Asadong Pork Giniling with Quail Eggs & Mushrooms
This is a Filipino dish and struck my interest as a main dish with the use of ground pork. This is delicious, I made this on 17 July 2018 exactly as written, very well liked by the family. Link to the Shortcut is listed in the Notes section.
Ingredients
- 500 grams ground pork, (1 lb)
- 15-20 hard boiled quail eggs, peeled, or canned, Shortcut
- 8 fresh Shiitake mushrooms, stems removed and sliced
- ¼ cup oyster sauce
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- 2 pieces whole star anise
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch, mix with ¼ cup water to make a slurry
- 3 spring onions, chopped, 1 inch pieces, white and green parts
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 small onion, minced
- salt and pepper, to taste
- cooking oil, as needed
Instructions
- If using fresh quail eggs, hard boil, peel, and place in a dish and set aside. If using canned eggs, just drain and rinse then place in a bowl and set aside.
- In a wok or large non stick pan, heat a splash of oil, when hot, add the garlic and onion. Saute until the onion is soft.
- Add the pork, chopping up and turn with your spatula and cook until no longer pink and browned a bit, it gets cooked more later.
- Add the mushrooms, sauces, star anise, stock, and sugar, mix and bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. Add cover and simmer for 15 minutes.
- Stir in the cornstarch slurry and the eggs, simmer until the sauce thickens as you desire. Season with salt and pepper as desired.
- When the sauce has thickened, taste and season as desired with salt and pepper as you desire, stir in the spring onion.
- Serve with a side of fresh cooked rice.
Notes
Ground pork at Tesco will cost about 50 Baht/500 grams, if you want to control the fat, grind your own but that will affect the price. For 3 servings (not including the eggs as there is a large shift from the price from local vendor to Tesco, for 3 servings, this is about 52 cents per serving, slightly more with the eggs, but well under $1, always go with a local vendor.
Shortcut: Perfect Hard Boiled Quail Eggs.