Baked Pork Chop with Fried Rice

Baked Pork Chop with Fried Rice (HK style tomato sauce) 港式茄汁焗豬扒飯 is a favourite Hong Kong fusion dish. This recipe is hubbys... I just documented from front row seat...♥️

INGREDIENTS

1 onion (sliced)

2 medium tomatoes (wedges)

6 cherry tomatoes

1C cooked rice (pre dried in fridge overnight)

1 egg (1/2t salt and 1/2t sugar)

2 pork scotch steaks (300gms)

1C mixed veg (peas, corn, carrot, shelled soy beans)

Potato starch for dusting pork chop (we had about 4T)

1/3t white pepper

1/2t salt

1 egg beaten

4T ketchup (Or tomato sauce)

Water (for later use with leftover potato starch)

2T light soy sauce

3 cloves garlic chopped

Shredded cheese (melting)

1t maggi sauce

1cube pork stock in 400ml of water

Oil for frying

METHOD

For fried rice - at least a day before, cook your 1C rice and spread it out on a plate to dry in fridge

(Fried rice should not clump together, so you need to dry it out fully)

On the day:

Beat pepper, salt and egg

Marinate pork chops (30 mins)

Prep all your ingredients (cut onion etc)

Preheat fan forced oven to 200C (grill function)

Heat up saucepan with oil (for frying pork)

Dredge the pork in potato starch

Cook pork in saucepan (deep fry until golden brown using medium heat - 6. Do not deep fry on high heat as it will blacken on outside before being cooked)

Crack egg into leftover pork marinade

Beat (This will be for fried rice)

Scrape any bits of pork out from potato starch

Put potato starch into water

Wash up what you've used so far...

Have some beer

Cook the pork steaks (5 mins)

Flip the pork steaks (5 mins)

Flip the pork steaks (1 min)

Let drain on a drying rack

Heat up some oil in a large saucepan

Cook the egg

Add rice

Cook until slightly yellow

Add 1/2t salt 

Add 1/2t sugar

Fry

Keep moving else it will burn

When yellow Add veg

Fry, stirring through veg (and distributing veg evenly - feel free to "toss")

Put fried rice into corningware (we are using 1.4L oval so if you dont have this, find an oven proof container of similar capacity)

Wash up what you've used so far

Return large saucepan to stove to dry (as we will use for making sauce)

Cut the pork chops into strips

Place on top of fried rice

Heat some oil in large saucepan

Add in garlic

Add onion (fry and ensure all onion pieces are separated)

Add ketchup

Add soy sauce

Add maggi sauce (at this point it should smell like sizzling fillet steak sauce)

Add pork stock, simmer (2 mins)

Add tomato, simmer (2 mins)

Stir then add potato starch water (in small amounts) stirring until the sauce is thickened (see pic) you may not need to use all the potato starch

Pour sauce over pork chop

Garnish with shredded cheese

Bake in oven for 5 mins

Serve (and dig in!)