Looking for delicious pork meat main courses? We have something to offer you, this recipe is able to melt the heart of the most fastidious. Pork in orange sauce is an incredible combination of flavors, aromatic citrus smell, honey aftertaste and, as a result, juicy, soft meat. Intriguing Then we’ll rather get acquainted with a new mouth-watering dish, suitable for both a festive table and a family dinner.
Cooked pork meat
For most, pork is just as common a menu item as chicken. Pork meat is quite soft, it cooks quickly, and moderately fat (of course, it all depends on the part of the carcass), goes well with most simple and affordable ingredients. The very structure of the meat is soft and juicy, it is unpretentious and does not require a couple of hours at the stove to cook, and the taste and smell are not too pronounced, so almost any dish with meat can be cooked from pork.
You must admit that the most optimal way to cook pork is stewing, when the juicy and soft meat is soaked in juices of additional products, becomes crushed and boiled, easily breaks into fibers and lags behind the bone.
Like chicken, this meat goes well with sweet and sweet and sour sauces. Even intense additives and prolonged languishing will not drown out the pleasant natural taste of pork, and a properly selected sauce will only emphasize or diversify it.
Pork in citrus sauce looks especially advantageous. The tastes of the components open well, complement each other.
Pork in Orange Sauce
The sauce for this recipe is based on aromatic, rich foods. The main emphasis here is on the fragrant, spicy orange peel and invigorating fresh sour juice. Its sweetness is balanced by honey and correctly opened with French mustard, garlic, a mixture of dried herbs and vegetable seasonings. Worcester sauce adds spicy pungency. Interesting, isn't it?
All this combination of pork and aromatic, spicy additives creates a truly magnificent dish - delicious pork in orange sauce.
Ingredients
To prepare juicy and saturated meat, you will need extremely simple and affordable products, such as:
- 600 g of pork;
- 1 orange
- 4-5 cloves of garlic;
- 40 ml Worcester sauce;
- 30 ml of vegetable oil;
- 1.5 tbsp. l flour;
- 1.5 tbsp. l honey;
- 1 tbsp. l French mustard
- 0.5 tsp provencal herbs;
- salt, pepper to taste.
Pork is cooked in orange sauce in a pan, so before cooking, prepare a deep cast-iron or other thick-bottom pan, wok or cauldron.
Meat cooking process
It is better to use chilled pork for a dish, frozen loses its structure during defrosting. Speaking about the part of the carcass, the neck or brisket is perfect for this recipe.
Rinse the meat thoroughly under running water. Dry with a kitchen towel or napkin. Remove the film from the meat, remove the fat deposits, if necessary, remove the bones.
Next, the meat must be cut. The pork recipe in orange sauce came to us from China, there the pork is often cut into large strips, but you can also in small pieces, 1 cm thick and matchbox wide.
Prepare a breading for pork, flour-based breading will affect the density of the sauce. In a separate bowl, mix the flour, add salt, pepper, as well as various dried herbs.
Heat the pan and season with vegetable oil. Roll the pieces of pork into breadcrumbs and put in a pan. Fry each bite on both sides to a golden soft crust.
While the meat is fried, peel a few cloves of garlic. Press each with a knife blade and cut into two or three parts. Throw them in the pan. Garlic is a universal supplement for any meat, it certainly does not hurt pork.
Orange sauce
While the meat is fried in a pan, you can do the preparation of the sauce. To get started, take an orange and grate its zest on a fine grater. Transfer it to a small container. Add honey there. If the honey was sugared - it's okay, you do not need to melt it, it will reach the desired consistency in the pan - the main thing is to thoroughly mix the ingredients together.
Squeeze all the juice into the same container as much as possible. Add Worcester sauce to the mass and mix thoroughly.
Sometimes a little fresh ginger is added to the orange sauce: it gives the dish a special, rich aroma and correctly reveals the taste and smell of the orange. Ginger goes well with citrus fruits and complements meat.
Pour the carefully mixed orange sauce into the pan. In consistency and color, it should resemble a thick sugar syrup. Stir the meat with the sauce. Add a little water, reduce the heat under the pan to a minimum. Cover the cooking dish.
How much to stew pork? Pork meat itself is cooked very quickly, however, so that the slices are saturated with a pleasant citrus aroma, simmer the pork over low heat for at least an hour, adding boiled water to the pan as necessary.
By the end of cooking, the sauce should remain flush with the meat. Remove the prepared pork from the heat and, having covered with a lid, let it brew for 5-7 minutes.
Innings
Pork in orange sauce is ready. Serve the prepared pieces of meat abundantly flavored them and garnish with sauce and French mustard, do not forget about a few feathers of fresh herbs and finely chopped green onions. As a side dish for pork cooked according to this recipe, boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes, stewed and fresh vegetables, baked carrots, green peas are excellent.