Stir-fried Greens with Pork, Shiitakes, and Black Bean Sauce

Name: Stir-fried Greens with Pork, Shiitakes, and Black Bean Sauce
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps black bean garlic sauce; 340 grams baby bok choy or yu choy; 340 grams broccolini or Chinese broccoli (gailan); 3 Tbsps peanut or canola oil, divided; 296 milliliters warm reduced-sodium chicken broth; 2 Tbsps fresh ginger, cut into thin matchsticks; 1 larges onion, cut into lengthwise slivers; 2 boned pork chops (8 oz. total), fat trimmed; 12 whole dried shiitake mushrooms

Stir-fried Greens with Pork, Shiitakes, and Black Bean Sauce might be a good recipe to expand your main course collection. This gluten free, dairy free, and whole 30 recipe serves 4. One serving contains 284 calories, 21g of protein, and 16g of fat. Head to the store and pick up onion, bean garlic sauce, boned pork chops, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the fresh ginger you could follow this main course with the Fresh Ginger Cookies as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

Put pork chops on a sheet of plastic wrap and wrap airtight. Freeze just until firm to the touch, at least 2 and up to 3 hours.

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Pork Chops

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Cut into very thin diagonal slices.

In a small bowl, soak mushrooms in chicken broth until soft and pliable, 20 to 30 minutes; occasionally work mushrooms with your fingers to release any grit. Lift mushrooms from broth, squeezing out liquid. Gently fold each mushroom in half, gill side out, and trim off any hard stems.

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Broth

Mushrooms

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Bowl

Pour 1/2 cup soaking broth into a measuring cup and set aside.

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Broth

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Measuring Cup

Pour 1/4 cup broth into another measuring cup, leaving grit behind, and add water if needed to make 1/4 cup; stir in black bean sauce.

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Black Bean Sauce

Broth

Water

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Meanwhile, trim ends from green vegetables. Peel broccolini stems, then cut into 3-in. lengths (if wider than 1/3 in., also halve lengthwise). Rinse and set aside.

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Broccolini

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Cut remaining green vegetables into 3-in. lengths, separating clusters of bok choy into single stalks; rinse together and drain.

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Vegetable

Bok Choy

Set a wok or 5- to 6-qt. pan over high heat. When hot, pour in 2 tbsp. oil and swirl to coat.

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Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

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Add pork, onion, and ginger and fry, stirring occasionally, until meat is mostly cooked but still a bit pink, 1 to 1 1/2 minutes.

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Ginger

Onion

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Pork

Transfer ingredients to a plate with a slotted spoon.

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Add broccolini stems, shiitakes, and reserved 1/2 cup soaking broth to pan and cover quickly. Cook until stems are barely tender-crisp, 1 to 2 minutes. Uncover and add remaining 1 tbsp. oil and rest of green vegetables. Cook, stirring, until leaves and flowers wilt, 1 to 1 1/2 minutes. Return pork mixture to pan along with reserved black bean liquid; cook until bubbling.

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Broccolini

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Shiitake Mushrooms

Broth

Pork

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Frying Pan

*Look for black bean garlic sauce in your supermarket's Asian-foods section. Buy Chinese broccoli and yu choy at a farmers' market or an Asian market.

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Broccoli