Ginger Pork with soba noodle salad

This pork dish is healthy and quick to make, great for a weeknight dinner and it’s delicious. With a quick marinade in sake and ginger juice, the pork is tenderised and any meaty smells vanish.

The accompanying soba noodle salad can have any vegetable ingredients you like, but I love the crunch of the endamame. I keep a packet of frozen endamame in the freezer and throw it into salads often.

This recipe serves 2 but is easily adaptable for more.

300g piece of pork fillet
2 tsp sake (Japanese rice wine)
1 tsp ginger juice (squeeze juice out of grated ginger)
1 tbsp vegetable oil

Ginger Sauce

2 tbsp sake (Japanese rice wine)
1 tbsp mirin
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tbsp grated ginger
1 tbsp thinly sliced ginger

Soba Noodle Salad

100g Soba or buckwheat (Zaru soba) noodles
1/2 cup frozen Endamame cooked in microwave
1 Grated carrot
1/2 Thinly sliced yellow/red capsicum
1/2 cup bean shoots
1 red chilli finely chopped
Dressing: 1 tablespoon Mirin, 1/2 sesame oil, 1/2 tsp vegetable oil, Lime juice

Method

1. Marinated pork fillet in sake and ginger juice

2. Very thinly slice pork

3. Mix ginger sauce ingredients in a bowl.

4. Heat oil in a non-stick (preferred) frypan over medium high heat.

5. Pan fry the the pork, browning on both sides, then adding the sauce sauce, cooking for 2-3 minutes until cooked but tender. try to keep pork flat during this process, not like stir fry.