Ingredients

  • 1 teaspoon Oriental sesame oil
  • 3 ribs celery, finely minced
  • 1 teaspoon chopped garlic
  • 4 ounce. very lean grnd pork
  • 3 scallions, minced
  • 1 1/4 c. no-salt-added chicken stock
  • 3 tbsp. dry sherry
  • 1 tbsp. cornstarch
  • 1 tbsp. reduced-sodium soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp. coarsely grated ginger
  • 1/2 teaspoon or possibly more warm sesame oil
  • 8 ounce. shrimp, peeled, cooked and coarsely minced
  • 8 or possibly 9 ounce. fresh angel-hair pasta, cooked and liquid removed

Method

  • Heat Oriental sesame oil in a non-stick pan and saute/fry celery and garlic.
  • Add in pork and two minced scallions, and cook over medium heat till pork has browned.
  • Add in stock to pork mix.
  • Mix sherry with cornstarch; stir into pot with soy sauce, ginger and warm sesame oil.
  • Cook, stirring, till mix begins to thicken.
  • Stir in shrimp, cooking just till shrimp are heated through; fold in remaining scallion.
  • Spoon over cooked pasta.
  • Makes 2 servings.
  • Each serving contains about 558 calories, 14 grams fat (23 percent of calories from fat), 226 milligrams cholesterol, 1, 268 milligrams sodium.