Gingered Pork Skewers

This was truly an all around wonderful meal.

Here we go!

Source: Weight Watchers

Ingredients: serves 4, 5 pts each
2 T low-sodium soy sauce
1 t ginger root, freshly grated *see note below
1/2 t mined garlic
1 1/2 cups canned unsweetened pineapple chunks or 16 fresh chunks
8 oz lean pork tenderloin, cut into 16 chunks
1 med sweet red pepper, cut into 16 chunks
3 cups cooked while wheat couscous
1/4 cup scallions, sliced

-In a Ziploc, combine soy sauce, ginger and garlic. Finely chop 2 pineapple chunks and add to bag. Add pork, seal bag and turn to coat. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes or up to 4 hours.
-Preheat outdoor grill or broiler. If using broiler, line broiler pan rack with foil for easy clean up.
-Alternately thread 2 pieces of pork, 2 pieces of pepper and 2 pieces of pineapple onto each skewer. If you are using wood skewers, make sure you have soaked them in water for a min. of 20 minutes.
-Grill or broil skewers, turning once, until pork is just barely pink in center and pepper and pineapple are lightly charred and tender, about 6-8 minutes (depending on how thick your pork chunks are). Remove from heat. Combine couscous with scallions.

We absolutely loved this dish. We don't care for couscous so we had wild rice instead (points value will change). Also served with grilled okra. Grilling okra was a first (thanks Zane) and we will never fry again. So yummy, easy and healthy!

*Ginger root. A wonderful ingredient to so many things Asian. Found on the produce aisle normally on the top shelf. It normally has all these weird nobs on the sides. It's perfectly acceptable to break off a piece of the entire root they are trying to sell you. To prepare....peel the skin and grate the root. If you have a micro plane, use that. If not, use the smallest cheese grater you have.