Tagged: Week night dinner; quick and easy; super tasty

Another versatile dish, use your favorite vegetables and put your own spin on it. This is super quick and easy week night healthy meal. Your kids would love it too!

Ingredient:

Half a pound of lean pork, thinly sliced against the grain

1 TBSP corn starch

2 TBSP soy sauce

1 tsp Sichuan pepper corn powder, leave it out if you don’t have it

4 jalapenos

1 onion

1 green onion, sliced into 1/2 inch sections

1/8 cup of soy sauce

2 TBSP hoisin sauce

4 cloves of galic, minced

5 slices of fresh ginger, cut into strips and minced

Method:

Marinade pork slices in a small bowl with corn starch, 2 TBSP soy sauce and sichuan pepper corn powder. Mix well and set aside.

Cut jalapeno in half lengthwise, scoop out seeds and white part using a spoon and cut into bite size pieces. Cut onion into bite size pieces, separate the onion peddles, that would make stir fry a lot easier later.

Heat up about 2 TBSP vegetable oil in a nonstick pan on medium high heat. Dump pork slices into the pan and cook the meat to medium rare. Take the meat out from the pan and back into the marinating bowl for later.

Add more oil into the pan, in goes the minced garlic and ginger and stir fry until it’s fragrant. There is no need to wash the pan or wiping it down.

Add the onions and peppers and stir fry for a few minutes to take the raw edges off the vegetables. Add the pork slices back into the pan.

Add soy sauce and hoisin sauce to the pan and mix well. The sauces will help pick up any brown bits at the bottom of the pan. Because the pork had corn starch in the marinade, the sauce will thicken up nicely too and become kinda glossy.

Kill the heat, add the green onion pieces and stir through. Dish up and enjoy!

The best part of this dish? Switch up the vegetable choices and you get a different dish, the possibility is endless!

Another week night dinner go-to recipe. It’s so easy, yet sooo good! You have got to try this one.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup of long grain rice

2 TBSP vegetable oil

1 clove of garlic, minced

1 lime

1 small bunch of cilantro

Method:

Heat up oil in a medium size pot on medium high. Add rice and toast the rice until it’s golden brown. This adds a lot of flavor to the rice and makes it super fluffy.

Add the minced garlic and stir the rice for another minute. You will almost immediately smell the fragrance of the garlic clove. But don’t worry, it will not linger in the rice in the end, just adding a very subtle hint of depth.

Add 2 1/4 cup of water to the pot. while the water is heating up, zest a lime directly into the pot. Use only the green part of the lime, don’t zest the white part, since it will be bitter. Add a dash of salt as well. Give it a good stir to distribute lime zest and salt.

Once water is boiling, lid on and lower heat to low. Simmer gently for 15 minutes. Then turn off heat, leave lid on and let the rice sit in the pot and continue steaming for 10 minutes.

In the mean time, cut the lime zested, and finely chop the cilantro leaves and soft stem part.

Lid off the pot, squeeze in the juice of the lime and add chopped cilantro. Fluff the rice with a fork and mix in the cilantro. Dish up and enjoy!