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Pork Curry Fake Away

Pork Curry Fake Away

We had a little Roasted Pork Shoulder in the fridge. So as it seems Fake Aways are a Lock Down thing at the moment we thought we’d join the club. The curry was a bit of a cheat for us as we actually bought a jar of Jalfrezi sauce and the Popedums we bought as well. Our bad!

I’ll not bother with a recipe for the curry. It was a bought curry sauce, Passata, baby New Potatoes, cubed cooked Port etc. Simmered gently.

Sides wise we had some button Mushrooms which needed eating so we made…

Mushroom Bhaji

Ingredients:-

100g Button Mushrooms
2 Onion roughly chopped
100g Gram flour
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp Chilli powder
½ tsp Turmeric
Water
Salt
Oil to fry

Method:-

(1) Mix all the ingredients with enough water to make a really sticky batter concoction.
(2) Deep fry at 180c in batches until they float and are golden brown.
(3) Drian on kitchen paper.
(4) re-dunk in the fryer when the rest of the meal is ready to serve.

Cucumber Salad

Ingredients:-

½ a Cucumber, cut into small cubes
½ an Onion, finely sliced
1 Tomato, finely diced
Cider Vinegar
Lemon Juice
Dried Mint
Oil

Method:-

(1) Mix it all up!

Saag Aloo

Ingredients:-

250g Fresh Spinach
200g New Potatoes, halved
Garlic Salt
Chilli Flakes
Oil

Method:-

(1) Boil the Potatoes for 5 minutes and set aside.
(2) Drain the Potatoes and transfer all the ingredients into a Wok or large frying pan.
(3) Fry and stir until the Spinach has wilted and the Potatoes are tender.

The curry was served on a bed of Turmeric Rice with a little home grown Parsley as a garnish. Pretty tasty meal made from a few bits & bobs which needed using up and about £2 of bought bits…...

 

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Chinese Style Bacon Chops

Bacon Chops are an infrequent visitor to our plate, mostly because Sue isn’t keen really. But at 0.75p for two good sized boneless chops in the discounts they were bound to come home with me really.

So Sue went a bit “Chefy”!

Ingredients:-

2 Boneless Bacon Chops
1/5 of a Red Cabbage, sliced
1/2 Spring Green Cabbage, sliced
2 Potatoes, cubed and blanched
½ a large Onion, sliced
2 cloves of Garlic, grated
Soy Sauce
Mixed Herbs
Black Pepper
OilIngredients:-

Method:-

(1) Mix Soy Sauce, Black Pepper and Garlic to make a marinade and pop your Bacon Chops in it.
(2) Mix Oil and Mixed Herbs with your cubed potatoes and lay on a baking try.
(3) Add Oil and Soy Sauce to a Wok or large frying pan.
(4) Put the Plum Sauce ingredients (See below) in a saucepan on a low heat. Stir occasionally.
(5) Heat the over to 180c and put the cubed Potatoes in.
(6) After 20 minutes heat your Wok / Frying pan and start by gently frying the Onion and Garlic.
(7) In a separate pan sear the Bacon chops in a little oil on both sides.
(8) Transfer the Bacon chops to the oven.
(9) Add the Cabbage to the Onion and Garlic and stir in the remaining marinade.
(10) Add the Mixed Herbs and Black Pepper.
(11) Press the Plum Sauce through a sieve to separate the skins and stones.
(12) Cut the chops in to generous strips.
(13) Plate the fried Cabbage first, with the Bacon over the top and dress with Plum Sauce.
(14) Add the Cubed Potatoes to both sides of the plate and you’re good to go!

Plum Sauce ingredients:-

300g of frozen foraged Plums ( A punnet of red supermarket Plums will do the trick!)
1 tbsp Soy Sauce
1 tbsp Sugar

We’ve been growing micro salad which we scattered on top just to be a bit flash!
 

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