Pork Rib Chow Mein

Another quick and easy dinner, super versatile. Just change out the protein to whatever you like, or cut it out all together for a meatless version.

Ingredients:

1 lb pork ribs, ask your butcher to cut it into 1 inch sections, then cut them into pieces

1 yellow onion, half if it is large

1 orange bell pepper

a handful of asparagus

2 green onions

4 large eggs

1 Roma tomato

1 inch knob of fresh ginger

4 cloves of garlic

1/4 cup of soy sauce

2 TBSP oyster sauce

1 TBSP Hoisin sauce

1 tsp chicken bullion powder

about 1 inch bundle of noodles of your choice. I used Chinese style dried noodles

1 cinnamon stick (optional)

2 star anise (optional)

1 bay leaf (optional)

Method:

Slice ginger into thin slices, reserve about 4 slices, put rest of the ginger, cinnamon stick, star anise, bay leaf and rib pieces into a pot, fill with water, enough to cover everything. Bring to a gentle boil and simmer for 30 minutes. I snapped the asparagus hard stem part off and threw the hard parts into the rib pot.

In the mean time, I whipped up a dump cake, and threw the dessert into the oven to bake.

On the cutting board, I prepared all the vegetables. Thinly sliced the onion, cut the orange bell pepper into thin strips, cut asparagus at a diagonal, and lightly scored the tip of the tomato and put it into the rib water to poach for 20 seconds. I took it out with a slotted spoon, easily peeled it and cut it into small chunks.

I minced the garlic and cut the ginger into thin slices, then thin strips then minced it.

Once the ribs are fork tender, use the slotted spoon to take out all the solids from the pot into a large bowl. Rib pieces can be easily fished out later when needed. But the boiling water is needed to boil the noodle now.

Put about 4 servings of noodles into the pot and boil per instruction.

In a large nonstick pan, add oil and heat it on medium high heat. Once oil is heated up, crack the eggs directly into the pan, then stir fry using a wooden spoon. Poke the yokes first and stir it up. No need to dirty up another bowl, you will never tell the difference.

Once eggs are scrambled, push the eggs to the outer edge, add about 2 more TBSP oil in the center, dump the vegetables into the center and stir fry the veggies for a minute. Mix up eggs and vegetables. Add ribs from the bowl. Add all the seasoning into the pan and mix well. Stir fry until noodles are done. Fish out the noodles and put them directly into the vegetable and rib mixture.

Mix well and let noodles soak up all the flavor. Use 2 wooden spoons as needed. If desired, turn off heat and sprinkle some finely sliced green onions for garnish and flavoring. Dish up and enjoy!