Pork and Okra Rolls with Potatoes - For Bentos
- 8 slice Thinly sliced pork (for shabu-shabu)
- 8 Okra (or green beans)
- 16 Frozen french fries
- 1/2 Carrot (cut into matchsticks)
- 50 ml Sake
- 25 ml Soy sauce
- 25 ml Mirin
- 1 1/2 tbsp Sugar
- 1/2 Grated garlic
- 1 dash Salt
- 1 dash Pepper
- 1 as many (to taste) + 1 bag Boiled eggs + plastic bag
- Combine the ingredients.
- Cut the carrot into 16 thin matchsticks.
- Salt the okura and roll it firmly on a cutting board.
- Cut off the hard parts of the okra.
- If you put the liquid ingredients in the measuring cup first, you can get by with just one container (I doubled the amounts since I made marinated boiled eggs.)
- If you place the okra alterately facing left and right as in the photo, salt and roll them in one go with both hands, they'll be done in no times.
- Rinse off the salt under running water.
- Cut off the stem ends as if you're removing a hat.
- Cut off any remaining hard bits, and the okra are prepped.
- Place the carrot, frozen potato and okra on the pork slices and roll them up.
- Season lightly with salt and pepper.
- It will look nice if you alternate the carrot and potato pieces.
- Heat a pan and add oil.
- Start pan frying the rolls with the seam side down.
- Roll them around with tongs.
- When the rolls are browned all over, add the ingredients.
- Simmer to reduce the sauce and coat the rolls, and it's done.
- Stop cooking just before the sauce gets burned.
- When it becomes foamy as shown here, give it a few more seconds.
- The sauce will coat the rolls nicely and they'll be delicious.
- The rolls fit better in a bento box if you cut them, and they're easier to eat too.
- If you cut them straight across they look like this.
- The star shape of the okra is so cute.
- Make marinated eggs with the leftover sauce.
- Put boiled eggs and the sauce in a plastic bag, eliminate as much air as you can and seal.
- Leave it to marinate in the refrigerator overnight.
- I could make 6 eggs.
- I made the rolls with asparagus since okra was sold out at the supermarket.
- I also packed onigiri rice balls, fruits, and frozen jelly cups in this bento.
pork, fries, carrot, sake, soy sauce, mirin, sugar, garlic, salt, pepper
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/157084-pork-and-okra-rolls-with-potatoes-for-bentos (may not work)