Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Sweet Soy Pork with Potato Chips



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This is an Indonesian-inspired dish from Jaden's upcoming Steamy Kitchen cookbook.

It's ground pork cooked with kecap manis (sweet soy sauce) and served with potato chips. Potato chips! Genius.

I felt the same curiosity and surprise when I first heard about lomo saltado, a Peruvian beef stir-fry with French fries, and thit bo xao voi khoai tay chien, a Vietnamese beef stir-fry also with French fries.

In this case, I tried "oven-frying" the chips, but they didn't turn out too crisp. They were more like round fries than chips. As with the two stir-fries mentioned, we, of course, enjoyed this dish with white rice.




Lomo Saltado & Thit Bo Xao Voi Khoai Tay Chien info
at Wandering Chopsticks
at Tasty Meals at Home

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Posts featuring recipes tested from Jaden's Steamy Kitchen cookbook:
Tea-smoked Salmon Sandwich with Sweet Dijon Mustard
Shrimp Chips with Five-Spice Beef
Kimchi Fried Rice, an addiction
Crispy Tofu with Sweet Chili Soy Sauce
Sweet Soy Pork with Potato Chips

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Posted by TS of eatingclub vancouver at 2:20 PM
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9 comments:

  1. Looks delicious but I think I'd prefer to eat it with rice (I *love* rice more than potatoes!) :)
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  2. Since I love the beef sauteed with French fries, it doesn't take much to convince me to eat ground pork with potato chips. :)
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  3. How interesting serving this with potatoes like that
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  4. Your food pictures look amazing! I’d love to know how your setup is when picturing your food.

    Charles
    http://pampanguenacafe.wordpress.com
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  5. Looks deelish! You may consider following the crisping through with the microwave if you have one :)
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  6. That looks like a tasty meal! I am going to have to look for some sweet soy sauce.
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  7. Joelen:
    The potatoes were part of the pork dish, so all of that got eaten with rice! (As ulam.)

    Wandering Chopsticks:
    Yes! Ours turned out a little too sweet, so I had to add plain soy sauce to balance it out. But, potato chips! How can one go wrong.

    Charles:
    We mostly rely on natural light and I just have a point-and-shoot. I don't even know exactly what kind of camera it is. Canon.

    Manggy:
    Oh! I didn't know that! (Re crisping in the microwave.)

    Kevin:
    I'm not sure if kecap manis is in the regular supermarkets now. It should be! =)
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  8. What a great way to eat chips.
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  9. KC:
    Definitely. Although, I don't need any extra incentive to eat potato chips. =)
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