Sticky pork with rice pilaf

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Ingredients

• 500g pork fillet, cut across grain in 5mm slices
• ¼ cup hoisin sauce
• ¼ cup soy sauce
• ¼ cup honey
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 1/3 cup slivered almonds
• 2 cups basmati rice
• 3 cups (750mL) chicken stock (gluten-free)
• ¼ cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped

Method

Heat a large heavy-based saucepan or frypan with lid over medium heat. Add oil and onion and cook for 5 minutes or until soft. Add almonds and cook until golden brown. Add rice and stir for 1 minute to heat grains. Pour in stock and bring to the boil, stirring to prevent the rice sticking. Reduce the heat to low, cover and cook for 10-15 minutes until all stock has been absorbed and rice is tender. Keep covered while cooking pork.

Heat a non-stick frypan over medium to high heat. Add hoisin sauce, soy sauce and honey, allow to boil for 2-3 minutes until mixture thickens. Add the pork and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until cooked through.

Serve slices of pork on a mound of the rice pilaf. Spoon any leftover sauce over pork.

Notes:

• This recipe is so delicious. Sticky, sweet, salty tender pork over rice with a surprising crunch here and there.
• The rice can be cooked in advance and reheated in the microwave.
• Recipe created by Melissa Hughes for Kidspot.

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