Pork Escalopes with Tomato Braised Beans
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Total: 35 mins
Succulent pan-fried organic pork escalopes are simmered in a bubbling braise of creamy cannellini beans, sweet shallots, cherry vine tomatoes and savoury capers. Served with a side of peppery leaves dressed with a zingy squeeze of lemon.
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398 kcal
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Ingredients you'll need
  • 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
From your kitchen
  • 2 tsp + ½ tbsp olive oil
  • Sea salt
  • Freshly ground pepper
  • 100ml boiling water
You'll need
  • Frying pan with lid
  • Measuring jug
  • Baking tray (optional)
Step by step this way
  • 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.

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