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Achiote pork chops with recado rojo and salsa crudo


Achiote pork chops with recado rojo and salsa crudo

Pork chops with classic chilli & coriander marinade served with a raw salsa

Serves 6

Ingredients

pork chops

  • 6 pork chops
  • limes
  • Recado rojo
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons achiote seeds
  • ½ teaspoon dried oregano
  • 2 cloves
  • 1-2 cm piece of cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon coriander seed
  • ½ teaspoon black pepper

salsa crudo

  • 4 ripe tomatoes blanched, peeled, deseeded and diced
  • 1 small clove garlic chopped
  • 1 haberno chilli chopped
  • 1 small red onion finely chopped
  • 1 small bunch of coriander chopped
  • ½ small bunch mint chopped
  • Zest of 1 orange, reduced to 1tbsp
  • 1/2 lime
  • 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
  • ½ cup olive oil

Method

pork chops

  1. In a pestle & mortor pound the above ingredient to make the Recado rojo, rub this over the pork chops & allow to marinade for one hour.
  2. Grill the pork chops for 3 - 4 minutes each side depending on the thickness, remove form the grill & allow to rest for another 3 – 4 minutes.
  3. Serve with the salsa crudo, coriander & ½ limes

salsa crudo

  1. Combine all the above ingredients to make the salsa crudo & let sit for the flavours to infuse.
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  • Alex Anton
    April 2011

    This seems like a complicated recipe. Although it starts with pork, it takes a bit of experience to handle these steps...but I think it is worth trying, as long as you use pans that don't have teflon. I always liked going after recipes, and cooking dishes and dishes, and I recently bought a teflon pan which found quite easy to clean and use. After some medical exams, and analisis, I found out that the problem was generated from a quite unexpected source! After researching some aspects, I found out that teflon contains a chemical called per-flouro-octanoid-acid also known as PFOA, which can cause cancer. If you over heat teflon coated pans, to 260 degrees Celsius, you get the risk of releasing that chemical...and this is a risk not worth taking. So although teflon coated pans are easier to use, they imply high risks on our health...so it is advised that they be used properly. So I want to warn you all, that no matter the dish, even indian dishes such as fish curry, garlic prawn curry, dahiwali chicken curry it is important to be very carefull when using teflon pans.

  • N
    February 2010

    Annatto seeds are available in asian and indian grocers or here http://www.gourmetshopper.com.au/shop/product.php?productid=80

  • Gorgeous
    January 2010

    I wish they would explain what the unusual ingredients are and where a normal shopper can pick them up or suggest substitutes, maybe then we would cook the Recipe Dazza

  • JM27
    August 2009

    This recipe is a bit hard to understand. What is meant to be the Recado rojo? And what are the achiote seeds?

  • Peggy6
    July 2009

    where can we buy the annatto seeds (achiote)

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