Paprika Pork With Noodles

With the recent release of the Fakeaways recipe book, what great timing for our recent ideas, turning simple recipes into your favourite style, such as Thai or Chinese. Paprika adds a nice smokey flavour to pork, and you can use sweet or spicy style, it really is up to you! Read on for our Paprika Pork with Noodles, a sort of 'cheats chow mein'.

Ingredients:

400 grams Diced Pork

1 Onion Diced

1/2 Red Pepper Diced

1 Can Chopped Tomatoes

3 Garlic Cloves finely sliced

200 grams Rice style, or Soup noodles*

Salt and pepper

Fry light

Chicken stock cube

Water as required
Paprika (sweet or spicy, as you prefer)

Method

1. Marinade the pork.  2. Brown in Pan. 3. Add onions & red pepper.

1. Marinade Pork in 2 to 3 teaspoons of paprika and use a little fry light to help mix it. Leave to one side for at least 2 hours, cover.
2. Heat a suitable frying pan, add plenty of fry light and a good pinch of salt and a little pepper and when nice and hot, tip in the pork, including any marinade juices and stir fry until a nice golden colour, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
3. In the same pan, add the onions and red pepper and cook in the pork juices, if any. Add more fry light if required. Stir fry until softening and slightly charred colour starts to appear...don't burn!
4. Add sliced garlic and quickly stir round for about 30 seconds then add the whole tin of chopped tomatoes. Don't over do the garlic otherwise it will burn and go bitter.
5. Stir well to incorporate the mix and, when bubbling, tip the pork back in to rewarm through, then add the chicken stock cube and the rice noodles, mix well! Add a little water at a time to ensure the noodles cook and absorb the liquid, but don't add too much, you want it relatively 'stodgy' not runny!
6. Taste and season with salt and pepper, serve with rice or in a bowl on its own when done.

1. Add tomatoes & garlic 2. Add noodles & water 3. Serve!

Tip: If one of you prefers spicy food, just sprinkle some chilli from a chilli mill, and you have an instant heat to your Paprika Pork, while others can enjoy a less spicy version!

*If you can find them, try to use soup noodles, which are very thin strands of spaghetti style pasta about 1 to 2 inches long. They cook quickly and are ideal for stews as well. If you cannot get them, use rice noodles, either as the come, or chop them small before adding to the mix.