• Great for picnics, and leftovers make great lunch-box fillers.

    Lemongrass pork, mizuna and glass noodle salad

    Serves: 4
    Cooking Time: 40 mins plus extra to marinate

    Ingredients

    • MARINADE
    • 2 lemongrass stalks, thinly sliced, white bits only
    • 30ml rice wine
    • 5ml sesame oil
    • 1 chilli, seeded and thinly sliced
    • 4 garlic gloves, chopped
    • 10ml fresh ginger, chopped
    • 30ml soy sauce
    • 2 thick pork chops, bone and fat removed
    • DRESSING
    • juice of 3 limes
    • zest of 1 lime
    • 30ml peanut oil
    • 2ml sesame oil
    • 15ml honey
    • SALAD
    • 100g mizuna, washed and dried
    • 1 red onion, thinly sliced
    • 100g baby corn, chopped
    • 40g fresh coriander, chopped
    • 50g mint, chopped
    • 300g thin rice noodles, cooked
    • salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

    Instructions

    1

    Mix together the ingredients for the marinade and cover the pork chops. Marinate for about 1 hour. Preheat the oven to maximum setting.

    2

    Place the pork chops on a baking tray and roast until cooked through and golden. Rest for a few minutes before slicing into thin strips.

    3

    Mix together the dressing ingredients.

    4

    Toss the salad ingredients with the sliced meat. Pour over the dressing and mix well. Serve at room temperature.