Tuesday Dinner: Pork and celery stir-fry with egg drop soup

Tonight, I made super simple stir-fry and egg drop soup. Everything was done in 20 min. or so. The trick is to cook everything while rice is cooking. So, start cooking rice first, if you are having rice.






Pork and celery stir-fry (for 2-3 people):
Pork (1/4 pound) - I used lean meat, but you can use any part.
Celery (5 stems)
Ginger (1 small piece)
Sesame seeds
Salt (1/2 tsp)
Pepper
Soy sauce (1 TBS)
Cooking wine - sake (1 TBS)
Vegetable oil (2 TBS)

1. Slice pork as thinly as possible. Slice celery diagonally. Peel and julienne or just slice the ginger.
2. Heat your wok or pan on high heat with vegetable oil. Put salt in oil - it gets infused in the oil.
3. Put ginger strips and then meat in the wok. Pepper the meat and keep stirring. When the color of meat changes (still pink in some parts), throw in celery.
4. Put cooking wine and keep stirring.
5. When meat seems cooked through, put soy sauce in the work, but don't put it directly on the food. Put meat and celery aside little bit and "grill" soy sauce first before you mix them all together. This is will give smoky flavor to soy sauce.
6. Throw in sesame seeds and mix everything together.
7. Put it on a plate.

I served it with rice. I don't put stock in this stir-fry because celery gives out a good amount of juice. If you put stock in it, it gets too soggy. You could add different things to this stir-fry like chili sauce, sliced carrots, egg plants, etc.

Egg drop soup (for 2 people):
Egg (1)
Chicken stock (2 cups)
Pak Choy (3 small)
Salt (1 tsp)
Pepper

1. Chop up the pak choy.
2. Boil chicken stock in a small pot and put pak choy in it. Put salt and some pepper. Keep cooking on medium heat.
3. Beat the egg.
4. When the color is bright green, drizzle in egg little by little.
5. Close the lid for 30 sec. or so until the egg is cooked.
6. Serve it in a small bowl.

Could it get any simpler?! You still get fresh vegetable though, which I like. You can try other kinds of green vegetables like nappa cabbage and spinach. Depending on how salty the chicken stock is, adjust the amount of salt you put in the soup.

Enjoy this super easy meal!

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