Friday, 6 August 2010

slow fried pork chops and boston baked beans

First things first, I'm going to apologise for the lack of pictures, I'm having trouble uploading anything right now. So here as promised is the first recipe I cooked, which was ever so easy to make If time consuming.
I've adapted this recipe from Richard Whittington's book Home Food, a book that sadly seems to be out of print. If you ever see it i highly recommend it, being full of interesting recipes.
The main changes I made was to Quantity's as there was only two of us and I couldn't get any salt pork so I used bacon instead. I started this recipe the night before.

slow fried pork with Boston baked beans

Ingredients

  1. 200g dried haricot beans soaked overnight

  2. half tblsp paprika

  3. 2 pork chump chops

  4. 1 onion, chopped

  5. 1 tin of tomatoes

  6. 2 tblsp muscovado sugar

  7. 2 tblsp black treacle

  8. 1 tsp mustard powder

  9. 3 rashes streaky bacon chopped into small pieces

  10. 1 bay leaf
method

  1. the day before cooking make a paste with the paprika and olive oil. Rub this all over the pork chops and leave to marinade overnight in the fridge.

  2. the next day preheat the oven to a low temperature 150'c, 300'f or gas2.

  3. Bring the beans to a boil and then change the water. Then bring to the boil again turn off the heat and leave. Keep the water in the pan.

  4. Blend the onion, tomatoes and all the other seasonings except the bacon and bay leaf in a blender.

  5. Add this to the beans and bring to the boil on top of the stove, then transfer it all to an ovenproof dish.

  6. Add the bacon and bay leaf, and pop it all in the oven. If your a real cook you could have heated it on the stove in a casserole dish and then put it in the oven. Thus saving yourself some mess and some energy. Oh how i envy you cast iron casserole pan owners.
  7. The recipe then says to bake for 4 hours, mine was done in about 2. Keep a eye on it though. Add water if it seems to be a bit dry and whatnot. This makes a really nice spicy dish of baked beans.
  8. when the beans are done, turn the oven off and leave them in there whilst you cook the chops. I used my cast iron griddle pan as I love the lines you get along the food. But grill or fry however you normally do your chops.
  9. Whilst the beans were cooking I had plenty of time to make the sauce and salads. Now eat with gusto and pretend that your an southern homemaker.
I hope you enjoyed, and I,ll give the recipe for the barbeque sauce next.

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