Miso Pork Noodle

 

What can you cook at home for one person? This is what I whipped up today- miso pork soup, inspired by dailydelicious. Simple meal but still delicious. 

Ingredients:

200g minced pork

1 tsp minced garlic

1 tsp minced ginger

dashes of white pepper powder

1/2 tsp chilli paste (add more if you like it to be spicier)

1/2 tablespoon miso paste 

1 tsp soy sauce

1 tablespoon sugar

1 Japanese dashi (Japanese soup stock) packet (refer to Just one cookbook for good writeup on dashi)

2 tablespoon Japanese sesame dressing

200ml water

50ml milk

160g dried pumpkin noodles or any noodles you prefer.

Method:

1. Put water and dashi packet in a small pot and bring to a boil. Then, lower stove heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Shake the dashi packet a few times to release the flavours from the packet. Set aside.

2. Heat up wok with cooking oil. Stir fry garlic and ginger under medium heat until fragrant. Add minced pork followed by white pepper powder and stir fry under high heat until pork is cooked through. Then, reduce the heat to low and push the pork to the side of the wok. Put chilli paste, miso paste and sugar into wok, and stir fry for a minute under low heat. After one minute, mix in the pork and stir fry under medium heat.

3. While cooking the pork, cook the noodles as per package instructions. Transfer the noodles to serving bowl.

4. Bring the soup to a boil and ladle into the serving bowl. Then add the pork, top with scallions, a few drops of chilli oil and toasted white sesame seeds. Enjoy!