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Home style pork & cucumber soup

Yield: 6 Servings

Ingredients:

• 1/4 lb Lean pork
• 1/2 ts Sugar
• 1/2 tb Light soy sauce
• 1/2 tb Rice wine or dry sherry
• 1 ts Cornstarch
• 1 ts Vegetable oil or Asian -sesame oil
• 1 sm Cucumber
• 4 c Chicken stock or water
• 1 qt Slice fresh ginger -lightly crushed
• 1 tb Minced Smithfield ham or

Instructions:

-prosciutto (optional) Coriander sprigs for garnish Nothing fancy about this soup++it's just simple delicious and refreshing. Cut the pork into thin slices and combine with the sugar soy sauce wine cornstarch and oil. Set aside. Peel halve and seed the cucumber. Cut crosswise into 1/4-inch thin slices. Bring stock and ginger to a boil. Add the pork and reduce to a lively simmer; simmer for 10 minutes. Add cucumber and simmer until translucent about 3 minutes. Garnish with the optional ham and coriander. Serves 6 as part of a multiple-dish Chinese meal. PER SERVING: 65 calories 6 g protein 4 g carbohydrate 2 g fat (1 g (1 g saturated) 13 mg cholesterol 101 mg sodium 0 g fiber. Joyce Jue San Francisco Chronicle 11/23/92. Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; December 2 1992.

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