Showing posts with label pork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pork. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 August 2011

Stewed Pork, Veggie Salsa & Flatbread.

I don't know if stewed pork is the right word. Or vegetable salsa, for that matter. But that's what I'm calling it.



They made flatbreads on This Morning, errr, this morning, and I was all "OOOO. I shall make that."

Serves 2, but there was a lot, and some leftover salsa...

Need:
One pork chop, fat/bones removed
One red onion
One courgette
Two cloves garlic
One tomato
4 medium mushrooms
Half a tin chopped tomatoes

Plain flour
Water
Coriander
Tarragon
Cayenne Pepper
Chilli Powder
Salt
Pepper
One vegetable stock cube
Olive oil
Honey

Lettuce + 1/2 an avocado per person to serve.

That seems like a lot, but a lot was leftovers/things that needed to be eaten!


Do:
Remove the bones/fat from the pork. Flatten and tenderise (translation - hit it with a rolling pin for a bit), and chop into cubes. Place in an oven proof dish.

Take half of the onion and half of the courgette and chop finely, adding to the dish. Crush a garlic clove into the dish (I used a garlic crusher as opposed to the garlic card. You want minced garlic, rather than puree, if possible, but finely chopped will do). Add sprinkles of salt, pepper, coriander, tarragon and cayenne pepper, then a drizzle of olive oil. Cover and place in fridge for at least an hour (I made mine at about 3pm and we ate about half 6...)

For the flatbreads, mix plain flour, salt and water. Roll out to desired size an shape - seriously, they can be any size or shape. I went for a naan-y look, and probably made enough dough for 4 decent sized ones rather than the 3 big ones I made, but you can always make more flatbreads than needed and eat the others cold for lunch the next day or something. Simple and versatile!

To the pork mix add a veggie stock cube and enough water to cover the ingredients (It'll make a watery sauce but we don't need to serve this...), then put in the oven at around 200 degrees - it should take about 25/30 mins for the pork to be tender. I had a sit down for 15 mins before finishing the rest, but then I had pre-prepared by flatbread dough...

Finely chop the other half of the onion, the other half of the courgette, one tomato and the mushrooms (you can use any amount of any of these, really, just we had mushrooms and courgette to use up and not that many tomatoes in the house...). Add the onion and the other minced garlic clove to a pan (I recommend a large saucepan rather than a frying pan) with olive oil. After 2 mins, add the other veg. Fry until soft, then add the chopped tomatoes. Again, this was a leftover, and if you only have full tins use one of those - I had to add a bit of water and some ketchup to get a decent amount of tomato-y sauce!

Add a big squirt of honey and salt, pepper, coriander and chilli powder and simmer, reducing the sauce so that all the veg is covered but it's not runny.

While the salsa is reducing, fry the flatbreads in a little olive oil - preferably in a griddle pan, for that nice patterned burn look, yknow.

Serve!

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Pork Stir Fry.


this is our snazziest bowl.
it is square. it is deep. it is perfect for stir fries, pasta, and salad. it is always - ALWAYS - on the drying rack, because there is always someone in this house who has just used it.

this is also my superamazing chopsticks, as bought in the shop at the design museum in london last year for a measly £1.50. go there, honestly, it's one of the best museum shops i've ever seen. and I know museum shops, trust me.


ok, so, I make stir fries at least once a week. they're quick, and easy, and you can put anything in them. they're an excellent way to use up leftover meat, and they taste goooooood.
this one was especially good, because I marinated the meat beforehand.

this is a recipe for a one person serving.

ingredients
a handful of pork (i used a boneless chop, but any leftover pork shall do)
1/4 red pepper
1/4 yellow pepper
1/4 red onion
1 small garlic clove

1 handful of chopped spring greens
1 handful of beansprouts

one bundle of rice noodles

splashes of:
soy sauce
lemon juice
worcester sauce
ketchup
honey

sprinklings of:
salt
pepper
coriander
chilli powder
ginger
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you can use different coloured peppers or onions, or add in other veg that you prefer, but if you're not sure which ones to add to the marinade, then leave them out. (I put only the peppers and onions in, and I would keep it at that.)

I use rice noodles (from Blue Dragon; I assume they are available at all good supermarkets) because I prefer them, but you can use any noodles you like, I guess! - just follow the instructions on the packet; most noodles require boiling or soaking in boiling water before being added to the wok/frying pan.
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chop up the pork and all your veg into bitesize chunks, then add the first group of ingredients (pork, peppers, onions, garlic) to a tub or bowl. add to these the splashes and sprinklings, but leave the ketchup and honey for now.

put these in the fridge and leave them for a couple of hours - i left mine for about 2 hours and went to watch Misfits and read blogs, but you can leave them overnight or do this on a morning in preparation for an evening meal.

chop and wash the spring greens and pat them dry on kitchen paper - leave them to dry fully. this is how you make crispy seaweed, but you'd need to fry it in a separate frying pan for it to work properly!

when the pork is marinated, the spring greens dry and the noodles ready, start throwing them in a wok or large frying pan with a little oil and keep on stirring. I put the pork in first and let it brown off, then threw in the rest of the veg from the bowl, then the spring greens, then the beansprouts from the freezer.

add a teaspoon of honey and a squirt of ketchup; keep on stirring...

add the noodles; and stir until they're covered in the sauce. everything should now be cooked thoroughly - the food should only be in the pan for a few minutes total!

serve!

fin.
- jenn.