Pork Shabu Salad with Ponzu Dressing & Egg Drop Soup
Pork shabu salad recipe and egg drop soup. Make the pork salad and use the remaining liquid from cooking pork slices as the soup stock.
Ingredients
For the Salad
- red leaf lettuce (or any leafy salad)
- tomato optional
- English cucumber (optional)
- 5 shiso leaves chiffonaded; optional, aka perilla, ooba
For Ponzu Dressing
- 3 Tbsp ponzu
- 1 Tbsp sesame oil toasted
- 1 Tbsp white sesame seeds toasted
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp ginger grated
- 1 green onion chopped, or scallion
For Shabu Shabu
- 3 cups water
- 1 Tbsp sake
- 6 oz pork loin I use a "shabu shabu pork" from a Japanese grocery store; you can slice your own following my tutorial, thinly sliced
For Egg Drop Soup
- 2 cups chicken stock or the leftover soup from cooking sliced pork above, or broth
- ½ silken tofu cut into ½ inch cubes, kinugoshi dofu, soft/silken
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- ½ tsp kosher salt Diamond Crystal brand
- ¼ tsp white pepper powder
- 2 egg beaten in a small bowl, large, 50 g each, without shell
- 1 green onion chopped, or scallion
Instructions
To Make Pork Shabu Shabu Salad
- Arrange the salad. In a small bowl, whisk together the ingredients for ponzu dressing.
- Bring 3 cups of water to a boil in a medium saucepan. When boiling, add 1 Tbsp sake.
- Hold a slice of meat with chopsticks and place it into the boiling water.
- You can cook 2-3 slices of meat at a time.
- When the meat changes color, transfer it to a paper towel to drain water. When you finish cooking all the meat, don’t discard this stock yet. We'll use it to make Egg Drop Soup.
- Place the cooked meat on top of the lettuce and put Shiso leaves on top. Pour Ponzu Dressing when you are ready to eat.
To Make Egg Drop Soup
- Gather all the ingredients for Egg Drop Soup.
- Keep the soup simmering over medium heat and use a sieve to skim off the scum and fat from the soup. To clean the sieve, you can prepare a bowl of water and clean the sieve in the bowl every time you pick up scum.
- When the soup is clean, add tofu, soy sauce, salt, and white pepper and wait to boil again.
- SLOWLY stir in beaten egg, moving the bowl around over the saucepan. If you pour the egg too quickly it’ll become chunky instead of flowery. You will see the fluffy egg start to flow.
- Serve in the soup bowl and garnish with green onions. Serve immediately.
To Store
- You can keep the leftovers separately in airtight containers and store in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 2 Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 318
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 318kcal | 16% |
| Carbohydrates | 9g | 3% |
| Protein | 34g | 68% |
| Fat | 16g | 25% |
| Saturated Fat | 5g | 25% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 5g | 29% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 6g | 30% |
| Trans Fat | 1g | 50% |
| Cholesterol | 242mg | 81% |
| Sodium | 921mg | 38% |
| Potassium | 779mg | 17% |
| Fiber | 2g | 8% |
| Sugar | 3g | 6% |
| Vitamin A | 6098IU | 122% |
| Vitamin C | 4mg | 4% |
| Calcium | 216mg | 22% |
| Iron | 5mg | 28% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.