Description: Asparagus wrapped in thinly sliced pork belly. Can be served as canape, finger food for parties or side dishes. Japanese people like to roll vegetables with thinly sliced meat so that kids would eat them 🙂
Serves: 3
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Ingredients
- Thinly sliced pork belly – cut in half, 200g
- Asparagus – cut in 4 pieces, 240g
- Ground Black pepper – 1 teaspoon
- Salt – 3 dash
Method
1. Wash the asparagus and pat them dry. Trim off the woody stems. Steam the asparagus for 3 minutes and then cut them into 4 pieces.
2. Wrap the pork belly around 3 pieces of asparagus.
3. Grind black pepper on each side and grill in a non-stick frying pan on both sides for about 3 – 4 minutes in total until the pork belly slice is cooked. You may close the lid to cook quickly.
To serve: Squeeze lemon
Nutritional Values Per Serving
| Kcal | Protein | Fat | Carbs | Fibre | Sugars | Salt | Saturated Fat | Vitamin B2 | Folate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 363.7 | 8.1g | 35.5g | 3.7g | 1.9g | 1.6g | 0.4g | 12.9g | 3.9mg | 42.8μg |
| 18.2% | 16.1% | 50.7% | 1.4% | 6.3% | 1.7% | 7.4% | 64.7% | 29.9% | 21.4% |
Nutritional Tips
I would recommend steaming asparagus instead of boiling so that you can minimise the vitamin C loss. But if you choose to boil, try to minimise the cooking time and use the cooked water for soup so that you can save a bit of vitamin from that.
Folate-rich foods are liver, yeast extract (Marmite), edamame beans and green leafy vegetables. A diet rich in other vitamin Bs and C is usually folate rich.
When deficiency occurs, it will cause an elevation of homocysteine in the body. High homocysteine levels may be associated with an increased risk of heart disease.
Folate is beneficial to women during the preconception period to decrease the possibility of neural tube defects in the newborn. Therefore, requirements are significantly increased in pregnancy.
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