Welcome to our kitchen and thank you for dropping by! If you're new here and like what you see, please subscribe to our feed:
Subscribe in a reader OR Subscribe to Cooked From the Heart by Email
Coconut Flavored Pork Stirfry
Because we’ve been enjoying the virgin coconut oil that we received from Tropical Traditions, I have been using it in almost every dish I cooked in the last week or two. This is one dish that was quickly put together on a weeknight and a delicious change from our usual stirfry dish. You can taste and smell the coconut oil but it’s not overpowering. It’s just the right balance to make you think about what that different flavor is.
If you’d like to try some virgin coconut oil, make sure you enter the Virgin Coconut Oil Giveaway on my review blog, Found Not Lost.
INGREDIENTS:
1-2 lbs. Pork Loin, sliced into bite sized strips
6-8 cloves Garlic, minced
2 Tablespoons Tamarind Puree
2 Tbsp. Oyster Sauce
1 Tbsp. Chili Paste
3 Tbsp. Soy Sauce
3 Tbsp. Coconut Oil
Place all the ingredients above in a bowl, mix and let it marinade for 20-30 minutes while you prepare the rest of the ingredients and cook some rice and veggies. Once you start stirfrying everything cooks pretty fast.
While the meat is marinating, slice up 1 large Onion.
In a separate bowl or measuring cup, like I did, mix the following for the sauce:
1/3 cup Water
2 Tbsp. Oyster Sauce
1 Tbsp. Cornstarch
Now for the cooking:
Heat another 4 tablespoons of coconut oil in a wok and add the meat, marinade and all.
Stir fry until the pork turns opaque and looks to be done. Like this:
Add the onions and stir fry for another couple of minutes.
Now add the sauce and stir through for another couple of minutes until you can see the sauce start to thicken and smelling delicious. At this point, you can turn off the heat and serve.
By the way, besides lots of rice, we served this with the sweet potato leaves (kangkong) which were also cooked in garlic and coconut oil. It was a very coconutty dinner and very delicious! It was probably healthy too 
Don’t forget to enter the Virgin Coconut Oil giveaway!
Popularity: 14% [?]
Related posts:
- Sweet Potato Leaves with Garlic and Coconut Oil
- Chicken and Mushrooms in Spicy Oyster Sauce
- Pork & Vegetables Curry
- Lemon Garlic Roasted Pork Loin
- Beef with Broccoli Stirfry
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Your recipes always make my tummy growl. I have NEARLY all the ingredients to make this, just need coconut oil and need to buy more oyster sauce. Yummy
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:44 pm
[...] is the original post: Coconut Flavored Pork Stirfry Share and [...]
October 4th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Wow. I made this and holy moley was this so yummy! I think though, the next time I will cut down on the amount of coconut oil because it was really oily but so freakin tasty! Going in my book as a favorite! I made stir fried pak choi (just garlic and peanut oil) and rice. Delicious!
October 5th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Hi Jaime! I’m glad you liked the recipe. I agree with your assessment on the amount of coconut oil. I plan on cutting it down too, next time I make this.
We had baby pak choi last night too, we had it with some yummy noodles
October 5th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Hello again! I seriously can not stop raving about this recipe! I wish I could have found sweet potato leaves at the store..
Hee hee, it was a pak choi night last night, huh? One of my classmates said she made a stir fry with pak choi, too! Mmmm, I love noodles. I am needing a good recipe, care to share???
October 13th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Love stir fry and this recipe really looks great! Sort of reminds me of Mu Shu Pork without the Chinese cabbage and pancakes.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:28 am
looks like yoshinoya! definitely looks yummy! got to try this.