
Portuguese Style Pork & Clams
Prep time 10 minutes Cook time 20 minutes
Serves 6 people
Recipe by Adrian Richardson.
Ingredients
- •500g pork fillet, sliced
Marinade
- •1 lemon, zest and juice
- •2 cloves garlic, minced
- •1 tablespoon red pepper paste
- •1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- •Salt & pepper
- •3 tablespoons duck fat
- •1 brown onion, diced
- •4 cloves garlic, crushed
- •5 bay leaves
- •2 potatoes, boiled with skin on
- •1 red chilli, sliced
- •3 tablespoons Kalamata olives
- •3 tablespoons pitted Sicilian olives
- •3 tomatoes, skin removed or ½ tin crushed tomatoes
- •1kg clams
- •1 tablespoon sherry vinegar
- •1 cup white wine
- •2 tablespoons port
- •1 bunch flat-leaf parsley
- •Spring onions, finely chopped
- •Lemon juice to serve
Method
- 1.Slice the pork into slices and coat in red pepper paste, garlic, smoked paprika and salt and pepper. If you have the time marinate for a few hours, or overnight
- 2.Pour the duck fat into a hot pan over medium-high heat, and fry potatoes, onions, garlic, bay leaves and chilli. Add the pork and seal on all sides
- 3.Add the olives, tomatoes, clams, sherry vinegar, white wine and port and cook with the lid on for 5 minutes. Add chopped parsley and spring onions and stir through. Serve with a squeeze of lemon.