Barbecue Pork Medallion

This Barbecue Pork Medallion is Top Notch!

There’s a very good reason why Pork Medallions, or in this case, why my Barbecue Pork medallion is so tender. It’s a Pork Tenderloin. So unless you over cook or burn the meat, it’s virtually impossible to not have silver dollar sized slices that practically melt in your mouth. The secret to my recipe is just a 24 hour marinade. As far as the rest goes, there really isn’t much to it. In fact you don’t even have to use any special dressing or any cure for the meat. Just your favorite BBQ Sauce!

Now let’s talk about taking it to the oven. Again, there’s nothing to it, but the way I was first introduced to the Barbecue Pork Medallion, we were hanging 1 lbs portions with meat hooks that draped over skewers on the top rack shelf of a meat locker oven. A pan on the bottom caught all the drippings. It’s very common to cook ribs, thighs or poultry this way as well. However, given that most of us don’t have restaurant size ovens in our kitchens, any pan or oven safe dish will do just fine. After a 24 hour marinade in your favorite Barbecue sauce, 350 degrees in your oven, for an hour and a half, will get you right where you want to be when your slicing up your succulent Barbecue Pork Medallion. And coming from a 5 dollar Tenderloin and possibly a 98 cent bottle of Honey and Hickory Smoke BBQ Sauce, like I use from Kraft, how can you go wrong.

This is the way P.F. Chang’s makes their Pork Medallion, only they use their barbecue sauce, however. I have the recipe for that too.

CLICK HERE if you want P.F. Chang’s Barbecue Sauce Recipe

Barbecue Pork Medallion Ingredients:

1 Pork Tenderloin
1 cup Barbecue Sauce

Marinate Tenderloin in BBQ Sauce for 24 hours then bake at 350 degrees f for 1 1/2 hours.

Peaking Ravioli Pot Stickers

What are Pot Stickers?

If you don’t know by now, Americans love Chinese Pot Stickers. If you’ve been to any Chinese Buffet in the last 10 years, you’ve seen them. They’ve even become so popular, they sell them right next to the frozen burrito’s of just about every grocery store in America. I don’t know the history or the exact Origin of the Pot Sticker, I mean, that’s what Wikipedia is for, right, but I can tell you that these are usually prepared fresh everyday, and they’re made by hand, not stamped out of a cookie cutter.

What are Pot Stickers made of?

The breakdown is very simple; Ground Pork, Onion, Carrots and a few Asian Sauces, Hoisin and Oyster Sauce. Just a few secret folds that aren’t too complicated, and Voila, you’ve got Pot Stickers! Well, at least in theory, right. But now what? Do you throw them in boiling water? The answer is NO! Technically I guess you could, but these things are traditionally steamed. And if you don’t have a Steamer, no worries. This video tutorial will show you how to do it without one, So let’s dive right in and make some Pot Stickers.

Be sure to check out my Shrimp Dumplings recipe because I have the best sauce recipe in that post to dip these Pot Stickers in if Tempura dipping sauce isn’t available in your area.

Pot Stickers Ingredients:

1 pkg Pot Sticker Wrappers
8 oz Ground Pork Sausage or just Pork
1/4 cup Carrots
1/3 Cup Scallions
1 tsp Hoisin Sauce
1 tsp Oyster Sauce
1 tsp Black Ground Pepper
1/2 tsp Chopped Garlic
Water to glue the Wrappers together

Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix thoroughly. Wet the edges of each wrapper and place about 1 tbsp of Ground Pork mixture in the center, and then fold in half like a taco. Then proceed to one of the corners and pleat the edge of one side and apply pressure to make the wrapper stick, all the way around in a half moon shape. Then place Pot Stickers in a steamer lined with Bok Choy leaves or Cabbage and Steam for 7 minutes. Pan fry in a lightly oiled pan for a 1 minute, or until the bottoms turn a light golden brown, Drip dry onto some paper towels then serve your Pot Stickers with some Tempura Dipping Sauce.

Pork Wonton Soup with Shrimp and Vegetables

Chinese Wonton Soup

I can’t take full credit for this Wonton Soup Recipe. In all honesty, I shouldn’t take any. This was on the Menu at a certain Chinese Bistro I worked at years ago, but the recipe is so incredibly simple, I don’t feel like they should take credit for it either because there’s really nothing to it. It’s not exactly what they put inside the Wontons themselves so I don’t feel too bad about putting it up here and claiming it as my own. Besides, everyone has their own version of how they think a recipe should be, right? Of course right!

A Wonton Soup base can be any broth you personally prefer; beef, chicken, vegetable or seafood. It really doesn’t matter. I would argue to say that 9 out of 10 times, though, I’ve had Wonton Soup served with Chicken Stock. So you can use broth, stock or bouillon for all I care, and with any flavor you prefer. In this particular recipe, I use Chicken Bouillon, from Knorr. If you can manage, have two different pots of it. Once to cook in, and one to Ladel out Soup. I usually have less broth in the pot I cook the wontons and shrimp in, and atleast 3 times the amount in the other. It all depends on how many I’m serving. This Wonton Soup recipe will easily feed 4.

Wonton Soup Ingredients:

Wontons
1 pkg Wonton Wrappers
1/2 lbs Ground Pork
2 tbsp Oyster Sauce
1/4 cup chopped Carrot Shoe String Slices
1 chopped Green Onion
1 handfull of chopped Cilantro

Soup
Per Wonton Soup Bowl
5 Shrimp
5 Water Chestnuts
5 Mushroom Slices
5 Wontons
1 handful of fresh Spinach leaves
1 Cup Chicken Broth, stock or bouillon

Mix the Wonton Ingredient’s together and fold the Wontons into shape using the wrappers. Then place wantons and the other “Soup” ingredients in Chicken broth on the stove and cook for 6 to 7 minutes. Strain out the Soup ingredients into a bowl full of fresh leafy spinach. Ladle 1 cups worth of Chicken broth from a seperate pan, over the top of the ingredients and serve this fantastic Wonton Soup.