Glazed Pork

 

Ingredients:

1.25 to 1.5 lbs. pork
3 or 4 Green onions
1 Bunch minced garlic
3 Tbsp fresh ginger minced.
3 Tbsp soy sauce
3 Tbsp red wine
3 Tbsp brown sugar
1 Tbsp crushed red pepper
2 Tbsp water
Corn starch
11/3 cup of jasmine rice.

Directions:

Cut the pork into 1/4 inch width by 2 inch lengths. Set aside with the corn starch. Use boneless butterfly pork chops or a similar cut.

Prepare the ginger and the garlic and set aside. Wash and cut the green onions into 1/2 inch pieces.

Mix the soy sauce, red wine, brown sugar, water, and crushed red pepper together. Adjust the proportions so that you have a thick slurry.

Start the rice, using 1/3 cup rice per serving. When the water is gone, set the rice aside and begin the pork. This is a point where you can wait if you want. It will only help the rice.

Dust the pork with corn starch, stir fry and then set aside. This will take 3 or 4 plus batches to do it all.

Reduce the heat, and add the garlic. When the garlic is ready, add the green onions. Then return the pork to the mixture. Mix well and then add the soy sauce, wine, etc. mixture.

Again, mix all well on low heat. Cook until the liquid is about gone and the remainder covered with the brown sugar glaze.

Serve over the jasmine rice.

Notes:

This is a lowest common denominator recipe that everyone in the family likes. It will serve at least 4 persons with some left over. Use 1/3 cup rice per serving.

The original recipe had bell peppers in it, but some in the family refuse to eat them. So we are left with green onions.

You can adjust it so that there will be leftovers. They will be gone the next day.

I apologize for a misprint in the first version of this recipe. All the "Tsp" should have been "Tbsp" as they now are. There was also some discussion as to whether the phrase "thick slurry" was redundant, and just what is a "slurry" anyway? My dictionary defines "slurry" as "a watery mixture of insoluble matter", and unappetizingly adds "as mud, lime, or plaster of paris". It appears both thick and thin slurries are possible, and here, you should strive for the latter.