- 4 shallots
- 1 garlic clove
- 250g cherry vine tomatoes
- A handful of flat leaf parsley
- 400g tin of cannellini beans
- 2 pork escalopes
- 2 tbsp capers
- 1 lemon
- 50g peppery salad leaves
- 2 tsp + ½ tbsp olive oil
- Sea salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- 100ml boiling water
- Frying pan with lid
- Measuring jug
- Baking tray (optional)
- 1.
Peel and thinly slice the shallots. Peel and grate or crush the garlic. Halve the cherry vine tomatoes. Roughly chop the parsley. Drain and rinse the cannellini beans.
- 2.
Rub the pork escalopes with 1 tsp olive oil each and some salt and pepper. Warm a large frying pan on a medium-high heat for 1 min, then add the pork escalopes and cook for 4 mins each side, till golden. Lift the pork out of the pan onto a plate and cover to keep warm. Fill and boil your kettle.
- 3.
Turn the heat under the pan down to medium and pour in ½ tbsp olive oil. Add the shallots and fry for 5 mins, stirring, till softened. Add the garlic, tomatoes, 2 tbsp capers and the cannellini beans to the pan with half the parsley and a pinch of salt and pepper. Cook for 2 mins, stirring, then pour in 100ml hot water from the kettle and pop on a lid (or use a baking tray if you don't have a lid). Cook for 5 mins, stirring a couple of times, till the tomatoes have softened slightly.
- 4.
While the beans cook, finely grate the zest from the lemon and cut it into quarters. Squeeze a quarter of the lemon into a mixing bowl and add some salt and pepper. Place the salad leaves on top but don't mix them in just yet.
- 5.
When the beans have cooked for 5 mins, add the pork escalopes back to the pan, along with the lemon zest. Squeeze in the juice from another lemon quarter. Pop a lid on the pan and simmer for 2 mins.
- 6.
Toss the salad leaves with the lemon dressing. Divide the pork escalopes and tomato braised beans between a couple of warm plates. Garnish with the reserved parsley leaves, and serve with the salad and a lemon wedge each for squeezing.
- Tip
A pod-sitive outlook
The pod your capers are packed in is made of rPET, which gives recycled plastic a second life. Our pod pal, Nick, works with a company who turn these rPET pods into furniture. You can help Nick out by leaving the empty pod in your box for your driver to collect next week.