Chinese Cucumbers Stuffed with Minced Pork

This is one of the dishes that I have learnt from my mum recently. The taste is really very yummy especially with the crispy garlic and sauce on top. I am not good at writing recipes as all the ingredients and seasoning used are by estimation.

Basically, you just need:

- 1 chinese cucumber (cantonese called it "Ji4 Gua1)

- some minced pork mixed with some chopped onions - marinated with light soya sauce, corn flour, pepper.

- chopped garlic

- Spring onion for garnish

Sauce to be poured on the dish:

- abt 2tbsp Abalone sauce or Oyster sauce (I prefer Abalone sauce because it has no msg)

-Pepper

- a dash of sugar

- dark soya sauce

- corn starch to thicken the sauce

Directions:

-Peel off the skin of the cucumber and cut into sections. Use knife to cut out a hole in the section to put your marinated minced pork

- Steam it for about 15 min

- While the steaming is in process, fry the garlic with oil till light brown in colour. Set aside.

- Next cook the sauce directly on the same pan after the garlic is done. Put in the abalone sauce, water (depending how much gravy you like at the end), dark soya sauce and sugar and let it boil.

- Add in sugar next. Then pour in the cornstarch to thicken the gravy.

-When the steamed cucumber is done, pour the gravy over each piece. Followed by using a spoon to scoop the garlic and put on top of every piece.

-Prinkle some spring onion on top and voila. The dish is done! :)