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Pork Loin Curry

Pork Loin Curry

Probably far from traditional, but traditions are ever evolving as far as we are concerned. There were two large Loin Chops in the offers at the local Supermarket. As there are three mouths to feed Sue de-boned them and made this pretty convincing Curry.
 
Ingredients:-
 
2 Pork Loin chops, de-boned, beaten out and then cut into strips
1 Onion, sliced
1 Potato, peeled and cubed
1 large Carrot, peeled and cubed
¼ of a Celeriac, peeled and cubed
A good squeeze of Tomato Purée
1 tin of Chopped Tomatoes
¼ tsp Garam Masala
¼ tsp Cumin
¼ tsp Chilli Flakes
¼ tsp Paprika
3 Dried Red Chillies soaked and then sliced finely
¼ tsp Onion Salt
¼ tsp Garlic Salt
¼ tsp Turmeric
1 large clove of Garlic minced
A Slug of Soy Sauce (Gluten free in our case)
Butter / Margarine
Salt & Pepper to taste
 
Method:-
 
Marinade the Pork in the Soy Sauce.
Add a sprinkle of all the spices except the Red Chillies and Garlic.
Add the Butter / Margarine to a large frying pan and gently fry the Onions until softened.
Add the Potatoes, Carrots and Celeriac, fry for 10 minutes.
Add the remaining spices and cook for a further 2 minutes.
Add the Pork and stir until the Pork is browned.
Add the Tomato Purée, tinned Tomatoes and a little water if the sauce is too think.
Simmer for 20 minutes stirring regularly.
 
We served ours with Turmeric boiled Rice and home made Onion Bhajis ( Recipe here )

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Shaggy Ink Caps (Coprinus comatus) as a very safe beginners foraged Mushroom. There’s nothing which looks much like them which will do you any harm. However they have a very short shelf life and can be a bit slimy if you just throw them in a pan and fry them. But battered they were really good.

Ingredients:-

4 Tbsp of Gram Flour
5 Tbsps of Cornflour
Salt & fresh ground Black Pepper to season
2 Tsps of Baking Powder
2 Tsps of Turmeric
1 TSp of Garlic Granules
1 Tsp of Onion Salt
Soda Water

Method:-

(1) Cut the stalk off the Mushrooms.
(2) Keep 1 Tbsp of Cornflour aside.
(3) Mix the remaining ingredients to form a thick Batter.
(4) Damp the Mushrooms with a little Water and roll the in Cornflour.
(5) Coat with the Batter Mix.
(6) Deep fry at 160c until the Batter is crispy.
(7) Drain on kitchen paper.

We had ours as an addition to a Pork stir-fry with the Pork Loin strips coated in the same batter.

 

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