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Friday, November 02, 2007

Pork and Olive Casserole

This casserole use Pork and green or black olives. If you prefer to make it without the olives it will work just as well.
Ingredients
4 slices of lean pork/4 cups, cut into bite size chunks
4 onions diced fine
2 garlic cloves diced finely
2 green peppers cut into chunks
2 tablespoons of flour to coat the pork
olive oil for frying about 3 tablespoons
salt and pepper to taste
small tin or jar of your chosen olives(do not add extra salt to the casserole if you use olives)
1 large tin of chopped tomatoes or 10 fresh tomatoes chopped
1 teaspoon of basil
1 tablespoon of paprika
2 tablespoons of tomato puree
1/2 pint--10 fl ozs of red wine
Method
Toss meat into the flour and coat
Heat olive oil in a frying pan to a moderate heat.
Fry the pork in the oil until it is browned, remove and place in a casserole dish.
Fry the onions, garlic and peppers add to the casserole
Let the pan cool and add the red wine, stir and pour into the casserole dish.
Add the tomatoes, basil, paprika, tomato puree and olives to the casserole.
Stir the ingredients together in the casserole.
Cook at gas 5 F C for 3 hours
Add salt and pepper to taste
Serve with roast potatoes and roast parsnips, done in the oven at the same time.
Also baked potatoes would be good and could be done in the oven at the same time.
This is a tasty recipe which freezes well.
Thanks for reading. Crazycupcakes





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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey there,

What do you think would be the best vegetarian alternative to the pork in this recipe?

(I'm loving your site, btw - fantastic job!)

-Cat

4:33 AM  
Anonymous Crazycupcakes said...

Hi
Alternatives for the pork. I was once vegetarian for about 8 years so I have a good idea what you are after.
Ideas beans. These days you can get cans of precooked beans which are ideal such as haricot. borloti, red kidney, black eye and chickpeas. I think larger beans would work well.
You can cook beans from dry. Soak overnight and cook in water until soft. I always used to do mine in a pressure cooker. They could always be done in slow cooker. BUT DO NOT DO RED KIDNEY BEANS IN A SLOW COOKER FROM DRY, THEY HAVE A POISON AND NEED TO BOIL.
Other alternatives, textured vegetable protein or quorn. I think these need a lot of good flavouring with them to get it right .
Have any readers got any ideas they could share?
How about making dumplings with vegetable oil and ground nuts? Grind your own choice of nut such as walnut, hazel nut or pecan and add to the dumpling mixture.
See my dumpling recipe with suet, use oil instead.
Add peanut butter to a dumpling mixture.
Hope all this gives you lots of ideas.
Enjoy
Crazycupcakes

9:42 AM  

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