I expected to have my kids this weekend (they are now teenagers and gigantic), but no. So it is slow cooker therapy for this bachelor dad!
I looked in my fruit bowl, I looked in my garden, I looked in my pantry and fridge - and came up with this - slow cooked fruity pork.
Ingredients
- 1kg diced pork
- 1 onion roughly chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 3 small plums halved and pitted
- 1 lime sliced
- 3 cardamom pods, crushed
- Ground pepper to taste
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
Method
Use a slow cooker or a heavy based casserole dish with a well-fitting lid. I used my trusty slowy.
In the slow cooker place all the ingredients except the pork onion, and olive oil.
In a frying pan, bring the oil to a frying heat and fry the pork in small batches. You need space around each piece so that the juices evaporate quickly and you get lovely brown bits on the edges. Remove each batch to the slow cooker.
Once you’ve finished the pork, drop the heat to low and add the onion. Once again it’s brown at the edges you are looking for, and you cook until it’s half translucent.
Remove to the slow cooker, making sure you scrape up all the yummy brown bits with a wooden spoon.
I have my cooker set on auto, which does what you want - bring slowly to a high simmer, then drop to a regular one.
In a casserole dish, cook covered for 2–3 hours. In a slow cooker 6.
I would like to say I chose green chillies so that their bitterness would offset the sweetness of the fruit and sugar. It’s just that my chillies out back are green!
However bitterness does offset sweetness.
Bachelor dad, signing off.
