Quick pork and mushroom stew with vermicelli

It's a go-to-recipe for your busy weeknights that comes together in around 30minutes. With plenty of veggie goodness and flavours, second serves are guaranteed!

• serves

  4

• prep

  15 minutes

• cook

  20 minutes

• difficulty

  Easy

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Ingredients

• 8 dried shiitake mushrooms
• 750 ml (3 cups) hot water
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil
• 2 slices ginger
• 2 garlic cloves
• 600 g skinless pork belly, cut into 1 cm wide strips
• ½ Chinese cabbage, cut into 5 cm pieces
• 5 thick spring onions, sliced on a sharp diagonal
• 2 tbsp oyster sauce
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp Shaoxing wine
• 150 g enoki mushrooms
• 120 g mung bean vermicelli (glass noodles)

Cut chilli sauce

• 4 bird’s eye chillies, thinly sliced
• 1 garlic clove, thinly sliced
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 lemon, juiced
• pinch of sugar

Instructions

1. Soak the mushrooms in the hot water for 30 minutes. Remove the mushrooms from the soaking liquid and trim off the stalks, reserving the liquid.
2. Heat a heavy based frying pan over medium heat and add the oil, ginger and garlic. Fry for 1 minute or until fragrant, then add the pork belly, cabbage, spring onions, oyster sauce, soy sauce and Shaoxing wine. Mix well, then pour in the mushroom soaking liquid, cover and simmer for 15 minutes or until the cabbage is wilted and the pork is tender.
3. Taste the liquid and adjust the seasoning as required. Add the enoki mushrooms and mung bean vermicelli and simmer for about 3 minutes or until the mushrooms are softened and the vermicelli has absorbed the liquid.
4. Meanwhile, for the cut chilli sauce, place all the ingredients in a small bowl and stir to combine.
5. Serve the stew with the chilli sauce on the side.

 

Photography by Kitti Gould.

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Cook's Notes

Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55-60 g, unless specified.

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