A couple of months back, we ran
a recipe for Brazilian-style pork from Quality Meat Scotland. Today, we're going
to pretend we are in Greece and are following up with a recipe for pork
souvlaki.
One hates to moan but November is a rubbish month. It is dark, wet and cold. The Christmas parties have yet to kick off but the nagging feeling that you should be doing something about your Christmas present list is a constant source of low level guilt.
And, of course, for most of us, the next opportunity to spend a few days somewhere warm and sunny is a long way off.
Faced with such an array of misery, we are tempted to reach for the gin bottle but there will be more than enough of that next month.
Instead we are dipping back into a range of simple recipes from Quality Meat Scotland’s ‘Go Places with Pork’ campaign.
Designed to get us all cooking with Specially Selected Pork, all the recipes have been inspired by cuisines from nations that have sunnier climes than ours.
So, pack your taste buds' travel bags and rustle up a taste of Greece.
I'll put the Mythos beer on ice.
Be sure to use meat that has the Specially Selected Pork logo on it. That way, you will be supporting Scottish farmers and be sure of high production methods and animal welfare standards, all assured by the Scottish SPCA.
Find the full range of recipes at www.scotchkitchen.com.
Pork Souvlaki
Serves 4
Prep time – 15 mins – plus minimum 2hours marinating time
Cook time – 15 mins
Ingredients:
500g leg of pork or diced pork leg.
2 x cloves garlic
2 x peppers
50ml lemon juice
50ml rapeseed oil
1 x tsp dried oregano
Black pepper
Salad
100g cooked white long grain rice
3 x large vine tomatoes
A third of a cucumber
1 x red onion
150g feta cheese
Fresh basil
4 x metal or wooden long kebab sticks
Method:
Soak wooden skewers in water
Cut the pork into medium size chunks
Peel and mince the garlic
Put the oil, lemon juice, garlic and dried oregano into a large bowl, season with some black pepper
Drop the chunks into the oil bowl and mix well
Marinate for a couple of hours, or if possible overnight
Chop the peppers into chunks, try to keep them the same size as the pork
Thread the pork and the peppers onto the skewers
Preheat the grill to high and grill the kebabs for 15 minutes, turning as you grill
For the salad:
Finely chop the red onion, cucumber and tomatoes add to the rice, crumble over the feta and mix well
Serve the souvlaki on a bed of the salad – tear over some basil leaves and serve