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Coconut and garlic pork chops with roasted carrots and seed brittle
Tender pork chops with coconut and garlic, sweet roasted carrots and crunchy seed brittle make a midweek dinner the whole family will love.
Ingredients
Coconut and garlic pork chops:
- 4 pork chops
- 30 ml olive oil
- 5 ml salt
- 10 ml black pepper
- 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
- 250 ml coconut cream
Sweet roasted carrots:
- 500 g carrots, thinly sliced lengthways
- 60 ml olive oil
- 15 ml paprika
- 5 ml black pepper
- 10 ml ginger powder
- 80 ml castor sugar
- small bunch fresh thyme
- 30 ml butter
Couscous:
- 500 ml couscous
- 5 ml coarse salt
- 15 ml olive oil
- 1 L boiling water
- 500 ml double thick Greek yoghurt
Seed brittle:
- 125 m glucose
- 45 ml brown sugar
- 250 ml white sugar
- 125 ml water
- 10 ml vanilla
- 15 ml butter
- 5 ml bicarbonate of soda
- 60 ml pumpkin seed
- 60 ml poppy seed
- 60 ml sunflower seed
- 15 ml coarse salt
Method
Pork chops:
- Drizzle and rub the pork chops with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Heat a large frying pan over a high heat.
- Place the pork chops and garlic into the frying pan and cook for 8 minutes on each side.
- Add the coconut cream and reduce the heat of the pan.
- Cover with a lid and simmer for 5 minutes.
Seed brittle:
- Place a sheet of baking paper onto a cold working surface and spread the
- In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar, glucose and water over a medium heat.
- Stir constantly until sugar dissolves and the mixture starts to boil.
- Increase the heat to high and cook without stirring until the mixture is amber in colour.
- Add the vanilla, bicarb and butter, stir well to incorporate everything.
- Pour the mixture over the seeds and spread with a spatula.
- Season with salt and set aside for two or three minutes to cool and harden.
Sweet roasted carrots:
- Preheat the oven to 190°C.
- In a mixing bowl combine the olive oil, paprika, pepper, ginger, caster sugar, thyme and butter and set aside.
- Place the carrots on a baking tray lined with baking paper and brush with sugar mixture.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 10 – 15 minutes.
Couscous:
- In a large mixing bowl add couscous, salt and olive oil and mix well.
- Add boiling water and cover with glad wrap.
- Set the couscous aside and allow to steam and absorb the water.
To serve: Pour the pan juices over the quinoa. Top the quinoa with the onions, cucumber and mint (season with salt and pepper). Serve with pork loin steaks.



