Recipe - Home Style Pork And Cucumber Soup

One fourth pound Lean pork
One half teaspoon Sugar
One half tablespoon Light soy sauce
One half tablespoon Rice wine or dry sherry
1 teaspoon Cornstarch
1 teaspoon Vegetable oil or Asian;
sesame oil
1 small Cucumber
4 cup Chicken stock or water
1 1 quart Slic fresh ginger;
lightly crushed
1 tablespoon Minced Smithfield ham or;
prosciutto (optional
Coriander sprigs for garnish

Nothing fancy about this soup++it's just simple, delicious and refreshing.
Cut the pork into thin slices and combine with the sugar, soy sauce, wine,
cornstarch and oil. Set aside.

Peel, halve and seed the cucumber. Cut crosswise into 1/4inch thin slices.

Bring stock and ginger to a boil.

Add the pork and reduce to a lively simmer; simmer for 10 minutes. Add
cucumber and simmer until translucent, about 3 minutes.

Garnish with the optional ham and coriander.

Serves 6 as part of a multipledish Chinese meal.

PER SERVING: 65 calories, 6 g protein, 4 g carbohydrate, 2 g fat (1 g (1 g
saturated), 13 mg cholesterol, 101 mg sodium, 0 g fiber.

Joyce Jue, San Francisco Chronicle, 11/23/92.

Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; December 2 1992.

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