Protein Swap | Jamaican Patty-Spiced Pork Sauté
with Zesty Chayote Salad
Cooking time
25 minutes
Servings
2/4
Calories
780 /serving
The pork patty is a Jamaican food icon, with its pastry shell and warmly spiced filling—a nod to Cornish pasties. Spill that meaty ground pork filling, browned with ginger and garlic and Caribbean seasonings, onto a bed of fluffy rice. Zhuzh the plates with a lime-zapped salad starring super-crisp chayote, a favourite veggie of the island (where it’s better known as chocho).
We will send you:
- 250g Canadian-raised lean ground pork
- 200g Nantes carrots
- 20g Ginger
- 2 Garlic cloves
- 1 Bunch of cilantro
- 1 Lime
- 1 Chayote
- 160g White rice
- 7g Honey
- 8.5g Mellow Yellow spices (sea salt, smoked paprika, cumin, garlic flakes, coriander, paprika, oregano, black peppercorns, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, turmeric)
Contains: Sulphites
You will need:
Peeler
Oil
Medium pot
Salt & pepper (S&P)
Large pan
Total Fat
34 g
Saturated Fat
7 g
Sodium
580 mg
Total Carb
91 g
Sugars
10 g
Protein
32 g
Fibre
8 g
Preparation
Cook the rice
In a medium pot, combine the rice, 1 ¼ cups water and a big pinch of salt (double the water and salt for 4 portions); bring to a boil. Reduce the heat, cover and simmer, 17 to 20 min., until the rice is tender and the water has been absorbed. Remove from the heat and let sit, covered, for 5 min. Fluff the rice.
Mise en place
Meanwhile, thinly slice the carrots crosswise on an angle. Halve, peel and thinly slice the chayote. Peel the ginger. Mince the garlic and ginger. Roughly chop the cilantro leaves and stems. Juice the lime.
Make the salad
In a medium bowl, combine the carrots, chayote, lime juice, honey, ½ the cilantro, 2 tbsp oil (double for 4 portions) and S&P.
Cook the pork
In a large pan, heat a drizzle of oil on medium-high. Add the ginger and garlic. Sauté, 30 sec. to 1 min., until fragrant. Add the pork*; season with the spices. Cook, breaking up the meat, 4 to 6 min., until cooked through. Add the remaining cilantro; stir well.
Plate your dish
Divide the rice between your plates. Top with the pork and salad. Bon appétit!
Adopt Richard
$5 from every puppet sold will go to Second Harvest, an organization that connects surplus food with charities.
*Health Canada recommends cooking ground pork to a minimum internal temperature of 71°C.
