Shanghai Sesame Pork & Noodles

This is good and so simple it's amazing.  It is one of the easiest dinners I know how to make.  Make sure you have the sauce ready and the water close to a boil before you start cooking the pork, as this dish comes together very quickly.

Pork & Noodles
1 lb	ground pork
½ lb	dried Chinese style egg noodles
½ tsp	salt
½ tsp	black pepper

Sauce
2 oz	water
4 tbl	soy sauce
3 tbl	sesame oil
3 tbl	oyster sauce
3 tbl	sherry
1½ tsp	sugar
2 tbl	corn starch
9 cloves	garlic squeezed through a garlic press

Condiments

4 to 6 green onions, green parts only, sliced on the bias

sesame seeds

Mix all of the sauce ingredients together in a small bowl and set aside.  Put a large pot of water on the stove over high heat so it will come up to a boil.

As the water heats, sprinkle the salt and pepper over the pork and brown it over medium heat it in a large nonstick pan, breaking it up as it cooks.  Drain the pork to get rid of most of the grease then return it to the frying pan and pour the sauce over it.  Cook over medium heat for 3 minutes stirring well.  The sauce will thicken.

When the pork is almost done cooking, drop the egg noodles into the boiling water and cook them for 2 minutes.  (This dish looks prettier if you just drop the noodles in whole, but it is VERY hard to mix the pork in later.  If you break the noodles into 1" to 1½" pieces before you cook them the dish isn't as pretty but it is so much easier to make.)  Drain the noodles, put them in a serving bowl, pour the pork and sauce over everything, and mix well.

Serve garnished with the green onions and sesame seeds

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