Monday, November 26, 2012

Pork in Red wine and honey-mustard sauce.

One of the best lunches I've had in some time!!

You can pair it with some bread but it's so good that I didn't want to ruin its taste with bread or anything else!

If you don't have an ingredient listed here then you can improvise with what you've got. Use what meat you have, or what wine you prefer. The spring rolls are not perfect, but we used what we had at home, i can imagine more onion would suit it, grated carrot, maybe rice inside? Next time they will be different.

But go on ahead and read the recipe! :)

Ingredients for 2 people
  • 2 pork cutlets sliced up
  • Olive oil for stir frying
For the Sauce
  • 2 oranges
  • 4 tablespoons red dry wine
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 1 tablespoon mustard
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
For the fresh spring rolls
  • 4 rice papers
  • 1 package of bean sprouts
  • parley chopped up 
  • some leek
  • onion
  • black sesame
Peel the oranges, remove any seeds and cut them up. Put them in a blender along with all the ingredients for our sauce and blend until it's a puree.

Stir fry the pork strips for about 3 minutes with olive oil, then add the sauce and let it cook slowly for about half an hour, until it starts to thicken up. We had pork cutlets in hand, but you can just as easily pick up pork strips for stir frying at the store!




For the fresh spring rolls, we just used up what we had in the fridge. We chopped up some leek, onion, leek and parley and placed it along with black sesame and sprouts in a rice paper (you have to place it in warm water first so it becomes usable). You can eat them right away after wrapping them, or you may warm them up (just put them in the microwave for 3-5 minutes).


That's it! Hope you can try it out and let me know what you think :)

4 comments:

  1. My friend (Australian-Vietnamese) makes probably the best "summer rolls", she forgoes any starchy element and adds sliced omelette, spring onion, baby-leaf spinach, sprouts and grated carrot. Everything is mixed in a small bowl and dressed with a drop of sesame oil, fresh lime juice, fish sauce and a touch of sambal oelek to spice things up.

    Everything just bursts with freshness, it's definitely worth visiting an oriental store to pick up a few bottles of authentic ingredients - a little goes a long way and once you start making such excellent food at home you can never eat out again, saving you a fortune! :o)

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    1. sliced omelette? wow, sounds very different, i may try that out soon!! Thanks for the inspiration. We do get many ingredients from an oriental store, provided they are msg-free and preservative-free :)

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  2. I make spring rolls with sliced omelette too kori and they are good :D

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    1. Cool! maybe you can post a photo on your facebook ichan mou so i can see?

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