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Easy pork satay stir-fry

To finish off the pork shoulder roast that I used for ginger pork I made this stir-fry that was easy and turned out better than any pork satay I’ve been served in Thai restaurants (at least here in Madison…Marnee Thai in San Francisco is still the bomb). The greens on the side are collard greens and they were good too…but I made the mistake of oversalting them so I didn’t like them as much as GH did. I used the blender to create the stir-fry marinade and that made the prep work fast and easy to clean-up. If you like pork satay I recommend you give this a try. It’s quick, easy, and has great flavor.

Easy Pork Satay Stir-fry

1/4 cup chunky, natural peanut butter
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon Maggi seasoning (if you don’t have this use soy sauce)
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 knob of ginger, chopped
3 cloves garlic
1 tsp Sriracha chile sauce (or more if you want to feel the heat)
1 pound pork shoulder or pork steak

Slice the meat into thin strips and pound it with the serrated side of a meat mallet. Put all of the other ingredients into the blender and mix it well. Put the marinade and pork into a ziploc and squish it around. Let it sit for 15-30 minutes.

Heat a large flat skillet or wok on high. Add some canola oil and let it continue to heat until it starts smoking. Add the pork and the marinade to the skillet. Depending on the size of the skillet you may have to do this in two batches or use two skillets since you don’t want to overwhelm the heating surface. I have a 15″ skillet that worked just right.

Keeping the heat on high you want to let the pork sit and cook. Don’t stir it until your reasonably certain that you’ve got a nice brown, carmely crust. Keep doing this and eventually the marinade will be clinging to the pork strips and everything will be a brown, carmely mess.

I think it may be hell to clean-up the pan (although GH didn’t complain) and I should have used my spatter screen to protect the stove and area from the mess…but I forgot.

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I had a great birthday and the movie 300 was epic and awesome…I loved it. It was the first time I’ve ever been to a movie where 90% of the audience was male, the ladies room was vacant and the men were standing in line for once. We tried to have dinner at Jada’s Soul Food but it was closed…we’ll try again sometime. It’s warm and melty here and I can finally believe that Spring might be around the corner.

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