The Anonymous Widower

Grilled Pork With Asparagus And Shiitake Mushrooms

This recipe was taken from Saturday’s Times and I cooked it for lunch for myself today.

The paper says that for four people you need the following.

4 French trimmed pork cutlets
Knob of unsalted butter
2 crushed cloves of garlic
20 shiitake mushrooms, stalks removed
20 spears of asparagus, cleaned and trimmed
Seasoning
1 hard  cheese, I used a French sheep’s one.
Lemon juice and olive oil

I did half quantity and just used pork steaks, as my Waitrose isn’t a posh one, that does French-trimmed pork cutlets. Here’s the pork, mushrooms and asparagus, ready to cook.

Pork, Mushrooms and Asparagus

The asparagus was of course English. I just snapped the ends off.

I cooked the pork in my chargrill pan for a few minutes each side.

Cooking The Pork

After they were cooked I put them in the top oven to keep warm.

I then melted a good knob of butter in my frying pan and when it was very hot, put the garlic and the mushrooms in and cooked them for nearly a minute.  I then added the asparagus and gave it another minute.

Cooking The Mushrooms And Asparagus

I then arranged it over the meat, with a few potatoes and scrapings of the cheese and some lemon juice.

Ready to Eat

I did find the two steaks I cooked rather a lot for me, so one will be tomorrow’s lunch. but it was a pleasant change to have the mushrooms and asparagus with pork.

May 12, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | Food | Coeliac/Gluten-Free, Pork, Recipe