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| Pork, leek & apple casserole in the slow cooker |
Everything has a perfect
combination and with pork it has to be leeks or apple or indeed an amalgamation of all of them. The best herb? Of course it's sage. So
gather together these ingredients, throw them in the slow cooker and
in a couple of hours you'll have a delicious and warming dinner with
minimum effort.
As ever this is one of my
family thrifty meals. I used diced pork shoulder which I found
reduced and here's the maths for the other ingredients. I haven't
included the sage as it's part of my stock cupboard ingredients and I
can't remember how much I paid for it. Also, life is too short to be
weighing out dried herbs.
Pork £1.29, carrots 9p (200g at 65p for
1.5kg, Sainsbury's), leeks 50p (2 out of a 4 pack at £1,
Sainsbury's), apple juice carton 28p (1 out of 6 for £1.69,
Sainsbury's), Oxo stock cube 4p (1 out of 24 for £1, Poundland),
apple 17p (1 out of 6 for £1, Sainsbury's). Total: £2.37 or 59p per
portion for 4.
With the above thrift notes
I will be putting this forward to this month's Credit
Crunch Munch which is a monthly challenge hosted by Camilla at
Fab Food
4 All and Helen at Fuss
Free Flavours.
Serves 4
Ingredients
Approximately 450g pork
shoulder, diced or 8 pork cheeks or 4 pork loin chops
4 Carrots, chopped
2 Leeks, chopped
200ml Apple juice or 1
individual carton
300ml Chicken stock
1 tsp Dried sage
Salt & pepper to taste
1 Apple (any will do –
whatever is lurking in your fruit bowl)
To serve: your choice
of potatoes or rice
Method
1. Pre-heat the slow cooker
to high while preparing the vegetables and measuring out the juice
and stock.
2. Add all the ingredients
except the apple to the slow cooker.
3. Cook on High for 4-6
hours or Low for 6-8 hours.
4. Before preparing the
potatoes or rice cut the apple into wedges and add to the mixture.
5. If you think the liquor
needs thickening add 1tbsp (15ml) cornflour to 1tbsp (15ml) water and
pour into the casserole.
6. Serve when the potatoes
or rice are ready.
This sounds like yummy comfort food and definitely a recipe I will be trying as I've only put beef in my slow cooker to date! Thank you for entering this fab meal into Credit Crunch Munch:-)
ReplyDeleteThat really sounds like an intriguing combination with the apple in it. As a kid I hated those soups with big chunck of leeks in them, but things have changed and I really appreciate some leeks.
ReplyDeleteWell done with that calculation to show the price per portion.