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Slow-cooked Hoisin Pork with Brown Rice & Pickled Vegetable Salad
Our melt-in-your-mouth British slow-cooked pork is simmered with sweet hoisin and sticky honey, then served alongside fluffy brown rice. A vibrant pickled salad, starring bright carrots, crunchy radish and cooling cucumbers, brings in the perfect lift. Finish with a sprinkle of sesame seeds and you're ready to dig in!
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Serving size
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp rice vinegar (Rice Vinegar, Salt)
- 200g brown rice (100% Brown Rice)
- 50g honey
- 1 tsp black sesame seeds (Sesame)
- 550g 6 hour slow-cooked pork (pork collar, tapioca starch, salt, garlic powder, sage, black pepper, bay leaf.)
- 12 tbsp hoisin sauce (Soya) (Water, Miso Paste (Water, Soybeans, Rice, Salt), Date Syrup, Soy Sauce (Water, Soybeans Salt, Rice, Ethyl alcohol), Tomato Paste, Cornflour, Salt, Garlic, Acidity Regulator: Acetic Acid, Chinese Five Spice (Fennel Seed, Cassia, Black Pepper, Star Anise, Cloves), Cayenne Pepper)
- 1 cucumber
- 2 tbsp sesame oil (Sesame)
- 2 carrot
- 3 radish
- 3 spring onion
Nutritional Information
Calories: 698
Protein: 32g
Carbs: 68g
Fat: 33g
Slow-cooked Hoisin Pork with Brown Rice & Pickled Vegetable Salad
Our melt-in-your-mouth British slow-cooked pork is simmered with sweet hoisin and sticky honey, then served alongside fluffy brown rice. A vibrant pickled salad, starring bright carrots, crunchy radish and cooling cucumbers, brings in the perfect lift. Finish with a sprinkle of sesame seeds and you're ready to dig in!
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Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- Bring a large saucepan filled with salted water to a boil
- Pull out a medium saucepan, a large bowl, a sieve & 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
- Add all to the large bowl with the vinegar, half the honey, 2 tsp olive oil and a pinch of salt. Mix to combine
Simmer the pork
- When the rice has 10 mins remaining, heat the medium saucepan with 1 tsp oil on medium heat. Once hot, add the pork (with all the juices from the bag). Gently pull apart any larger pieces of pork 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 into bowls, topped with the pork and pickled salad. Sprinkle the spring onion and sesame seeds on top. Drizzle over the remaining sesame oil
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