Peanut Pork Stir Fry

Ever start out making one recipe then figure out you don't have an ingredient (or in my case just can't find it) and it is the essential spice?  Sometimes it is a blessing in disguise.

I started out making what I thought was going to be a Koren based stir fry.  I got the rice going in the broth.  Put in the sesame seed oil and the coconut oil and fried up the garlic put in the carrots, and the pork (sliced pork chops).  Then I went to make the sauce---and where did I put that ginger--not the spice cabinet.  Maybe it is on the kitchen counter--nope.  Hmmmm--do I have any fresh ginger--not this time.  Time to rethink this!   What do we have here, soy sauce, honey, and ---crunchy peanut butter!  So what came out was a very nice Thai-ish peanut sauce.  It is really good!

Both the husband and all the kids ate it so fast that next time I am going to make double.

So here is how to do it!

4.5 cups chicken broth
2 cups basmati rice 


1. Cook rice in chicken broth.  You could use water--but chicken broth tastes better especially if it is homemade.

2 pork chops cut into strips and then cut in half
1 clove of garlic
2 carrots
1 TBL coconut oil (if you think you need more--put more in)
1 TBL sesame seed oil (this is strong stuff I would not use alot more than that!)
Broccoli  (I used a quart sized freezer bag that I had filled with costco frozen broccoli) Prob a head would do

In a different pot
2. Saute the garlic for a min or two with the oil, then put in the carrots and the pork.
3. Stir the pot every once in a while to ensure that nothing sticks or burns

Peanut Sauce

1/3 cup of soy sauce
2 TBL honey
2TBL crunchy peanut butter
Dash of ground cayenne pepper

4. Mix sauce together in a small bowl--you don't have to whip it--just mix up
5. When pork is done pour sauce over pork, add the broccoli.  Let it simmer for a few minutes (I think it was about 10 minutes on med/low).  You could probably simmer it for less--just make sure your broccli is done.

5.1 Call the kids in, and make them wash their sandy hands
5.2 Set the table
5.3 Settle the fight about who gets to put the forks on the table tonight
5.4 Get yet another fork to replace the one that the two year old threw on the floor
5.5 Call husband downstairs to wrangle the youngest while you and the oldest get the cups on the table.

6. Serve the pork peanut sauce over the rice!

Amount this serves....well it served my family of 5 with about 1.5 cups of rice left over, but no peanut sauce left over so adjust the recipe accordingly.

Hope you like it as much as we did.  Let me know if it turns out for you!