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
- 200g dried haricot beans soaked overnight
- half tblsp paprika
- 2 pork chump chops
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 tin of tomatoes
- 2 tblsp muscovado sugar
- 2 tblsp black treacle
- 1 tsp mustard powder
- 3 rashes streaky bacon chopped into small pieces
- 1 bay leaf
method
- 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.
- the next day preheat the oven to a low temperature 150'c, 300'f or gas2.
- 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.
- Blend the onion, tomatoes and all the other seasonings except the bacon and bay leaf in a blender.
- Add this to the beans and bring to the boil on top of the stove, then transfer it all to an ovenproof dish.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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