Best Aromatic Soy Pork Recipes

PORK TENDERLOIN WITH AROMATIC SOY SAUCE AND SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Rub pork loin with salt and garlic. Set aside @ room temp 30 min. In a 2 qt saucepan, bring 1 qt water to boil. Turn off heat, add shrooms and let sit for 20 min. Cut off stems and squeeze to remove water. Strain shroom water into a 3 qt saucepan. Add soy sauce and set over low heat. Put sugar in Dutch oven over med high heat. Let sugar brown while stirring with a wooden spoon until it is a deep caramel color. Add soy sauce/water mixture and stir. Stir in star anise, cloves, cinnamon stock peppercorns, shrooms and 1/2 tsp salt. Simmer 20 min over med heat until sauce is reduced by 1/3 Turn oven to 200 Put a 12" cast iron skillet over med high heat. Add peanut oil. Brown pork on all sides. Put pan in oven until pork is 145 Remove pork and cover for 5-10 min. Strain reduced sauce, remove shrooms and slice. Regurn strained sauce to saucepan and add ginger. Bring to a boil over high heat. boil 30 seconds then reduce. Mix 1 T sauce with cornstarch. Add to sauce to thicken. slice pork and top with sauce. Garnish with cilantro

AROMATIC SOY PORK

Steps:

• Slice the pork into long thin strips. Put the stock, soy sauce, sherry, 5-spice powder (or paste), ginger, garlic and spring onions into a small saucepan with a lid and bring to a gentle simmer. After about 2 minutes, when the stock ingredients have got to know each other, stir in the pork, cover and let it simmer away, but not boil. It will take about 5 minutes for the pork to change colour and become firm, then you know it is cooked.
• Put the noodles in a bowl with boiling water and soak for 4 minutes. Cut the bok choi or leaves, widthways, into 2.5cm/1in slices. Drain the noodles and toss with oil and sesame seeds.
• When the pork is ready, stir in the bok choi, simmer for 1 minute. To serve, pile the noodles into a bowl, spoon pork and other bits on top, pour the broth around and scatter coriander leaves over. And don't forget to keep paper napkins handy for those noodle slurps.