Good Eatin’: Ants Climbing Trees

List Item: Try half of the combined 1001 food books

So today at a work meeting in a local hotel I actually managed to eat another food item for the list, but since I had left my mobile phone in the locked room I was unable to take the picture to prove it. D’oh. Means I’ll just have to find a recipe for risotto primavera or luck out in the future.

In any case, when I got home from work I was due to cook something from the new book with a recipe from the same book: ants climbing trees.

Food items: Ants Climbing Trees and Rice Noodles

Ingredients (makes 4 servings):

2 tbsp light soy sauce
2 tbsp sugar
2 tsp sesame oil
500g minced pork
200g rice noodles
2 tbsp oil (I used hazelnut oil this time)
3 shakes Tabasco sauce
½ tbsp minced ginger
3 spring onions, finely chopped
1 ½ tbsp sweet chilli sauce
250 ml water

Mix the soy sauce, sugar and sesame oil together in a mixing bowl. Add the pork mince and combine in the marinade, leaving for 10 minutes. In the time you wait for the pork to marinate add the rice noodles to a bowl of hot water so they are able to soak.

Heat the oil in a wok and fry the Tabasco, ginger and spring onions for a minute. Add the pork and cook until browned, then add the noodles, water and chilli sauce. Stick a lid on the wok and cook until most of the water has been absorbed into the noodles.