Main Meals

Baked pork chops with orange-olive paste

2-3
Easy
10 minutes
15 minutes
Wine/Spirit Pairing
Steenberg Merlot

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Ingredients

Method
  • 500 g pork chops, trimmed
  • Olive oil
  • 1 orange, juiced
  • Rocket, to garnish
  • Sautéed potatoes, for serving
  • Steamed broccoli, for serving
  • For the topping, pound together:

  • 70 g pitted green olives
  • 1 orange, zested
  • 2 T olive oil
  • 1 garlic clove, crushed
  • ½ t honey
  • Freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Method

Ingredients

1 Preheat the oven to 200°C.

2 Fry the chops fat side down until browned, then sear on both sides.

3 Place in an oiled baking pan and spread with the topping.

4 Spoon over the orange juice.

5 Bake for 8 minutes, or until just cooked and still moist.

6 Garnish with rocket and serve with the sautéed potatoes and broccoli.

Phillippa Cheifitz

Recipe by: Phillippa Cheifitz

Regular TASTE contributor Phillippa is a well-known South African author and food writer, and has won many awards, both for her magazine features and her cookbooks.

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Comments

  • default
    24 April 2015

    Great idea, Cavall.

    So far we’ve only rolled out phase 1 of our new look. We’ll definitely take this into consideration in the next phases of our relaunch.

    Thanks!

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    Cavall Barends
    8 April 2015

    please add a print option for recipes

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