Stir Fried Lean Pork with Rosemary

My neighbour had given me a small plate of petai ( bitter bean or stink bean ) with minced pork with belacan. I added aubergine as to make it a bigger portion of vegetables in order to have a balance diet.

Ingredient to be added to enhance the taste for petai :
chopped onion ( half )
belacan
a spoonful of chilli paste
1/2 tbsp fish sauce
1/4 tsp sugar

The real cooking was the "Stir Fried Lean Pork with Rosemary".
Ingredients:
150 g lean pork

A.
1 tbsp dried rosemary
1/2 tsp garlic peper ( salt free)
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp sugar
1 tsp dark sauce

B. Some chopped garlic, ginger and shallot.

Method:
1. Marinate lean pork with (A) for 15 mins ( or 30 mins).
2. Fry chopped garlic, ginger and shallot until golden in colour.
3. + marinated lean pork . Stir fry for 2 mins with high heat,  + 1/4 cup of water.
4. Fry ( * without covering the wok or frying pan) until the pork become quite dry before serving.

Easy Stir-fried Pork with Button Mushroom : ( Chinese style)

Button mushroom is one of my favourite mushroom.

But I seldom take this because it is canned food here.

A simple to cook button mushroom is to cook with either chicken or pork.

Easy Stir-fried Pork with Button Mushroom : ( Chinese style)

Ingredients :

200 g pork slices

1 Onion cut into wedges

A can of button mushroom

Method: 

1.    Marinate 200 g pork slices with : 

1/2 tbsp corn flour

1/8 tsp salt

1/2 tbsp soy sauce 

1/2 tsp sugar

1 tsp dark sauce

1/8 tsp pepper

1 tbsp sesame sauce

2. Heat  2 tbsp oil in frying pan and stir fry the pork for 3 mins + a can of button mushroom + half a cup of water. Covered the pan and simmer for 3 mins. 

And some photos shooting on the same day.

Savoury Minced Lean Pork with Potatoes

Minced pork with potatoes is always an easy dish to prepare.

But , I would like to have something salty and spicy.

So, preserved salted black beans ( dou chi , 豆豉）and curry leave were added in this dish in order to enhance the taste of the potatoes.

Those minced pork was prepared a day ahead.

Lunch Menu :

1. Savoury Minced Lean Pork with Potatoes-  with preserved black beans and chillies 

2. Stir-fried mustard green - without salt.

Savoury Minced Pork with Potatoes: ( for 1 person)
Ingredient :
100 g precooked minced lean pork ( marinated with salt , soy sauce , sugar and dark sauce , steak sauce and sesame sauce)

2 potatoes , cut into small cubes (in order to shorten the cooking time )
1 tbsp preserved salted black beans ( 珠江豆豉）
4 small chillies ( depends hot spicy you like )
some curry leaves
1/2 tsp sugar

Method :
1. Fry potatoes + 2 tbsp of oil.
2. + preserved salted black beans + small chillies.
3. + minced lean pork.
4. + sugar + 3/4 cup of water to simmer until the potatoes become soft.

Tomato and Tofu with Pork

These were what I could find in the fridge : 

a tomato and half of a tofu, green chilli, long beans egg and some fried pork.

The lemongrass was cut from the backyard.

" Worcestershire Steak Sauce " was added in order to enhance the taste of these vegetables ( tomato and tofu needs more salt to taste ) and the pork.

Lunch Menu :

1. Fried Tomato, Tofu with Pork

2. Omelette with Long Beans

Recipe of Fried Tomato, Tofu with Pork :
Ingredients:
1 stalk lemongrass
1/ 2 piece of Tofu
Wedges of tomatoes
2 small cut green chilli
Pork (I used cooked pork)
Chopped garlic

Seasoning:
salt and pepper, sugar
1 tbsp Worcestershire Steak Sauce
Black pepper
1/3 cup of water

Method:
1. Stir fried lemongrass with chopped garlic and some oil.
2. + tofu and tomato + cut green chilli
3. + fried pork + Worcestershire Steak Sauce + black pepper
4. + water + salt and pepper, sugar to taste.

Stir Fried Black Pepper Pork Slices

Dinner at 9pm.

There were 2 types of vegetables but I fried them in the same frying pan as I was too hungry to separate both of them.

Dinner Menu :

1. Saute French Beans and Capsicum - no salt.

2. Stir Fried Black Pepper Pork Slices.

Stir Fried Black Pepper Pork Slices:

Slices of pork tenderloin *

fish sauce

black pepper

sugar 

dark soy sauce 黑酱油 

Method :

1. Marinate pork slices with fish sauce + sugar + black pepper + dark sauce.

2. Heat oil in a non-stick frying pan  + garlic + pork . Stir fried  for 2 mins .

3. + 1/10 cup of water , cover.  Fried again for another 2 mins until the water dry up.


* The important thing to remember when cooking pork tenderloin is not to overcook the meat or it will become dry out and toughen.

Spicy Lemongrass Pork

I like the taste of lemongrass.

That is the first time adding lemongrass to pork.
It was quite a pleasant dinner with a bowl of barley water after having spicy food.

Dinner Menu :

1. Spicy Lemongrass Pork 

2.Green Capsicum - boiled in water ,without salt and oil

2.French Bean - boiled in water , without salt and oil

4. Dessert - Barley and ginkgo nuts water - from neighbour

Spicy Lemongrass Pork :

Spicy lemongrass paste :(Ingredients pound with mortar and pestle, and fry until fragrant later.)

2 stalks of lemongrass
5 dried chilli
5 cloves of garlic
1 onion

a sprig of curry leaves

Method :
1. Marinta pork with cornflour + salt + black soy sauce + sugar.
2. + spicy lemongrass paste + curry leaves ---- fry for 1 mins + 30 ml water( depends on how much meat you use) . Cover and cook until the pork almost dry up.

Slices of Pork Curry with Kaffir Lime Leaves

Cooking curry using those leftover ingredients in the fridge.

Those ingredients were tamarind, dried chilli , lemongrass ,ginger ,onion, garlic and the kaffir lime leaves which was quite dry as I plucked them few days ago.

The kaffir lime leaves need to be shredded before cooking in order to bring out the aroma of the leaves.

Lunch  Menu :

1. Slices of Pork Curry with kaffir lime leaves.

Kaffir lime leaves adding an aromatic and astringent flavour to the pork curry and it really made me want to cook this curry again in future.

2. Fried Kangkong (water convolvulus ) with garlic. 

The kangkong was also lying in the fridge for 3 days as you can see that they are yellowish in the leaves.

Easy Pork Curry Recipe:

The ingredient of curry paste for a small bowl of pork curry:

A :

1 onion 

1/2 garlic

1 segment of ginger

(little finger size) turmeric

2 pc dried chilli ( you can put more - own preference )

3 stalks of lemongrass

B:

3 pcs kaffir lime leaves

2 tomatoes

100 gpork slices

2 tbsp curry powder for meat

Seasoning :

2 tbsp curry powder

salt and pepper

sugar

Method：

1. Pound A  with pestle and mortar.  Fried A until fragrant with medium heat to avoid burning.

2. + pork slices + tomato + kaffir lime leaves + curry powder

3. Seasoning - salt and pepper , sugar.

Long Queue Roast Pork stall near Bugis , Singapore

My friend ML who works in Singapore never like to eat in any food court .

She had already told me that the environment of this food stall ( kopitiam ) near Waterloo Street, Bugis ( Somewhere near the 100 years Kwan Yin Thong Hood Cho Temple 观音堂佛祖庙) was a little shabby and unpresentable .

But , but the roast pork is "thumbs up standard" .

She highly recommended me this and brought me there for a try of the food.

Ok, why not give a try ? I told myself.

There was a long queue of customers in front of the stall. 
That's the sign of "good food" here !

It proved that the roast pork of char siew and siu yuk was really good and delicious.

The boss is generously giving big bowl of sauce to the customer too.

$ 8 for the combination of roast pork and roast duck.

This's not the restaurant that we were dining in but it was next to the shabby restaurant.