Japanese country-style pork & potatoes
Yield: 6 Servings
Ingredients:
- 8 Green onions (including -tops)
- 1 tb Salad oil
- 1 1/2 lb Lean boneless pork shoulder -trimmed of fat and cut into -1/2-inch cubes
- 1 lg Onion sliced
- 1/4 c Reduced-sodium soy sauce
- 2/3 c Sake or dry vermouth
- 1/2 c Water
- 1/2 c Mirin (sweet rice wine) or -cream sherry
- 1 1/2 lb Red thin-skinned potatoes -unpeeled cut into 1/4-inch -thick slices
- 1/4 ts Pepper
- 2 ts Sugar Trim roots and any wilted ends from green onions. The cut onions into
- 1-inch lengths
Instructions:
keeping green and white parts separate; set aside. Heat oil in a 5- to 6-quart pan over medium-high heat. Add half the pork; cook stirring until well browned (about 10 minutes). Remove from pan and keep warm. Repeat with remaining pork. Discard all but 1 tb drippings from pan. Add sliced onion to pan and cook strring occasionally until soft (about 7 minutes). Return pork to pan and add soy sake water and mirin. Bring to a boil; then reduce heat cover and simmer for 25 minutes. Add potatoes white part of green onions pepper and sugar. Return to a boil; then reduce heat cover and simmer until pork and potatoes are tender when pierced (about 25 minutes). Garnish with tops of green onions. Per serving: 378 calories (29% fat 42% carbohydrates 29% protein) 11g total fat 3g saturated fat 76mg cholesterol 36g carbohydrates 26 g protein 499 mg sodium Source: "Low Cholesterol Cookbook"
