MUSTARD-CRUSTED PORK WITH CARROTS AND LENTILS

SERVES 4

• ACTIVE TIME:10 MIN
• START TO FINISH:35 MIN

• 1 lb precut fresh carrot sticks
• 5 1/2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
• 1 (1 1/4-lb) pork tenderloin
• 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard, divided
• 1/4 cup fine dry bread crumbs
• 2 garlic cloves, smashed
• 2 fresh thyme sprigs
• 2 (15-oz) cans lentils, rinsed and drained
• 2/3 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth

• Preheat oven to 425ºF with rack in middle.
• Toss carrots with 2 tablespoons oil and 1/4 teaspoon each of salt and pepper in a shallow baking pan and roast while preparing pork.
• Pat pork dry and sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon salt. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over medium-high heat until it shimmers, then brown pork all over, about 3 minutes total.
• Put pork on a work surface and brush with 1 tablespoon mustard. Stir together bread crumbs and 1/2 tablespoon oil, then press onto mustard on pork to form a crust.
• Transfer pork to pan with carrots and roast until carrots are browned and tender and an instant-read thermometer inserted into center of meat registers 140 to 145ºF, 15 to 22 minutes. Let pork stand 5 minutes; keep carrots warm, covered (or continue roasting if needed).
• While pork roasts, heat remaining 2 tablespoons oil with garlic and thyme in a small saucepan until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in lentils, broth, and remaining tablespoon mustard and cook until heated through. Season with salt and pepper and discard thyme. Serve pork with carrots and lentils.

CHIPOTLE PORK CHEESEBURGERS

• 1 lb ground pork (not lean)
• 2 teaspoons minced chipotle in adobo plus 1 teaspoon adobo sauce
• 2 garlic cloves, forced through a garlic press
• 4 slices Muenster cheese
• 4 hamburger buns, toasted
• 1/4 cup mayonnaise
• 1 large tomatillo (1/4 lb), husked and rinsed, then sliced
• 1/2 small avocado, sliced
• 1/2 cup cilantro sprigs

• Prepare a gas grill for direct-heat cooking over medium heat; see “Grilling Procedure.”
• Gently mix pork, chipotle, garlic, and a scant tsp salt until just combined. Form into 4 (1/2-inch-thick) patties.
• Oil grill rack, then grill patties, covered, 4 minutes.
• Flip patties and top with a slice of cheese. Grill, covered, until just cooked through, 1 to 2 minutes more.
• Spread buns with mayonnaise and assemble burgers with tomatillo, avocado, and cilantro.

COOKS’ NOTE: Burgers can be grilled in an oiled hot 2-burner grill pan over medium heat, about 10 minutes total.

Filled Pork Scallops with Tomato Sauce

Ingredients: 3 pork scallops, tomato tapenade, mozzarella, salt, pepper, 6 slices raw ham, 50 grams diced bacon, 1 onion, thyme, oregano, 5 tomatoes, 100 ml red wine, 1 tablespoon pesto ,

Preheat the oven at 170 degrees. Cover 3 thin pork scallops with tomato tapenade and put mozzarella on. Roll the pork scallops and season with salt and pepper. Wrap each pork scallop rolls into 2 slices raw ham. Bake the rolls brown in hot butter. Put the rolls into an oveproof dish.

Bake in the remaining oil 50 grams diced bacon with 1 finely chopped onion, thyme and oregano until the onion is soft. Add 5 diced tomatoes and stir fry briefly. Add 100 ml red wine and 1 tablespoon pesto. Bring it to the boil so that the alcohol evaporates.

Add the tomato sauce with the pork scallops rolls in the ovenproof dish. Place the ovenproof dish about 30 minutes in the preheated oven. Serve it with potatoes and a salad. Enjoy!

Carrot Blini’s and Swiss Pork Scallops

Wortelblini
Ingredients: 1 carrot, 1 small onion, 1 egg, 25 grams of flour, dill, grated cheese,

Preheat the oven to 175 degrees. Mix 1 grated carrot with 1 small onion, 1 egg, 25 grams flour and dill to taste. Heat oil in a frying pan and bake the blini’s brown at both sides. Place the blini’s on a baking tray. Sprinkle grated cheese over the carrot blini’s and place the baking tray about 10 minutes in the preheated oven.

Swiss Schnitzel
Ingredients: 2 pork scallops, salt, pepper, nutmeg, 1 onion, 250 grams chestnut mushrooms, 100 ml white wine, 200 ml cream,

Cut 2 pork scallops in slices and season with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Cook the pork scallops slices brown in hot oil. Shovel the pork scallop slices from the pan and stir fry in the remaining fat 1 finely chopped onion with 250 grams sliced chestnut mushrooms for about 3 minutes. Add 100 ml white wine and let the alcohol evaporate. A 200 ml cream and bring to the boil. Add the pork scallops and let it simmer on low heat for about 10 minutes.

Serve the carrot blini’s and Swiss pork scallops with baked potatoes. Enjoy!

Rice with Sweet Pork

Today sweet pork or in Vietnamese words: thit heo kho kho

Ingredients: rice, 3 spring onions, 700 grams streaky bacon, salt, pepper, 2 tablespoons sugar, 750 ml water, 2 tablespoons fish sauce

Boil the rice according pack instructions Bake in hot oil 3 chopped spring onions to soft. Add 700 grams diced streaky bacon and add salt, pepper and 2 tablespoons sugar. Stir until the meat is no longer pink. Pour about 750 ml water and bring it briefly to the boil. Then lower the heat and let it simmer for about an hour. The water should almost be dry. Add to last 2 tablespoons fish sauce and heat for 10 more minutes. Serve the sweet pork with rice and snow peas, for example. Enjoy!

Italian Filled Pork Scallop

Ingredients: 2 pork scallops, pesto, 1 grilled pepper, mozzarella, salt, pepper,

Try to get 2 pork scallops as flat as possible. Grease 1 side of the escalope with green pesto. Cut 1 grilled red pepper in half. Put a half grilled pepper on each pork scallop. Put pieces of mozzarella on it. Fold the pork scallops and bind it with kitchen string. Season the pork scallops with salt and pepper. Bake the pork scallops brown on both sides and let the pork scallops be wel cooked om lower heat. Serve with potatoes and a salad. Enjoy!

Pork Chops with Cream Cheese

Ingredients: 100 grams cream cheese, 1 shallot, 1 garlic clove, parsley, chives, 2 pork chops, salt, pepper,

Mix 100 grams of cream cheese with 1 finely chopped shallot, 1 finely chopped garlic clove, chives and parsley. Cut 2 pork chops open as an envelope and fill it with seasoned cream cheese. Season the pork chops with salt and pepper. Bake the filled pork chops to brown in hot butter. Put a little seasoned cream cheese on the pork chops. Lower the heat and let pork chops be cooked well. Serve with baked potato and salad rolls. Enjoy!

Pork Roulade with Tomatoes and Mozzarella

Ingredients: 1 pork roulade, 1 onion, thyme, 250 ml sieved tomatoes, 1 stock cube, 3 tomatoes, mozzarella,

Bake 1 pork roulade around brown. Lower the heat when the roulade is brown and add a little water. Let the roulade be cooked in 45 minutes. Preheat the oven at 170 degrees. Remove the net or the strings of the roulade and cut into slices. Keep separately. Bake in hot oil 1 chopped onion with thyme until the onion is soft. Add 250 ml sieved tomatoes and crumbled stock cube. Bring to the boil briefly, then pour the tomato sauce in an oveproof dish. Cut 3 tomatoes and 1 mozzarella in slices. Put in the ovenproof dish with the slices roulade with in between tomato and/or mozzarella slices. Place the ovenproof dish about 20 minutes in the preheated oven or until the mozzarella has melted. Good with a salad and Flemish fries. Enjoy!

Pork Tenderloin with Sundried Tomatoes and Mozzarella

Ingredients 1 pork tenderloin (about 300 grams), 3 sundried tomatoes, 1/2 ball mozzarella, cheese spread, salt, pepper, 1/2 cube stock, 50 ml cream, 50 ml water,

Number of persons: 2

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Cut the tenderloin in 2 and cut the tenderloin open. Spread with cheese spread. Chop 3 sundried tomatoes finely and spread it with pieces mozzarella on the pork tenderloins.Fold the the tenderloin, Don’t forget the tail to double fold it so you have the same thickness everywhere. Season with salt and pepper. Bake the pork tenderloin around brown in hot butter. Add to the gravy 1/2 cube stock, 50 ml cream and 50 ml water, stir to dissolve. Place the pork tenderloin in a ovenproof dish and pour the gravy in it. Place the ovenproof dish about 20 minutes in the preheated oven. Serve with a salad and baked potatoes. Enjoy!

Spaghetti with Leek and Pork Scallops

Ingredients: spaghetti, 1 pork scallop, salt, pepper, 1 leek, 200 grams mushrooms, 150 ml stock, 1 teaspoon mustard, 100 ml cream,

Number of persons: 2

Cook the spaghetti in boiling water al dente with a little salt. Cut 1 pork scallop in strips and season with salt and pepper. Cook the pork scallop strips around brown in hot oil. Add 1 chopped leek and 200 grams sliced mushrooms. Stir fry until the mushrooms have softened. Add 150 ml stock and 1 teaspoon mustard. Bring all to boil. Lower the heat, add 100 ml cream, and let it all simmer for about 10 minutes. Serve with spaghetti. Enjoy!

Pork Scallops with Tomato Sauce

Ingredients: 4 pork scallops, salt, pepper, 2 eggs, breadcrumbs, oregano, 1 onion, 1 garlic clove, thyme, 50 ml red wine 3 tomatoes, 1 tin diced tomatoes, 1 tablespoon sugar, mozzarella, grated cheese,

Number of persons: 3

Preheat the oven at 160 degrees. Cut 4 pork scallops in piece. Season with salt and pepper. Get it through 2 beaten eggs and then by breadcrumbs seasoned with oregano. Bake the pork scallop pieces brown in hot butter and put in an ovenproof dish. Place the ovenproof dish in the preheated oven. Meanwhile make the tomato sauce. Bake in hot oil 1 chopped onion with 1 finely chopped garlic clove and thyme until the onion is soft. Add 50 ml red wine and let the alcohol evaporate. Add 3 diced tomatoes and 1 tin diced tomatoes again. Stir in 1 tablespoon sugar and let it simmer gently for about 10 minutes. Remove the ovenproof dish from the oven and put the tomato sauce over the pork scallops. Scatter pieces mozzarella and grated cheese over it. Place the ovenproof dish back in the oven so the cheese and mozzarella can melt. Serve with baked potatoes and a salad. Enjoy!

Pork Fillets with Mascarpone Sauce

Ingredients: 6 thin pork fillets, salt, pepper, 1 onion, 1 tablespoon flour, 50 ml white wine, 250 ml mascarpone,

Number of persons: 2

Sprinkle 6 pork fillets with salt and pepper. Bake the pork fillets brown on both sides. Remove from pan and keep warm in the oven or under aluminum foil. Bake in the remaining fat 1 finely chopped onion to soft. Add 1 tablespoon flour and fry briefly. Pour 50 ml white wine in and let the alcohol evaporate. Turn off the heat. Stir 250 ml mascarpone in and let it melt. Bring to taste with salt and pepper. Serve the pork fillet with mascarpone sauce, saute potatoes and a salad. Enjoy!

Pork Tenderloin Sweet & Sour and Rice

Ingredients: rice, 1 pork tenderloin, 1 onion, 1 yellow pepper, ginger powder, 200 ml vegetable stock, 100 ml red wine vinegar, 4 tablespoons honey, 3 spring onions,

Number of persons: 3

Boil the rice according pack instrictions or the way you normally do. Bake in hot oil 1 diced pork tenderloin brown. Add 1 chopped onion, 1 chopped yellow pepper and ginger powder to taste. Stir fry about 5 minutes. Add 200 ml vegetable stock, 100 ml red wine vinegar and 4 tablespoons of honey. Bring to the boil briefly and then let it simmer for about 10 minutes. Add 1 minute before the end 3 sliced spring onions. Serve with rice. Enjoy!

Pork Scallops Rolls

Ingredients: 2 pork scallops, salt, pepper, basil, mozzarella, 1 grilled red pepper, 4 slices bacon,

Number of persons: 2

Flatten 2 pork scallops. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and chopped basil to taste. Then put pieces of mozzarella and small pieces of 1 grilled red pepper. Roll or fold the pork scallops. Enfold each pork scallop roll with 2 slices bacon. Tie with kitchen string the pork scallops to fixed. Place the pork scallops rolls in an ovenproof dish. Turn the ovenproof dish about 25 minutes in the preheated oven. Serve with baked potatoes and a salad. Enjoy!

Rice Vermicelli with Pork and Red Pepper

Ingredients: (rice vermicelli), 300 grams minced pork, 3 tablespoons soy sauce, 2 tablespoons sweet chilli sauce, 1 red pepper, 3 spring onions,

Number of persons: 3

Prepare the rice vermicelli according to the pack instructions. Mix 300 grams minced pork with 3 tablespoons soy sauce and 2 tablespoons sweet chilli sauce. Leave it for a quarter of an hour. Then bake the minced pork loose in some oil. Add 1 sliced red pepper and 3 sliced spring onions. Stir fry for a minute or 5. Serve with the rice vermicelli. Enjoy!

Pork Scallops in Creamy Sweet Chilli Sauce

Ingredients: rice, 1 onion, paprika, 2 pork scallops, 200 grams mushrooms, 3 tablespoons sweet chilli sauce, 100 ml cream, chives,

Number of persons: 2

Boil the rice according to the instructions on the package. Bake in hot oil 1 shredded onion with paprika to taste until the onion is glassy. Add 2 pork scallops cut in slices and stir fry until the pork scallops are brown. Then add 200 grams sliced mushrooms and stir fry until the mushrooms have softened. Add 3 tablespoons sweet chilli sauce, 100 ml cream and chives to taste and heat well. Serve with rice. Enjoy!

Pork Tenderloin Sticks

Ingredients: 2 pork tenderloins, 100 grams bacon, 2 onions,

Number of persons: 3

Cut 2 pork tenderloins in slices. Wind half the pork slices with slices bacon. Cut 2 onions in slices. Prick the tenderloin slices and slices onion on sticks. Bake the pork tenderloin sticks brown on medium heat in about a 15 minutes. Serve with a salad and fries. Enjoy

Pork Chops with Toasted Spice Rub and Apple Dressing

Taylor sure got a treat this week: steak and pork in the same week. Very unusual in our kitchen. Maybe because I’ve always been biased against pork, and steak (at least the good pieces) are too expensive to eat on a regular basis. This is the reason you’ll always see more lentils and tofu on our plates than meat. That is, except for this week.

Taylor’s verdict: this is good. I shall not sway your opinion of this one way or another by saying what I thought of it. If you like pork, this is a great fall dish that’ll have your kitchen smelling delicious for the next few hours.

Pork Chops with Toasted Spice Rub and Apple Dressing

Makes 4 servings. Recipe from Michael Chiarello.

INGREDIENTS
For Honey Roasted Apple Sauce:
12 apples, Gravenstein or McIntosh
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon finely ground sea salt, preferably gray salt
1/3 cup honey

For Spice Rub:
1/4 cup fennel seeds
1 tablespoon coriander seeds
1 tablespoon peppercorns
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1/4 cup pure California chili powder
2 tablespoons kosher salt
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon

4 (12-ounce) center-cut pork chops
Gray salt
2 tablespoons Toasted Spice Rub, recipe follows
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/3 cup dry white wine
1/2 cup Honey Roasted Apple Sauce, recipe follows

DIRECTIONS
Make apple sauce: Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.

Peel the apples with a vegetable peeler, remove the core and cut into 1-inch chunks, place in a large bowl. Heat a large skillet or roasting pan over medium-high heat. Add the butter. When the butter begins to brown, add lemon juice, then add the apples and salt. Cook until the apples just begin to color, about 4 minutes. Stir in the honey. Roast the apples in the oven until soft and lightly caramelized, about 12 minutes. Fork mash for a chunky version or puree in food processor for a smoother sauce. Set aside.

Make spice rub: Toast the fennel seeds, coriander seeds, and peppercorns in a small, heavy pan over medium heat. When the fennel begins to turn light brown, add the red pepper flakes, and toss several times. Immediately turn the spice mixture out onto a plate to cool.

Put in a blender with the chili powder, salt, and cinnamon and blend until the spices are evenly ground. If you have a small spice mill or a coffee grinder dedicated to grinding spices, grind only the fennel, coriander, pepper, and chili flakes. Pour into a bowl and toss with the remaining ingredients. Keep the spice mix in a glass jar in a cool, dry place, or freeze.

Note: If you have an exhaust fan over your stove, turn it on before you start toasting the spices. Be careful not to inhale the fumes once you add the red pepper flakes.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Season both sides of the pork chops with salt and toasted spice rub.

Heat the oil in an ovenproof skillet over medium heat and sear the pork chops until golden brown, about 4 minutes on 1side and 1 minute on the other side. Place pork chops on baking sheet. Remove excess oil from skillet.

Bake the chops until just cooked through, about 8 to 10 minutes. Remove to a serving platter.

Over medium heat, add the wine to the skillet, stir, and reduce to 1 to 2 tablespoons; add the apple sauce and bring to a simmer. Spoon over each chop.

Asian Pork and Mushroom Burger Wraps

Yes, I realize posts have been rather sparse lately, and chances are they will remain so through the bulk of July. Why you ask? Well, something big and exciting, the likes of which I’ll post about shortly. But it has been keeping us more than occupied, and while we have still been cooking, I just haven’t had the time nor energy to write about it.

But I do have a few recipes backlogged, which tends to happen when things get busy. This one in particular, which came from the newest issue of Bon Appetit, was quite stunning. Asian Pork Burger Wraps – wrapped in butter lettuce rather than a bun, which made it a fun combination between a burger and a lettuce wrap (go figure).

I was drawn to this issue’s feature on summer burger recipes because of the photographs. You can see an example of the aforementioned asian pork burgers. The ‘deconstructed’ burger photos were all too familiar (and Jeremy – you will know exactly what I am talking about here!), because of an assignment I had in a drawing class in college. The project was ‘exploding food’, where we drew a food item in the process of exploding into it’s various parts and ingredients. An informational diagram of sorts, much like a blueprint tells you how to build a house, the drawings tell you how to build the food. While I chose to do an ice cream sundae, the example for the project was of a burger.

Maybe I could have skipped the long winded description and just shown more pictures?

From Bon Appetit:

Drawing from CDES333:

(I can’t believe I still had this drawing saved on my computer!)

Anyways, I think Chris Ficken (the awesome professor of aforementioned drawing class) would approve of this recipe, or at least it’s presentation!

Asian Pork and Mushroom Burger Wraps

Makes 6 servings. Recipe from Bon Appetit.

INGREDIENTS
2 tablespoons canola oil or peanut oil
2 tablespoons minced lemongrass (from bottom 3 inches of about 4 stalks)
2 garlic cloves, minced
4 ounces fresh shiitake mushrooms, stemmed, caps chopped
1 teaspoon coarse kosher salt, divided
1 3/4 pounds ground pork shoulder (Boston butt)
2 tablespoons soy sauce, divided
3 teaspoons Asian sesame oil, divided
3/4 teaspoon cracked black pepper
1/2 cup hoisin sauce*
1 tablespoon minced peeled fresh ginger
1 tablespoon unseasoned rice vinegar
1 teaspoon hot chili sauce (such as sriracha)*
Nonstick vegetable oil spray
2 heads of Bibb lettuce, cored, leaves separated
1 cup matchstick-size strips red bell pepper
1 cup matchstick-size strips peeled carrot
1/3 cup fresh cilantro leaves

DIRECTIONS
Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add lemongrass and garlic; sauté 2 minutes. Add mushrooms. Sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt; sauté until mushrooms are tender, about 4 minutes. Remove from heat; cool in skillet.

Place pork in large bowl. Mix in 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 1 teaspoon sesame oil, cracked pepper, and 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt, then fold in mushroom mixture. Using 2 generous tablespoonfuls for each, shape into 18 patties, each about 2 1/4 inches in diameter; arrange on plastic-lined baking sheet.

Whisk hoisin sauce, ginger, vinegar, chili sauce, and remaining 1 tablespoon soy sauce and 2 teaspoons sesame oil in small bowl for sauce. DO AHEAD: Burgers and sauce can be made 6 hours ahead. Cover separately; chill.

Spray grill rack with nonstick spray. Prepare barbecue (medium-high heat ). Grill burgers until cooked through, about 3 minutes per side. Or heat a few tablespoons oil in a non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Cook burgers until browned and cooked through, about 3-4 minutes per side.

Arrange burgers on platter; set out sauce. Place lettuce, bell pepper, carrot, and cilantro in separate bowls. Serve, allowing guests to wrap burgers in lettuce and add sauce and vegetables as desired.

Glazed Pork Tenderloin

There is so much to be said for a meal that is versatile (you can serve the leftovers multiple ways and still make everybody happy); simple (it takes hardly any preparation and cooks with almost no oversight); and tasty (it satisfied the sweet tooth and the salty tooth in our household). Yes - lots to be said about it - as I've just proven to you! It's no secret that we're a pork-loving household; this isn't the first tenderloin recipe I've shared, and I doubt it will be the last. But this one? It's going into my cooking repertoire. I've told you about that file before; it's called the If I Ever Own a Bed and Breakfast file. This recipe? It's already in it.

Glazed Pork Tenderloin / AllRecipes / Submitted by Bernice Dean
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Ingredients

• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1 (1 pound) pork tenderloin
• 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
• 1/2 cup pineapple preserves
• 1 tablespoon prepared horseradish

Directions

1. Combine salt and pepper; rub over pork. Place in a 13-in. x 9-in. x 2-in. baking pan coated with nonstick cooking spray. Place one sprig of rosemary under the pork and one on top. Bake, uncovered, at 425 degrees F for 10 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, in a saucepan, heat preserves and horseradish until preserves are melted; stir until blended. Remove top rosemary sprig. Brush pork with 1/4 cup pineapple sauce. Bake 10-20 minutes longer or until meat thermometer reads 160 degrees F. Let stand for 5 minutes before slicing. Serve with the remaining sauce.