Saturday, January 9, 2010

Pork Fried Rice-5 Star

* 5 Star Pork Fried Rice
* cane sugar free, dairy free, egg free, fish/shellfish free, gluten free, milk free, nut free, soy free, vegan, wheat free, yeast free
* Common allergens: cane sugar, anchovies (in the fish sauce)

We had a Vietnamese foreign exchange student a couple of years ago and she taught us how her family made pork fried rice. We make it two ways, depending on how much time we have but the basics are the same. This may seem like a lot of steps but it's really not! You can use leftover rice too.

Serves 4

6 cups cooked rice
    -instead of cooking the 2 1/2 cups rice in water use 1 box chicken broth (4 cups) plus 1/2 cup water,
     bring to a boil, turn down to low and simmer for 20 minutes
5 tablespoons coconut oil
2 large shallots, chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 bag of frozen peas, thawed (for the easy version)
or
3 carrots cut in 1/2 inch cubes and a heaping handful (how's that for precise! lol) of fresh green beans cut in 1/4 inch pieces (for the longer version)
1/2 cup sugar
1 lbs of boneless pork chops sliced 1 inch long and 1/4 inch thick
1 tablespoon fish sauce

Get the rice started. Chop onions and garlic.

Put coconut oil in a small pan, heat and add shallots and garlic. Cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes until onions are translucent. Thaw peas in microwave or slice carrots and green beans.
Slice pork.

When rice is done stir in coconut oil/shallots/garlic mixture.

Pat pork dry with several paper towels. This is important. If you don't do it the pork will turn into pork...um...candy. Which is just nasty. So pat dry.

Heat a large skillet over medium heat. Here comes the weird part! Pour 1/2 cup of sugar into a small hill in the middle of the DRY skillet. The sugar will melt...who knew...but yes, it will melt into a golden brown puddle. Dump the sliced pork into the middle of the melted sugar and start stirring with a silicon spatula. Keep stirring! Some of the sugar will likely attach into a lump around the spatula, that's normal. Just keep stirring and a lot of it will melt. The pork needs to be coated and cooked through, 3-5 minutes. There won't be a lot of melted sugar left, the pork will be brown, and there will likely be several lumps of sugar left in the pan. Throw the sugar lumps away.

Add in the rice mixture and which ever veggies you chose to add.

If it's peas, cook until peas are warm. Add the 1 tablespoon of fish sauce and stir well.
or
If you chose the carrots/green beans then cook until veggies are crisp tender. Add the 1 tablespoon of fish sauce and stir well.


Enjoy!

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