14 Dec Dinner

Soup:Carrot, celery, potato and minced pork soup
Meat: Sweet and Sour Pork

Soup: Carrot, celery, potato and minced pork soup

Ingredients (serves 4):

Minced garlic
Sliced onions
2 stalks of celery sliced thinly
1 carrots cut into small cubes
1 potato cut into small cubes
5 fresh button mushroom sliced
100g minced meat

Method:

1. Heat up a wok. Saute some minced garlic and onions. Add mushrooms in and fry till limp. Add celery, carrots and potatoes and stir fry. Add minced meat in. Add a little oil, breaking it into little pieces.
2. Add about a litre of water or 8 soup bowls of water and bring to a boil and then lower to a simmer.
3. Add a tablespoon of fish sauce for taste.

Meat: Sweet and Sour Pork

Ingredients:
500g belly pork meat, cubed
1 onion quartered
1/2 ripe tomato quartered or 8 cherry tomatoes halved
1/2 red capsicum, cut into wedges
100gm cucmber, cut into wedges with the centre portion removed

Marinade:
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 TBSP sugar
1 tsp sesame oil

Marinade pork cubes with the marinade for several hours or preferably overnight.

1 egg lightly beaten
1 1/4 tbsp plain flour and rice flour

Dip the marinated pork in the beaten egg and toss in plain flour, then deep fry till golden brown. Remove and drain.

Sauce: (combine)
3 TBSP tomato sauce
1 tsp sugar
1/2 TBSP oyster sauce
dash of pepper
250ml water
apple cider vinegar
3/4 TBSP corn flour

Heat 2 TBSP of oil in a wok. Fry onion briskly for half a minute and add in combined sauce ingredients. When the sauce begins to boil, add in pork, capsicum, tomato, onion and cucumber. Stir well to mix. Dish out and serve immediately