Stir-Fried Pork Fillet with Fruit and Lettuce

Name: Stir-Fried Pork Fillet with Fruit and Lettuce
Yield: Serves 3-4
Ingredients: Soy sauce; 3 tablespoons sunflower or groundnut oil; 4-5 pinches cayenne pepper; 2 large cloves garlic, sliced thinly; 75 g (3 oz) ready-to-eat dried apricots, halved lengthwise; 3 Granny Smith apples, washed but unpeeled; 2.5 cm (1 in) piece fresh root ginger, peeled and cut into thin slivers; 1 small–medium Cos lettuce, sliced across fairly thinly; Salt; 375-500 g (12 oz–1 lb) pork tenderloin, cut across into 1 cm (½ in) slices

Preparation info

Serves
3-4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cook's Companion

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1991

About

This is ideal for an informal supper after a busy day, as it takes very little time to prepare. It has the familiar English combination of pork and apple but with a Chinese character. Serve it with buttered Chinese noodles or with rice.

Ingredients

375-500 g (12 oz–1 lb) pork tenderloin, cut across into 1

Dinner
Spicy

Method

Place the slices of pork, spaced apart, between two large sheets of wet greaseproof paper. Bash with a rolling pin until thin. Heat 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil in a wok or large frying pan. Fry the pork pieces over a high heat until lightly browned on both sides then, using a slotted spoon, transf