Roast Pork Fried Rice

I had a half of a pork tenderloin that I had cut off when I made another dish a few weeks ago.  I put it in the fridge to defrost on Thursday knowing I wanted to do something with it this weekend.  I started thinking about how delicious pork fried rice is and did a search for that online.  I had never roasted pork before, so this was new for me. I came across this post and decided to try it.  I liked the recipe for the roast pork, but I didn't have any packets of fried rice seasoning, so I made my own.  I tweaked the roast pork recipe a bit to work with just the items I had in the house.

Note, most of my recipes consist of ingredients I have in house.  I don't like to go out and buy something special just for one recipe.  So, I will tweak my recipes as needed just to keep me from having to drive to the grocery store one more time.  For example, I use regular onion instead of green onion in my fried rice.  Doesn't hurt it, in my opinion.  Also, you will never, ever, ever, ever find peas in any of my recipes.  :)

Here is what I came up with:

Roast Pork Recipe

2T Soy Sauce

2T Hoisin Sauce

1T Brown Sugar

1.5T Vegetable Oil

1/2 Heaping teaspoon Garlic Powder

1/2 Heaping teaspoon Cinnamon.  I used Vietnamese Cinnamon.

Pour all ingredients into a sturdy zip-lock bag with the pork and refrigerate for 8+ hours.  Mine went in around 7pm Friday night and I cooked it at Noon on Saturday.  Heat oven to 500 degrees.  Line an 8x8 glass pan with tin foil and place pork into pan.  (Do this step.  I didn't and I'm still trying to scrape out all of the charred black stuff from the bottom of my pan...)  Bake at 500 for 30 minutes. Cut into bite-sized pieces.

*Note: This was so, so very good, I couldn't stop tasting it as I was cutting it up in to bits.  Like I said above I had never roasted pork before and I was just taken by this simple yet super delicious meat!

Fried Rice Recipe

3 Eggs, scrambled

4 Cups of cooked rice

1/4 Onion, chopped

1 Carrot, chopped

4T Soy Sauce

1T Oil

1/4t Salt

1/4t Pepper

3/4t Garlic Powder

1t Sesame Seeds

Heat a wok to 350 degrees.  Toss in scrambled eggs and cook until firm, remove to plate.  Add oil to wok and then add onion and carrot.  Saute for a minute or two and then add the rice.  At this point, turn the heat down to 200.  Add the eggs to the mixture and blend rice and eggs with carrots and onions.  Add the soy sauce.  Add salt, pepper, garlic powder and sesame seeds.  Now, toss in the pork.  Mix all of the ingredients together well and serve warm.