Sticky Korean-style Pork with Fried Brown Rice & Rainbow Veg

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High protein 5 plants

Sticky Korean-style Pork with Fried Brown Rice & Rainbow Veg

Prep time: 15 mins
Total time: 25 mins
Cuisine: Korean
Food group: Pork

Free-range British pork steaks, glazed in a sticky Korean-style sauce with gochujang and honey. Brown rice, studded with pepper, carrot and sugar snap peas for veggies. If you love Korean flavours, you’ll love this dish!

Cooking Instructions

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Before you start

  • Pull out 2 large frying pans, a measuring jug & a grater

Fry the pork

  • Heat a large frying pan with 2 tsp olive oil on medium-high heat. Season the pork with salt. Once the pan is hot, add the pork and cook for 4 mins per side, until golden brown
  • In the measuring jug, combine the gochujang and honey with 100ml water, then add to the pork pan, turn to coat and simmer for 11 mins, until the pork is cooked through and the sauce thickens. Add a splash of water if it's too thick

Prep & soften the veg

  • Meanwhile, coarsely grate the carrot (peel optional). Thinly slice the peppers. Thinly slice the spring onions, keeping the green and white parts separate. Finely chop or crush the garlic
  • Heat the other large frying pan with 1 tsp olive oil on medium-high heat. Once hot, add the pepper and cook for 3-4 mins. Season with salt and pepper
  • Add the carrot, sugar snap peas, spring onion whites and garlic and cook for a further 2-3 mins, until the veg is soft

Time for rice

  • Add the rice to the veg pan along with a splash of water and the tamari. Break up the rice with a wooden spoon and cook for 2-3 mins, until piping hot. Season with salt
  • Squeeze the juice from 1 lime (or to taste) into the gochujang sauce. Season to taste

Finish & plate up

  • Check your meat is cooked through; it should be golden brown, steaming hot, the juices should run clear when cut and there should be no pink / rare meat inside
  • Remove the pork from the pan and slice against the grain
  • Serve the rice into bowls, topped with the pork. Drizzle with the gochujang sauce. Garnish with the spring onion greens and remaining lime, cut into wedges

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