Home style pork and cucumber soup
- Main Ingredient: Pork
- Course: Various soups and stews
- Cuisine: Chinese
- Special food: Ethnic
- Yield:
Home style pork and cucumber soup ingredients
- 1⁄4 lb Lean pork
- 1⁄2 t Sugar
- 1⁄2 T Light soy sauce
- 1⁄2 T Rice wine or dry sherry
- 1 t Cornstarch
- 1 t Vegetable oil or Asian
- Sesame oil
- 1 small Cucumbers
- 4 c chicken stock or water
- 1 qt Slice fresh ginger
- - lightly crushed
- 1 T Minced Smithfield ham or
- -prosciutto (optional)
- Coriander sprigs for garnish
Cooking Home style pork and cucumber soup
1. Nothing fancy about this soup++it"s just simple, delicious and refreshing.
2. Cut the pork into thin slices and combine with the sugar, soy sauce, wine, cornstarch and oil. Set aside.
3. Peeli, halve and seed the cucumber.
4. Cut crosswise into ¼-inch thin slices.
5. Bring stock and ginger to a boil.
6. Add the pork and reduce to a lively simmer; simmer for 10 minutes.
7. Add cucumber and simmer until translucent, about 3 minutes.
8. Garnishi with the optional ham and coriander.
9. Serves 6 as part of a multiple-dish chinese meal.
10. 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.
11. Joyce jue, san francisco chronicle, 1½3/92.
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