braised spinach & ground meat with sticky sauce

ingredients:

• 7 ounces fresh spinach
• 7 ounces ground pork
• or chicken　
• 3 teaspoons grated ginger
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 4 teaspoons sugar
• a little salt
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 tablespoon potato starch (katakuriko)
• 1/2 tablespoon water (for dissolving potato starch)
• 1 tablespoon olive oil

step 1:

Cut off the stems of the spinach and wash. Cut the spinach into 2 in. long pieces.

step 2:

Heat the olive oil in a frying pan or wok over a medium flame and add the ground meat. Sear until it changes color.

step 3:

Pour the 1/2 cup of water into the pan (or wok) and bring to a boil. Add the soy sauce, sugar, salt and grated gimger and stir. Add the spinach and boil for 5 minutes.

step 4:

Dissolve the potato starch in the 1/2 tablespoon of water. Add the dissolved potato starch to the pan (or wok). Stir a few times until it becomes creamy.