Pork in Tomatillo Sauce
I love this Mexican meal of sauted pork with tomatillo sauce. If you cannot get tomatillos, green tomatoes are a good substitute, though not quite the same.
Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 4 boneless pork chops, fat trimmed and reserved
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper, or to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder, or to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
- 1 lime, juiced
- For the sauce
- 10 tomatillos, husked and cut in half
- 1 tomato, quartered
- 2 jalapenos or green chillies, seeded and halved
- chilli flakes to taste
- 1 clove garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
Directions
Preparation:15min ›
Cook:30min ›
Ready in:45min
- Slice pork chops into strips and season with pepper, garlic powder and salt. Squeeze lime juice over meat strips.
- Heat a frying pan over medium heat. Add reserved fat and cook, stirring, until pan is coated. Remove fat and put the seasoned meat in the pan. Fry until browned, about 5 minutes.
- At the same time, make the sauce. Combine the tomatillos, tomato, jalapenos and chilli flakes in a saucepan. Bring to the boil and cook until soft. Drain excess liquid and transfer to a blender or food processor along with the garlic and salt. Blend until smooth.
- Pour sauce over the meat in the pan and simmer for 15 minutes to blend all of the flavours. Taste and adjust salt and pepper if necessary.
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Something else. I have been using a recipe almost identical to this one for 25 years ! I put a pork roast into my crock pot and add the sauce( without cooking first) and cook on low until the roast is tender but not falling apart. Add some coriander-cook 15 min. more. Serve as a burrito filling, etc. Also excellent with scrambled eggs! I use fewer chillis, but I'm a wimp! First class recipe. - 29 Sep 2008
Something else. Pretty good. A little sweet for my tastes. Instead of cooking it in 2 separate pans, I cooked the pork in a cast iron frypan, removed it when done, and added the ingredients for the sauce to the frypan. - 29 Sep 2008
Used different ingredients. Fast and easy, a delicious meal. I added one large green capsicum, in slices, to the pan to simmer with the meat and sauce and it came out great! - 29 Sep 2008