Home Style Pork and Cucumber Soup

Recipe Ingredients

1/4 lb	113g / 4oz	Lean pork
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Sugar
1/2 tablespoon	7.5ml	Light soy sauce
1/2 tablespoon	7.5ml	Rice wine or dry sherry
1 teaspoon	5ml	Cornstarch
1 teaspoon	5ml	Vegetable oil or Asian - sesame oil
1 teaspoon	5ml	Cucumber (small)
4 cups	948ml	Chicken stock or water
1		Fresh ginger - lightly crushed
1 tablespoon	15ml	Minced Smithfield ham or - prosciutto (optional
		Coriander sprigs for garnish

Recipe Instructions

Nothing fancy about this soup--it's just simple, delicious and refreshing. Cut the pork into thin slices and combine with the sugar, soy sauce, wine, cornstarch and oil. Set aside.

Peel, halve and seed the cucumber. Cut crosswise into 1/4-inch thin slices.

Bring stock and ginger to a boil.

Add the pork and reduce to a lively simmer; simmer for 10 minutes. Add cucumber and simmer until translucent, about 3 minutes.

Garnish with the optional ham and coriander.

Serves 6 as part of a multiple-dish Chinese meal.

Joyce Jue, San Francisco Chronicle, 11/23/92.

Source:
Jo Anne Merrill

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