Pork Polpette with Pasta was a dish that worked out pretty
well. I made some plum sized pork balls and then cooked them in chicken stock. After they were finished I re-used the chicken
stock to cook orzo style pasta.
Ingredients
for the Pork Polpette:
½ kilo of
pork mince
Onion salt
Garlic salt
Small pinch
each of dried sage and thyme
White
pepper – generous amounts
Breadcrumbs
½ tsp hot
English mustard powder
Small
amount of finely chopped fresh chilli (seeds and membranes removed)
Grated knob
of fresh ginger (I keep mine in the freezer and grate it from frozen with a
microplane)
Small
amount of diced red bell pepper
Fresh
parsley/basil – chopped
Grated
parmesan
1 egg
Mix all
that together – but don't over-work it.
Roll it into plum sized balls with wet hands and pop into the fridge for
an hour or 2. If I want to try and have
even sized balls I use a measuring spoon or ice cream scoop to make each one
the same.
When you
are ready to cook, pop the polpette into just boiling chicken stock for 10-15
minutes. Do them in batches rather than
all at once. The first batches will need
less time because they'll continue to cook a little when there are sitting wrapped
in foil.
For the
pasta, first fry up some chopped onion and garlic in a mix of butter and olive
oil. Add your pasta (I used a small rice
like one). Fry for a couple of minutes,
add a touch of limoncello (or white wine) to deglaze the pan and then add your
still hot chicken stock gradually at first.
Serve when
the rice is tender (about 15 minutes).
Not diet food but delicious!
You come up with such good recipes!! Minced pork.....I wonder if that would be like sausage here. Not sure I have ever seen minced pork in the grocery stores.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet the orzo has a ton of flavor cooked that way.
ReplyDeleteI love orzo, so I'm happy to see it featured twice this week!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know you could keep fresh ginger in the freezer! Great idea! This meal sounds and looks very tasty!
ReplyDeleteI always keep my extra ginger in the freezer-it is such a good tip. I like the flavor of orzo.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, I could happily gobble up a very big serving of that :-)
ReplyDeleteSue
Oooh, this looks delicious Carole! I bet the flavor of that orzo is amazing. :)
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