Slow-Cooked Hoisin Pork with Pickled Vegetable Salad

Slow-Cooked Hoisin Pork with Pickled Vegetable Salad

This sticky, hoisin pork recipe is easy – thanks to our 14-hour-slow-cooked pulled pork! You'll simply heat it up with honey and hoisin, until fall-apart tender. Dish up with brown rice, pickled carrots and sesame seeds. Delish.

5 plants

Serving size

Cook time: 35 mins
Cuisine: Chinese
Food group: Pork
Allergens: Sesame, Soya

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Cooking Instructions

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Before you start

  • Bring a large saucepan filled with salted water to a boil
  • Pull out a medium saucepan, a large bowl & a peeler

Get the rice on

  • Add the rice to the saucepan of boiling water and boil for 25-30 mins, until cooked, then drain

Pickle the veg

  • Meanwhile, cut the cucumber into matchsticks. Peel the carrots into ribbons. Trim and thinly slice the radishes into rounds. Place everything in the large bowl with the vinegar, half the honey, a pinch of salt and 2 tsp olive oil. Mix to combine

Simmer the pork

  • When the rice has 10 mins left to cook, heat the medium saucepan with 1 tsp oil. Once hot, add the pork to the pan, along with all the juices from the bag. Gently pull apart any larger pieces and simmer for 3-4 mins
  • Add the hoisin sauce and cook for a final 1-2 mins, until piping hot. Stir in the remaining honey.

Finish the rice

  • Thinly slice the spring onions. When ready, return the cooked rice to the saucepan and stir in half the sesame oil and a pinch of salt to taste.

Plate up

  • Serve the rice in bowls topped with the pork and pickled salad. Sprinkle the spring onions and sesame seeds on top. Drizzle over the remaining sesame oil

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