This is a colourful summer dish where all the constituent parts can be made well in advance and assembled at the last minute. Serves 6 Ingredients: 1lb pork fillet 2 tbsp sweet chilli sauce 2 tbsp vinaigrette 1 large Spanish onion pinches of basil and oregano salt and pepper 2oz soft while breadcrumbs
Tapenade: 1 jar pitted green olives 4ozs pinenuts 4 cloves garlic extra virgin olive oil 2 each red, green and yellow peppers
Plus: 1 jar green pitted olives 1 jar black pitted olives one packet of fresh papardelle jar or tin of filleted anchovies
Trim pork and cut into thin strips and season. Mix the sweet chilli sauce and vinaigrette and marinate the pork strips for an hour. Cook the pasta according to the instructions, cool and keep covered in water. For the tapenade, blend one jar of green olives, pinenuts and garlic to a paste, adding a little olive oil to ease if necessary. Keep in a bowl. Halve and de-seed the peppers, season and roast in hot oven for 15 minutes. When cool, cut each pepper into four strips and add the remaining green and black olives. Keep to one side. Roughly chop the onion and sweat with basil, oregano and seasoning without allowing to colour. Add and fold in breadcrumbs and cook for 2-3 minutes. Mix together the onion, tapenade mixture, peppers and olives. To assemble: Drain and toss the marinated pork strips in butter and deglaze the pan with a drop of white wine. Add the pepper and tapenade mix and cook until the pork is cooked and the whole mixture has heated through (3-4 minutes). At the very last minute, carefully add the anchovies, ensuring they do not disintegrate. Re-heat the pasta by tossing in butter with a little salt and pepper and put into individual pasta dishes. Spoon the pork mixture into the centre and serve. Optional extra: top with shaved fresh Parmesan. |