Friday, December 30, 2011

Pork-and -Pineapple Fried Rice


Yesterday was a busy day getting ready for NYE and also going to therapy.  When we got home I collapsed for a while and then proceeded to kind of follow the following recipe.   I found this recipe on the internet.  It does not give the serving quantity, but easily 4. 
Ingredients:
¼ C Low sodium soy sauce
1 T hoisin sauce
1T rice vinegar
3 T canola oil
4 oz of ground pork
3 small Chinese sausages, thinly sliced or you may substitute matchstick slices of maple-cured bacon
3 scallions, white and green parts minced
1 T minced fresh ginger
½ t minced garlic
1 red hot chile, seeded and minced
4C cold cooked jasmine rice
¼ C cilantro
¼ C finely diced fresh pineapple 
Directions:
1.      In a small bowl, whisk the soy sauce, hoisin and vinegar.
2.      Heat a wok or large skillet. 
3.      Add the oil and heat until smoking.
4.      Add the pork, bacon and cook over high heat, stirring until the pork is lightly browned about 2 minutes. 
5.      Add the minced scallion, ginger, garlic and chile and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. 

6.      Add the rice, breaking up any lumps as you stir fry.  Add the hoisin-soy sauce.  Heat thoroughly.
7.      Finally add the cilantro and pineapple. 
The only thing I did different is that I had 3 smoked pork chops left over from the Loveless Café that we went to the day before.  Instead of adding the pork in step 4 as it was already cooked, I added it in step 6.  We though the chops really added to the flavor of the dish.  Unless you can find Chinese sausages, maybe instead of using bacon as suggested, use a flavorful Adele sausage.
More about the Loveless Café, this is a Tennessee landmark, and is definitely southern cooking and portions.  We enjoyed it and look forward to taking guests there in the future.  The pastry chef has just written a cookbook.  We were too full for dessert, but in the future I plan to eat less biscuits and save room for dessert.  The guy at the table next to us had both banana pudding and chocolate peanut butter pie! 

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