Fillet Of Pork With Mussels Lomo De Porco Com Amêijoas Recipes

FILLET OF PORK WITH MUSSELS (LOMO DE PORCO COM AMêIJOAS)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven at 220°C (425°F).
• Brush pork with salt, pepper and the minced garlic. Heat the lard and add the pork fillet and cook for 40 minutes.
• Wash the mussels well. Heat olive oil in a large pot and sauté the onions until golden. Add the tomatoes and pepper, stirring well and cooking until the tomatoes are well cooked and soft.
• Add the wine to the tomato mixture and and simmer for a further 10 minutes.
• Add the mussels and cook for another 10 minutes, covered.
• Once the mussels are open taken them out and remove them from the shells, reserving the sauce in which they were cooked. Add flour to the sauce and stir on low heat to thicken. Add parsley and basil and extra salt to taste.
• Take cooked fillet and cut into slices, top the slices with mussels and sauce and cook in the oven at 240°C (475°F) for a further 10 minutes.
• Delicious served hot with bread.

PORK WITH CLAMS (LOMBO DE PORCO COM AMEIJOAS)

Steps:

• Blitz the peppers with the garlic and salt, pour the oil in slowly and continue blending till all is a smooth paste.
• Put pork in a non metallic bowl. Mix the garlic into the red pepper paste and add the wine,and coriander stir well then pour over the pork.
• Marinate overnight in the fridge.
• Remove the pork from the sauce with a slotted spoon, set the sauce to one side.
• Heat the bacon fat in a pot and fry the pork till browned all over, remove pork from the pot.
• Cook the onion in the bacon fat till just soft, but, not browned.
• Return the pork to the pot, add the reserved marinade, and, bring to a simmer. Cover with a lid and cook gently for 1 hour.
• Add the clams, cover and cook for 10 minutes.
• Remove any clams that do not open.
• Serve with fries or fresh crusty bread.

PORK AND CLAMS (AMEIJOAS NA CATAPLANA)

Steps:

• Wash clams thoroughly under running water, and discard any that do not close when tapped, which means they are dead.
• Soak overnight in salt water, to expel sand.
• Heat olive oil in a (cataplanda) cast iron dutch oven.
• Fry onions and garlic until soft and golden.
• Add pork and brown on all sides.
• Add clams and dry white wine.
• Increase heat, and cook briskly, shaking pan until wine has reduced.
• Add tomatoes, coriander or parsley, cayenne pepper,salt, and black pepper.
• Cover tightly and simmer for 30-40 minutes or until pork is tender.
• Traditionaly the"Cataplana" (cast iron dutch oven) is brought to the table for serving.