How to Cook Pork Lo Mein
Serves: 2-4
Preparation time: 25 mins
Cooking time: 55 mins
Ingredients needed to make Pork Lo Mein:
- ½ lb pork tenderloin
For the marinade:
- 1 tsp rice wine
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp sugar
For the vegetables:
- 2 green onions, shredded
- 5-6 large assorted mushrooms, sliced into thin strips
- 1 red bell peppers, sliced into thin strips
- ½ cup bamboo shoot, sliced into thin strips
- 1 medium zucchini, sliced into 1’’ strips
- 1 tbsp fresh ginger, finely chopped
For the sauce blend:
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
- 4 tsp cornstarch
- ¼ tsp fresh ginger, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 4 tbsp peanut oil
For the noodle:
- 1 lb fresh Chinese egg noodles
- 3 ½ tbsp soy sauce, divided
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 ½ tsp rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 2 tsp peanut oil
Cooking instructions for Pork Lo Mein:
- Chop the meat into small chunks and set aside.
- Place all the ingredients of the marinade in a large bowl and whisk them thoroughly into a smooth mixture.
- Throw in the pork pieces and stir well until properly coated with the marinade.
- Add all the sauce ingredients in a separate bowl and stir them all together until mixed thoroughly.
- Bring a large pot of water into a boil and dump the noodles into it to parboil for 3 minutes.
- Drain them in a colander and rinse under running cold water to prevent the strands from sticking to each other.
- Boil more water in another pot and maintain its heat until required.
- Drizzle 2 tbsp oil in a wok and heat it over moderate heat until it shimmers.
- Throw in the veggies and stir fry for about 2-3 minutes, along with a dash of salt and a tsp of sugar; remove from heat and set aside in a bowl.
- Heat rest of the oil in the wok and throw in the marinated pork.
- Stir fry them for several minutes or until they are cooked through and brown slightly.
- Return the veggies into the wok and give them a nice stir to mix well.
- Dump the cooked noodles into the pot of hot water and let them soak for 15 seconds or until heated through.
- Drain them out into a colander and transfer them into the large bowl.
- Add its seasonings into the noodles, followed by the cooked veggie-meat mixture and toss them all together until mixed properly.
- Pile up the noodles into serving bowl and serve warm.
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