South Asian Pork Soboro

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Ingredients

• 1 medium pack of minced pork
• a cluster of shimeji mushrooms, roughly chopped
• 4 or 5 stalks of spring onions, chopped
• maggi seasoning
• kecap manis
• white pepper
• mirin
• maggi chili sauce
• ginger and garlic, finely chopped
• handful of chopped peanuts
• sesame oil

"Tori Soboro" is a Japanese dish made with minced chicken. This is a South Asian-influenced version, made with pork. It is a comforting, sweet-savoury dish that is best served simply on top of steaming white rice.

I'll admit that this is a dish I threw together mostly out of pantry ingredients...but it turned out tasty :)

Makes 2 portions.

1. Fry together the pork, ginger and garlic in a wok with a little oil. Add a splash of mirin, a glug of kecap manis and chilli sauce, and a liberal dousing of maggi seasoning.

2. Add the chopped shimeji mushrooms (you can substitute another variety of asian mushroom if you cannot get shimeji). Move around the wok until the meat is cooked through.

3. Turn the heat off. Stir through the chopped spring onions and chopped peanuts. Drizzle a little sesame oil, season generously with white pepper and give everything a good stir. Heap onto bowls of rice.

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  iconsam says

  Damn this looks good. If you want to go with your meat + fruit theme, I can see this with a bit of chopped up dried apricots.

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  yongfook says

  that sounds like a fabulous addition - cheers!

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  dubow says

  This looks absolutely delicious! Can I have mine with few slices of Takuan on top?! :) Ta.

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  tommy says

  Looks really good, kecap manis is a magic ingredient! Question: maggi chilli sauce - is it the sweet or garlic one?

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  yongfook says

  I just used the regular sweet one.

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  MsNyanko says

  i'm giving u 1 star =P jk...maybe 2

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  chimp says

  if i dont have maggie seasoning... what can i use as substitute? can i just add more kecap manis? thank you

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  yongfook says

  hmmm good question. maggie seasoning is quite salty and kecap manis is quite sweet, so if you want to use something as a substitute for maggie seasoning just use soy sauce. but it will taste different - you need the seasoning!

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  joannajane says

  mmm this looks like a bit like mums minced pork!

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  jawats says

  I must try this. Next on my list!

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  jawats says

  Made it with ground turkey and sriracha - wonderful!

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  ish4269 says

  Tried it with a čevap čiči mince (equal parts pork, lamb, beef), worked a treat.

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