chopped chillies and garlic into a paste. You may want to leave some whole chillies for presentation.

Step 5:
Heat wok on high heat with the stir-frying oil. Throw in the garlic and chillies paste we made earlier, and the whole chillies. Stir-fry on high heat until the chillies begin to look brown. Remember to always stir so chillies don't burn. At this stage the kitchen should smell very hot.

Step 6:
Before the chilli and garlic paste, and the whole chillies are completely brown, throw in the deep-fried pork pieces we made earlier. Add the seasoning sauce immediately. Constantly stirring throw in the broccoli chunks, onion slices, and the peanuts and mix everything together. Stir-fry for about 5 minutes (about 10 minutes if you are using a frying pan). Add salt and pepper to taste. Your Kung Pow Pork is ready! Serve immediately with rice. Enjoy!

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