Main Dishes Recipes - Braised Pork and Soy Beans Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 Tbsp soy or sunflower oil

• 1 pork chop

• 3oog/10oz cooked soy beans

• 3 spring onions

• 2.5cm/1 in ginger, sliced

• 1 clove garlic, sliced

• 1/4 cups/300ml/1/2pt water

• 3 Tbsp Japanese or Chinese rice wine

• 5 Tbsp Japanese soy sauce

• 4 Tbsp sugar

Serves 4

---

Method:

1. 1 Heat the oil in a frying pan and brown the pork chops on both sides.

2. Put the chops, soy beans, spring onions, ginger, garlic, water, rice wine, soy sauce and sugar into a flameproof casserole dish.

3. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Skim the surface occasionally.

4. Discard the spring onions, ginger and garlic and serve hot with rice.

Note: This dish is strongly influenced by Chinese cuisine. A traditionalist would want to use belly pork, but here use pork chop. You can use either canned, frozen or dried soy beans. If you cannot obtain either Japanese or Chinese rice wine, a dry white wine well make a good substitute as well.