Pork

I've been working on ways to make the most of a piece of meat; making as many meals as possible and making dinners interesting.
New World has recently had small pork leg roasts for sale at around $21 each and I can make 4 meals from that.
I cut 1/3 off the roast, leaving the skin behind for extra crackling later, and make sweet and sour pork.  If you find a recipe that uses a batter for the pork it makes a bigger meal (with teenagers I'm always looking to extend a meal and make it more filling). I also add bamboo sprouts, water chestnuts and straw mushrooms as they're cheap and add great taste as well as texture to the dish
I then roast the pork the next day with plenty of vegetables and apples, pears or quinces.

Note; rather than having 4 meals of pork in a row, I freeze the pork after cutting a section off for sweet and sour pork. 
 
The third meal is Ramen and the fourth is Apricot and Pork Pizza

Ramen

Serves 5 

 

Ingredients

• Roasted Pork, sliced (one or two slices per person)

Soup

• 6 cups water 
• Pork bone from the roast
• 50g ginger root, sliced
• 3 cloves garlic, skinned
• 1 bunch spring onions
• 4 Tbsp soy sauce
• 2 Tbsp sake or dry white wine 
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• 4 Tbsp Miso paste
• Noodles (I use a thick wholemeal noodle, but use any kind that your family prefers)
• Options; sweet corn (baby corn or kernels), lemon slices, bamboo shoots, choy, carrots

Topping

• boiled egg halves (optional)
• bean sprouts
• green onions, cut finely
• Nori sheets, 1/2 a sheet per person (optional)

Instructions

1. In a pot, put water, ginger root, garlic, green onions and pork bone, and boil at high heat. Skim fat and other floating scums. Then cover, reduce to low heat, and simmer for 10 minute.
2. Prepare the rest of the toppings now as well (boiled eggs, cut green onions)
3. Add the noodles to the soup along with the rest of the soup ingredients, let it simmer at very low heat until noodles are ready. Add the sliced pork just before the noodles are cooked to allow it to heat through.
4.  Immediately divide noodles into bowls. Top with boiled eggs, bean sprouts, green onions. 
5. Crumble nori sheets over the top.