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Lynds
Dec 23, 20203 min read

BBQ Pork and Fried Rice

A super simple pork loin marinade and a fried rice using up left over vegetables!

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I do enjoy Chinese food take out but can I just say I worry about MSG and other chemically sauces? I know there are great places out there but sometimes its hard to tell. That's why I regularly opt to make my own! The pork loin takes care of itself, the fried rice is a bit of effort but seriously I have my usual cheat for that. I cook my rice separately, it takes 20 minutes and then I create the rice dish from there... it is an amazing time/effort saver!





Here is the BBQ sauce... feel free to play around with it! I'm sure anyone can tweak this flavour and it will still be awesome. I used 1/4 cup of ketchup, 1/4 cup of BBQ sauce that I had on hand, I would pick a sweeter variety rather than super dark and bold if you can help it. I tghen added 3 Tbsp of sesame oil, 3 Tbsp of plum sauce and 2 Tbsp of garlic chili paste. 1 Tbsp of minced garlic and I tossed this up together and let sit. Soya sauce, hoisin or oyster sauce would all be suitable add in's to play with the flavour! But this was delicious as is.



I placed my tenderloins in the oven at 300 degrees with just some avocado oil and Chinese 5 spice. I cooked it like this for the first 30 minutes, then pulled it out and coated with the marinade. I cooked this for at least another 30 minutes... you want the internal temp to be 160 degrees. I know this is well done but you are cooking it on the slower side and and doing it this way leaves it super tender and it pulls apart but is still juicy! Please save at least 3 Tbsp of the sauce for the fried rice!


In the mean time I cooked my white rice in my instapot and let that cool.



I had some frozen peas, carrots and beans, like the remaining 1/8 of the bag that you can never make a full side dish out of .... how does that always happen? Anyways do a hunt for the bags of veggies you have around like that... this dish will welcome them with open arms and you just cleaned out your freezer at the same time.... for the win! I cooked the veggies in a large pan, including some white onion until thawed and added the rice with 2 Tbsp of sesame oil. I mixed this up slightly and then added the remaining marinade!... yo9u can also add soime soya sauce here, but not too much, and I seasoned with the Korean BBQ shaker I had a bit left of. Chinese 5 spice would work as well!



Crack in an egg and scramble and toss into the rice.




Time these two to be finished at the same time and slice up your tenderloin in medallion sized pieces. I also found some edamame beans in my freezer... those needed to be used as well! It fit the meal theme perfectly! Plate this out however you choose! My husband loved this meal, it hit the spot and certainly did not make us wish it was take out!




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