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Pork in a frying pan with minimum ingredients

Skillet Pork with Just a Few Ingredients

A tasty, fragrant, hearty dinner! Meat cooked with onions in a skillet is one of those delicious meat dishes that takes almost no time to make. It's totally foolproof, so a lot of people will love it.

Julia M.

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Pork in a frying pan with minimum ingredients

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Pork

500

Onion

Water

Salt

Dried spices

Vegetable oil (for frying)

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 35 % 9 g

Fats 54 % 14 g

Carbohydrates 12 % 3 g

171 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Step 1:

Cut the pork into small, roughly even pieces. It's good if the meat has a little fat on it — that keeps it juicy once cooked.
Step 2:

Pour a little vegetable oil into a hot skillet. Add the cut meat and fry it for 5-7 minutes, until golden brown. The skillet should be hot enough that a crust forms on the meat right away, sealing all the juices inside.
Step 3:

Peel the large onions and rinse them in cold water so slicing doesn't make your eyes water. Cut the peeled onion into half-rings.
Step 4:

Add the sliced onion to the meat in the skillet and fry everything together, without lowering the heat, for another 3-4 minutes. By then the onion will be translucent. Season with a little salt and spices to taste.
Step 5:

Then add hot water to the skillet. Reduce the heat and cover with a lid. Simmer over low heat for 20-30 minutes. By then the meat fibers will be softer and more tender. Serve the finished dish with any side you like: potatoes, spaghetti, or rice. Sprinkle with fresh herbs when serving, if you like. Serve hot. Enjoy!

Instead of vegetable oil, you can fry the meat in pork lard. You can use any cut of pork, but shoulder or neck is best — those cuts have enough marbling to benefit the finished dish. Use large onions here, and plenty of them. You can serve the dish as a hot main on its own, ideally with a plate of sliced fresh vegetables on the side. Adjika or any hot sauce also pairs beautifully with the meat. For an extra layer of flavor, add a splash of soy sauce while frying — just use less salt in that case, since soy sauce is already quite salty.