Sun-dried Tomato Pesto, Chicken Flavour Stock Powder, Vegetable Spice
You will need
440 g tin pineapple pieces in syrup
2 T (30 ml) cornflour
2 T (30 ml) soy sauce
1 T (15 ml) Ina Paarman’s Sun-dried Tomato Pesto or paste
3 cm fresh ginger, grated
1 T (15 ml) rice wine or cider vinegar
½ cup (125 ml) water
1 T (15 ml) Ina Paarman’s Chicken Flavour Stock Powder
2 T (30 ml) brown sugar
3 T (45 ml) canola oil
1 medium onion, cut into wedges
2 carrots, cut into rings
1 celery stalk, sliced diagonally
2 leeks, cut into rings
3 cloves garlic, sliced
1 red bell pepper, sliced into strips
1 green bell pepper, sliced into strips
½ English cucumber, unpeeled and sliced into half rounds
Ina Paarman’s Vegetable Spice to taste.
Method
Drain pineapple and reserve ½ cup (125 ml) of the syrup. Mix syrup, cornflour, soy sauce, Tomato Pesto, grated ginger, vinegar, water, Stock Powder and sugar.
Heat oil in wok and add vegetables in order given, except cucumber and pineapple. Stir-fry until beginning to soften. Add cucumber and pineapple and stir-fry for 1 minute more. Stir pineapple juice mixture and add to vegetables. Bring to the boil.
Season with Vegetable Spice and serve with Crispy Chicken, and Chilli Rice.
