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Hoisin Pork Tacos
with Cucumber, Carrot & Mixed Leaves
The fastest recipe on this page — sticky hoisin pork mince, a cold crunchy slaw, warm tortillas. Good for a night when cooking needs to take under twenty minutes.
Ingredients (for 2)
Pantry basics not counted above: olive oil for cooking.
Method
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Start with the crunch
Grate the carrot, cut the cucumber into thin sticks, and roughly tear up the salad leaves. Toss it all together in a bowl — it doesn't need to be neat — with a pinch of salt and pepper, and leave it to one side while the pan heats up.
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Cook the pork
Get a large frying pan properly hot with a drizzle of oil, then add the mince. Break it apart as it browns, which takes 3–4 minutes, push it to one side of the pan and let the garlic sizzle there for a minute, then stir everything back together. Pour in the hoisin and soy, and keep it moving for a minute until every bit of pork is coated and glossy.
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Warm the tortillas
While the pork finishes, warm the tortillas — 10-second bursts in the microwave usually does the job, or 20 seconds a side in a dry pan if you'd rather skip the microwave.
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Build and serve
Smear a little mayo across each tortilla first — it helps everything else stay put — then pile on the crunch slaw and hoisin pork.