Photo: Lars Blankers
Braised Moorish-style pigs' cheeks with picada and garlic-cumin potatoes
22 ingredients
30 min
Serves 4-6
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This delicious slow-cooked pork dish with garlicky potatoes is both Moorish in style and moreish in nature.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
1521
Calories
97g
Protein
69g
Fat
122g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 19 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Beef | 100g cooked | 250 |
| Pork | 100g cooked | 242 |
| Chicken | 100g cooked | 165 |
| Potato | 1 medium (173g) baked | 161 |
| Chocolate | 1 oz (28g) semisweet | 155 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| White Bread | 1 slice (30g) white | 79 |
| Grape | 1/2 cup (76g) | 62 |
| Orange | 1 medium (131g) | 62 |
| Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Carrot | 1 medium (61g) | 25 |
| Wine | 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) | 25 |
| Cumin | 1 tsp ground (2.1g) | 8 |
| Almond | 1 almond (1.2g) | 7 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Garlic | 1 clove (3g) | 4 |
| Thyme | 1 tsp dried (1.4g) | 4 |
| Parsley | 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) | 1 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 1-2 tbsp olive oil
- 750g/1lb 10oz pigs' cheeks, preferably Ibérico pork or Gloucestershire Old Spot, trimmed of fat and sinew
- 1 onion
- 1 carrot
- 4 garlic
- ½ tsp cumin
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 2 tsp raisins
- 200ml/7fl oz oloroso sherry
- 750ml/1¼ pints good-quality beef or dark- chicken stock
- 25g/1oz bitter chocolate
- 700g/1lb 8oz waxy potatoes
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 3 garlic
- 1 tsp crushed cumin
- 125g/4½oz softened unsalted butter
- 1 slice crusty white bread
- 70g/2½oz blanched almonds
- 1 tsp fresh thyme
- ½ tsp grated orange
- small handful fresh flatleaf parsley
- and freshly ground sea saltblack pepper
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By bbcfood ·
Recipe sourced from
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