Main Meals

Peanut-crusted pork fillet

4
Easy
15 minutes, plus 30 minutes’ chilling time
20 minutes

Make this peanut-crusted pork fillet even better by serving it with sticky rice for a more substantial dinner. Save the leftovers and use to make pork sandwiches with the hot mustard mayo and Woolworths’ Crunchita lettuce. Woolies’ Chinese BBQ sauce and truffle mayonnaise are also delicious with this.

Wine/Spirit Pairing
Woolworths Ken Forrester Grenache

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Ingredients

Method
  • 4 T flour
  • sea salt, to taste
  • freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • 1 pork fillet, roughly sliced
  • 2 free-range eggs, beaten
  • 200 g peanuts, finely crushed
  • 70 g breadcrumbs, toasted
  • canola oil, for deep frying
  • spring greens such as fennel, dill, green beans, mange tout, baby spinach, blanched
  • 2 T olive oil
  • 2 T lemon juice
  • For the hot mustard mayonnaise:

  • 1 free-range egg yolk
  • 2 T white wine vinegar
  • 3 T hot mustard (add more if you like it hotter)
  • 3/4 cup canola oil
  • salt, to taste
  • white pepper, to taste

1. Season the flour with salt and pepper. Toss the pork in the seasoned flour, then in the beaten egg.

2. Mix the peanuts and breadcrumbs and coat each piece of pork once. Chill for 30 minutes.

3. Heat the oil in a saucepan and deep-fry the pork until golden brown.

4. To make the mayonnaise, whisk together the egg yolk, vinegar and mustard until foamy. Gradually add the oil until the mayonnaise is completely emulsified. Season and chill until ready to serve.

5. Dress the greens with the olive oil and lemon juice and season to taste. Serve with the pork and mayonnaise.

Find more pork recipes here.

Photographs: Jan Ras
Food assistant: Marcelle De Wet

Bianca Strydom

Recipe by: Bianca Strydom

Prue Leith-trained chef Bianca Strydom cut her teeth working in some of the country's top fine dining restaurants – including former Eat Out number one restaurants The Restaurant at Waterkloof and La Colombe – before joining TASTE in 2018. Her favourite recipes to develop? Boujee breakfast recipes. Follow her on Instagram @biancast__.

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