With students back in school, I know that they’ll most likely be cooking or eating on a budget. Now I’m not a student anymore, but I still do try to cook or eat on a budget! Plus, I often find that cooking with a limited number of ingredients is quite fun. While I do love to plan ahead and make things according to what I purposely buy at the grocery store, I also enjoy the challenge of having to make do with what I have.
I’m a regular user of Cookpad, Japan’s most famous user-recipe-generated website. (it’s kind of like allrecipes.com but it’s in Japanese). Last week when I had a pack of minced pork sitting in my fridge, I went through the “minced pork” section and found this recipe of hikiniku (minced pork) no ankake donburi (thick sauce on rice). It took me about 15 minutes to cook it, served it for two people and even had enough for lunch the next day! It’s a great recipe for students/people on a budget. Thanks to Kenkun no mama for the recipe! Here is the English translation:
Hikiniku no ankake donburi (pork in thick sauce on rice)
Ingredients (makes 2+ servings):
- Minced pork – 150g
- Onion – 1
- Garlic – 1 clove
- * Soy sauce – 3 tbsp
- * Sugar – 1 1/2 tbsp
- Water – 100 cc
- Corn starch – 1 tbsp
- Oil
- Salt and pepper – to taste
- Bed of rice in bowl
- Chop the onion into small pieces.
- Heat a large pan and add oil. Cook the chopped onion until it turns golden brown. Then, add the minced garlic and minced pork. Cook until it changes colour.
- Add the soy sauce and sugar and thicken the ingredients with water and corn starch.
- Serve over a hot bed of rice – and you’re done!
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1 comment
Anonymous says:
Nov 17, 2011
YUM ! thanks for the post, I’ll probably try this sooner or later. Depends when I get the munchies (which is always) !