Oriental salad

This Oriental salad makes a light meal on a single plate. It has brown rice, vegetables and marinated pork meat with a tamari flavor dressing.

Ingredients

2 cups rice (cooked brown rice)
1 cup asparagus (cooked, grilled asparagus tips are best)
1 cup corn (baby corn, sliced)
1⁄2 pound pork (pork fillet, cut into strips)
11 tablespoons olive oil (8 tablespoon extra virgin for dressing)
2 tablespoons vinegar (rice wine vinegar or sherry vinegar)
4 tablespoons tamari (3 tablespoons for marinade, 1 for dressing)
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt

Instructions

Place 3 Tbs olive oil and 3 Tbs tamari in a glass bowl, add diced pork fillet and stir to coat. Cover with film and leave to stand in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

Remove meat from the marinade, discarding any remaining marinade, drain and pan fry until well done.

Place olive oil, rice wine vinegar, tamari, salt and sugar in a large bowl and whisk until blended.

Add rice and stir to coat in the dressing. Add vegetables, cooked pork fillet and toss lightly.

Serve in bowls.

Yield
4 servings
Preparation time 1 hour, 15 minutes
Cooking time 10 minutes
Total time
1 hour, 25 minutes

Notes

Speed cooking tips: use canned asparagus and baby corn. Frozen or canned brown rice will also save preparation time.

Add the rice to the dressing while still warm and let it cool down in the dressing. You'll get moist rice with a more intense flavor.

If you like it hot, ad a pinch of anise pepper or five spice powder to the dressing.

Marinating time has been included in the estimated preparation time.

Source

Oriental and Western cooking fusion

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