Pork and apple casserole from miniwedge

dairy free egg free nut free kids can help can make in advance ok to freeze slow cooker low fat
Category
Meat recipes
Slow cooker recipes
Serves4
Prep time 10 mins
Cook time1 hour 45 mins

Mumsnetter ratings

based on (3) reviews
Ease of finding ingredients 10
Ease of cooking9.5
Success with kids9
Success with adults9.5
Overall Mark 9

Ingredients

450g pork shoulder (diced)
1 cooking apple (chopped)
Handful of mushrooms (chopped)
1 onion (finely chopped)
1 large carrot (diced)
3 slices streaky bacon (chopped)
450ml chicken stock
200ml of cider (optional - but if not using, add another 200ml stock)
Salt and pepper to taste
Sage (1 or 2 fresh leaves chopped) or 1/2 tsp dried
1 tbsp of creme fraiche

Handy Hint

It's nice with either baked potatoes, or crusty bread, and lovely with rice. You can leave out the creme fraiche for dairy-free, you can leave out the cider if you want to use it for babies. (mine had it one they were eating lumpy food, you simply shred the pork for them.) This can also be done in the slow cooker - just brown the steaks first then bung everything in.

Method

1. Heat a frying pan and brown the pork steaks
2. Put the steaks in a casserole dish and lower the heat.
3. Add the bacon, onions and carrots, and cook until the onion is just starting to colour.
4. Add the mushrooms and apple, then cook for another minute.
5. Slowly pour in the cider (if using) and deglaze the pan, then tip all into the casserole dish and add the chicken stock
6. Season to taste - I like to throw in some sage as well.
7. Cover and cook on around 180C for about 90 minutes.
8. Take lid off, stir in creme fraiche, then put back in oven but turn the oven off and shut the door.
9. Serve with green vegetables.

Mumsnetter Reviews

From: dogrilla on Mon 05-Dec-11 20:18:33 Overall rating: 9.8
Bloody marvellous! Put some extra carrots in to bulk it up as didn't have any mushrooms in the house. It was delicious. Will def do again.
From: FessaEst on Sat 26-Nov-11 11:19:48 Overall rating: 9.2
Really yummy, pork was really tender. A hit with DD1 (2), served with sweet potato mash & beans. I had too much liquid so will use less stock next time.
From: miniwedge on Mon 29-Aug-11 10:55:06 Overall rating: 0.0



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