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Braised pork with plums
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Braised pork with plums

15 ingredients 25 min Serves 8 openrecipes
Braised pork with plums

Meltingly tender meat in a spicy, fruity sauce, this meal is guaranteed to impress

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

923
Calories
66g
Protein
32g
Fat
85g
Carbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 13 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Pork 100g cooked 242
Rice 1 cup cooked (158g) white 206
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Plum 1 medium (66g) 30
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Soy Sauce 1 tbsp (15ml) 9
Cinnamon 1 tsp ground (2.6g) 6
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2
Star Anise not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • about 1.6kg/3lb 8oz pork shoulder
  • 5 tbsp rice wine
  • 5 tbsp light soy sauce for flavour, 1 tbsp dark for colour
  • generous thumb-size piece fresh root ginger
  • 5 garlic cloves
  • 1 red chilli , deseeded and finely chopped
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • bunch spring onions , finely sliced
  • 2 star anise
  • 1 ½ tsp five-spice powder
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 2 tbsp sugar , any type
  • 1 tbsp tomato purée
  • 500ml chicken stock
  • 6 ripe plums , halved and stoned

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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