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Cookin' It Country Pork Chops with Hot Sweet Potatoes

Resident cook Nigel Barden is here with today's mouth-watering 'Foodie Thursday' dish. Plus, Simon has another one of your confessions for the collective to mull over.

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Coffee-brined Pork Chops with Hot Sweet Potatoes

by Diana Henry from 鈥楽imple - Effortless Food, Big Flavours鈥� (Mitchell Beazley)

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This sounds strange, but it works.听 The coffee gives the chops a good deep flavour, almost tobacco-ey.听 Them Southern cooks know a thing or two about pork.

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Serves 4

Prep time 15 mins + overnight marinating

Cooking time 40 mins

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Ingredients

6 tbsp soft dark brown or molasses sugar

30g (1oz) sea-salt flakes

1 litre (1戮 pints) freshly brewed hot coffee

4 big pork chops, about 250-275g (9-9戮oz) each

4 sweet potatoes

Black pepper

1陆 tbsp rendered pork fat, lard or flavourless oil

25g (scant 10oz) unsalted butter

leaves from 4 sprigs of thyme

1 red and 1 green chilli, deseeded and finely sliced

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Method

Stir the sugar and salt flakes into the coffee until dissolved. Add 200ml (7fl oz) of cold water and leave to cool completely. Put this brine in a large container and add the chops, making sure they鈥檙e submerged. Cover and put in the fridge for 6/8 hours.

Remove the chops from the marinade and pat dry with kitchen paper. Return the听chops to the fridge 鈥� uncovered, so that they dry out a little 鈥� and leave for a听couple more hours.

When you鈥檙e ready to eat, preheat the oven to 200C/400F/gas mark 6.听 Bake then听sweet potatoes for about 30mins, timing them to be ready at the same time as the chops.

Season the chops (you won鈥檛 need much salt but pepper is important), heat the听fat or oil in a frying-pan and cook over a high heat on both sides and on the fat to听get a good colour. Reduce the heat to medium and continue, turning every so听often, until cooked (8-10 mins).

Melt the butter in a small frying pan and add the thyme and chillies.听 Cook for听about a minute then split the sweet potatoes and drizzle the insides with the听butter.听 Serve with the chops.


Nigel鈥檚 Top Tip

Alternatively, you can make a sweet potato hash, saut茅ing cubes of sweet potato with thyme, onion and Tabasco.

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Broadcast

  • Thu 2 Mar 2017 17:05
    大象传媒 Radio 2