Spicy Cashew Pork
photo by Whipper
- Ready In:
- 36mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 1 tablespoon medium-dry sherry
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- 3⁄4 lb boneless pork loin, thinly sliced,then cut into 2 by 1/4 inch strips
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 3 tablespoons peanut oil
- 2 teaspoons minced peeled fresh ginger
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dried hot red pepper flakes
- 1 large red bell pepper, cut into 1/4 inch thick strips
- 1⁄2 lb snow peas, trimmed
- 1 cup salted roasted cashews
directions
- Stir together Sherry, cornstarch, and 1 tblsp soy sauce, then stir in sesame oil.
- Add pork, stirring to coat well, and let stand 10 minutes.
- Stir together sugar and remaining 2 tblsps soy sauce.
- Heat a wok or large nonstick skillet over high heat until a bead of water dropped on cooking surface evaporates immediately.
- Add 1 1/2 tablespoons peanut oil, swirling wok to coat evenly, then stir-fry 1 teaspoon ginger, 1 teaspoon garlic, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper flakes until fragrant, about 5 seconds.
- Add bell pepper and stir-fry 2 minutes.
- Add snow peas and cashews and stir-fry until snow peas are crisp-tender, 1 to 2 minutes.
- Transfer vegetables to a bowl.
- Heat remaining 1 1/2 tablespoons peanut oil in wok until just smoking, then stir-fry remaining ginger, garlic, and pepper flakes until fragrant, about 5 seconds.
- Add pork and stir-fry, separating strips, until browned and barely cooked through, 2 to 3 minutes.
- Add vegetables and sweetened soy sauce, then stir-fry until vegetables are just heated through, about 1 minute more.
- Serve with steamed rice.
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Reviews
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Delicious! We loved this very yummy pork stir-fry. It was as good as any I've had in a restaurant. The pork was very tender and had a fabulous flavor. The added zing of the red pepper flakes was a very nice touch. I served this over jasmine rice and it was gone in a hurry. Thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe...it is defintiely a keeper! **Made for Culinary Quest - Suitcase Gourmets**
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I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.