Mexican Pulled Pork Fried Rice
In our quest to bring you the best ways to use left-over pulled pork, we threw together this very special pork fried rice dish. Big juicy prawns work amazingly well with the shredded and smoked slow cooker pulled pork, and a sprinkle of crunchy crushed peanuts and fresh basil make this a must-try.
This dish would work equally well with other meats.
If seafood is your thing we highly recommend this Chipotle King Prawn recipe!
Serves 4
Prep 20m
Cook 15m
Ingredients
- 400g / 14 oz Jasmine rice
- 200g / 7 oz Slow Cooked Pulled Pork
- 2cm / 0.8 inch Piece of ginger
- ½ Onion
- Handful fresh basil
- 1 teaspoon Gran Luchito Chipotle Paste
- 1 Clove garlic
- 1 tablespoon Soy sauce (plus a small splash for prawns)
- 2 Spring onions
- 2 Large eggs
- 1 teaspoon Shrimp paste (most supermarkets sell this nowadays)
- Water
- 350g / 12 oz Fresh king prawns
- 150g / 5 oz Salted peanuts
- Groundnut oil
- 1 teaspoon Sesame oil
- 1 stalk lemongrass, white part only; roughly chopped
KCAL:
151
FAT:
7.8g
Saturates:
1.4g
Carbs:
10.8g
Sugars:
1g
Fibre:
1.2g
Protein:
10g
Salt:
0.49g
Nutrition: PER SERVING
Method
- Begin by cooking the rice (this will need to be relatively cool, so make it in advance). Follow the instructions on the pack and leave to one side while you prepare the rest.
- Now you can make the paste. Combine the ginger, lemongrass, onions, garlic, soy sauce (1 tablespoon), sesame oil, shrimp paste, black pepper, fresh basil (including stalks), Gran Luchito Chipotle Paste and a splash of water (you’ll be cooking this off next so don’t worry about diluting the flavours) in a food processor and blitz to a smooth paste.
- Heat a wok until very hot and add a little oil. Add the paste and fry for about 3mins. Most of the water should disappear and you’ll be left with a lovely rich paste which will be the base of the dish. Leave cooked paste aside.
- Next, pour a splash of soy sauce over the prawns. Heat the wok again and add a little oil. Flash fry the prawns for a few minutes until they turn pink.
- Do exactly the same thing with the left-over pulled pork and then combine with the prawns.
- Finely slice the spring onion and blitz the peanuts.
- Beat the eggs in a bowl.
- Heat the wok until very hot, add a little oil. Add the egg and before it cooks completely, add the rice and combine so that the rice gets coated. Next add the paste, pork, prawns, spring onion and half the peanuts and combine well.
- After a few minutes, serve straight into bowls and finish with a sprinkle of peanuts and some roughly chopped fresh basil.
