Iberico pork loin, Mangalitsa smoked ham, white truffle parsnip purée, fennel pepper, miso hispi, elderberry jam, pickled wild garlic capers.
Description
Chef’s note:
This is a delicious recipe making the most of some of the best pork flavours around – Iberico and Mangalitsa. This is a really lovely dish for winter and is a great recipe to prepare ahead for when you have family and friends around.
Ingredients
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 180°C fan/400°F/gas mark 6.
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Toast the fennel seeds for two minutes in a pan on a high heat. Allow to cool and blend in a spice grinder with the pepper until you have a fine powder.
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Completely cover the pork loin with the fennel pepper, then wrap the ham around the loin. Wrap tightly in cling film, and place in the fridge to rest.
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Next, make the miso butter. Mix the miso with 250g of the butter, a dash of double cream and the poppyseeds. Pour everything into a blender and blend until all of the ingredients are combined. Place the butter on clingfilm and wrap it into a long, even log shape and refrigerate.
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Peel and chop parsnips into rounds. Put them in a saucepan and cover with some of the stock, add the sage, and boil until really soft, around 18 minutes. Once cooked, transfer to a blender with 300mls of double cream, the white truffle oil, three tablespoons of butter, and blend until creamy and smooth. Pass through a fine sieve and set aside.
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Cut hispi cabbage into crescent shapes and put into a baking tray. Add two tablespoons of the miso butter on to each crescent and place the pork next to it. Bake for 25 minutes.
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Remove the tray from the oven and let the pork rest while you warm through the parsnip purée.
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To plate up
Put a circle of the purée in the middle of each plate, then place a portion of the pork in the middle of the purée with the cabbage next to it. Sprinkle over the wild garlic caper berries and add a teaspoon of the elderberry jam. -
You can serve with a pork jus if you wish: simply reduce the pork stock and add some cream. If it is too thin, you can thicken with cornflour.