Description:  The fresh lemon flavour with a little ginger punch matches with the fatty pork and courgette.
Serves: 2
Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

• Sliced pork belly- chopped, 80g
• Courgette – chopped, 1 piece or 200g
• Ginger – chopped into small pieces, 5g
• Lemon juice – 1 teaspoon or squeeze from 1 wedge of lemon
• Olive oil – 1 tablespoon
• Salt – 1 dash
• Ground black pepper – 1 dash

Method

1. In a non-stick frying pan, add the oil and ginger over medium heat for 30 seconds, stirring regularly. 
2. Add the courgette, pork, salt and pepper to the pan. Cook thoroughly. 
3. Stop the heat and splash the lemon juice.

Nutritional Values Per Sercing

Kcal	Protein	Fat	Carbs	Fibre	Sugars	Salt	Saturated Fat
287.2	5.0g	28.6g	3.9g	1.1g	2.6g	0.2g	8.0g
14.4%	10.1%	40.8%	1.5%	3.8%	2.9%	4.1%	39.9%

Nutritional Tips

Courgette is commonly dark or light green, but you may see a yellow one as well. It is versatile: it can be added to pasta, risotto and burgers, it can be stuffed, rolled or used in ajillo, kushikatsu (Japanese deep fry skewer) and tempura. I will introduce more recipes another time.

Some people do not use ginger for cooking and enjoy it with tea, or some even like ginger juice but I personally think it has a strong flavour. However, ginger works really well as spice in cooking. It is very commonly used in Japanese cuisine. Just a drop of grated ginger or fine pieces of ginger give some taste to the dish. Ginger can be grated, chopped in fine pieces, crushed, juiced or pickled. Therefore, it also helps to reduce your salt intake. Ginger may help with morning sickness for pregnant women, motion sickness or when you are unwell.