Pork celery and shiitake mushroom

I had left over celery from making an other dish so I decided to make a stir fry with it.

It's super easy. The most time consuming thing in a stir fry is to cut everything up to the right size. Other then that, heat up your wok and off you go.

Pork celery and shiitake mushroom

Ingredients

• 300g pork, sliced
• Half a stalk of celery
• 4 shiitake mushroom
• 2 cloves of garlic, minced
• 1/4 cup of cashew (optional)
• 1 tbsp splash of rice wine
• 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1/2 tbsp corn starch
• 1/4 cup water

Directions

1. Soak the shiitake mushrooms for at least an hour to re-hydrate. Squeeze the water out once it's re-hydrated. 
2. Slide the pork into thin slices.
3. Cut the celery into 1 inch pieces. 
4. Mince the garlic.
5. Heat up the wok to medium heat.
6. Add in a bit of oil and the garlic. Stir it around so it doesn't burn.
7. Add the pork and the shiitake mushrooms and stir it.
8. When the pork is about 80% cooked, added the celery and quickly stir..
9. In a bowl mix oyster sauce, sugar, corn starch and water. 
10. Deglaze the wok with the rice wine.
11. Make a whole in the middle of the wok and add the sauce mixture.
12. Once it starts to thicken up and bubble mix turn off the heat and mix everything together. 
13. Plate and top with cashews.

Tip: during cooking, if more liquid appears in the pan, you might need a little more corn starch. If you do, just add a bit more corn starch to more water and mix it in to thicken the sauce some more.

Categories: Celery, Pork, shiitake mushrooms