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Slow-cooked Pulled Pork with Paprika-spiced Fries & Pickled Slaw
Who said mid-week dinners have to be boring? Here, we have done the hard work for you, by slow-cooking British pulled pork until melt-in-your-mouth tender. Simmer it in a sweet 'n spicy homemade barbecue sauce. Pair it with a zingy pickled slaw and vibrant carrot and sweet potato fries. There will sure be no leftovers here.
High protein
1/3 daily fibre
5 of 5 a day
Low sat fat
Serving size
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp smoked paprika
- 25g honey
- 200g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 1 tbsp tamari (Soya) (water, soybeans, salt, spirit vinegar)
- 1 tbsp Cajun spice mix (use half) (Cumin, Black Pepper, Sea Salt, Fennel, Green Cardamom, Coriander, Rubbed Oregano, Rubbed Thyme, Paprika Flakes, Cayenne Pepper.)
- 275g 6 hour slow-cooked pork (pork collar, tapioca starch, salt, garlic powder, sage, black pepper, bay leaf.)
- 2 garlic clove
- 2 tbsp red wine vinegar
- 1 little gem lettuce
- 1 handful of fresh chives
- 1 onion
- 2 small sweet potato
- 2 carrot
Nutritional Information
Calories: 673
Protein: 34g
Carbs: 84g
Fat: 25g
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Cajun spice mix (use a quarter) (Cumin, Black Pepper, Sea Salt, Fennel, Green Cardamom, Coriander, Rubbed Oregano, Rubbed Thyme, Paprika Flakes, Cayenne Pepper.)
- 2 small sweet potato
- 1 tbsp tamari (use half) (Soya) (water, soybeans, salt, spirit vinegar)
- 2 tbsp red wine vinegar (use half)
- 200g passata (use half) (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 1 handful of fresh chives (use half)
- 2 garlic clove
- 1 little gem lettuce (use half)
- 1 tbsp smoked paprika (use half)
- 2 carrot
- 25g honey (use half)
- 140g 6 hour slow-cooked pork (pork collar, tapioca starch, salt, garlic powder, sage, black pepper, bay leaf.)
- 1 onion (use half)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 919
Protein: 38g
Carbs: 143g
Fat: 26g
Slow-cooked Pulled Pork with Paprika-spiced Fries & Pickled Slaw
Who said mid-week dinners have to be boring? Here, we have done the hard work for you, by slow-cooking British pulled pork until melt-in-your-mouth tender. Simmer it in a sweet 'n spicy homemade barbecue sauce. Pair it with a zingy pickled slaw and vibrant carrot and sweet potato fries. There will sure be no leftovers here.
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Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- Preheat the oven to 240C / fan 220C / gas mark 9 / air fryer 190C
- Line a baking tray with parchment paper
- Pull out a medium saucepan, a large bowl, a peeler & a grater
Make the fries
- Cut the sweet potatoes and 1 carrot into 1cm fries (peel optional)
- Place the sweet potato onto the lined baking tray, then toss with half the paprika, 1/2 tsp oil, salt and pepper
- Roast for 5 mins / air fryer 5 mins
- After 5 mins, add the carrot, toss with the sweet potato and roast for a further 20-25 mins / air fryer 15, until soft and golden
Slaw time
- Coarsely grate the remaining carrot. Finely slice the onion. Finely chop the chives. Trim and thinly slice the lettuce
- In the large bowl, combine the lettuce, grated carrot, half the chives, half the onion and three-quarters of the vinegar. Season with salt and set aside to pickle
Simmer simmer
- Finely chop or crush the garlic
- Heat the medium saucepan with 1/2 tsp oil on medium heat. Once hot, add the garlic and remaining onion, then cook for 2-3 mins, until softened
- Add the pork and all its juices to the pan. Cook for 1 min, then add the half pack of Cajun spice mix, the passata, honey, tamari, remaining paprika and remaining vinegar
- Gently pull apart any larger pieces of pork. Simmer for 10 mins, until the sauce thickens. Season with salt and pepper
Last bits & plate up
- Share the pulled pork between plates, with the fries and slaw alongside. Sprinkle over the remaining chives
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