Stuffed pork fillet wrapped in bacon

  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cooking Time: 15 –20 minutes
  • Servings: 2
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From Lyndey Milan’s Taste of Ireland – episode 4, County Fermanagh

This recipe is all about Pat Doherty’s black pigs and the pork and bacon they produce. They roam freely on an island in Lough Erne and the finished product is sold in his shop. I combined with with salad, freshly picked from Orchard Acre Farm.

Ingredients

  • 1 large (300g) pork fillet
  • 6 long, even rashers bacon
  • 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
  • 3 teaspoons (15g) butter
  • 8 fresh sage leaves

 

Stuffing

  • 1 tablespoon pine nuts, toasted
  • 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
  • 200-250g pork mince

 

Salad

  • 2 thick rashers bacon
  • 4 leaves curly lettuce
  • 4 leaves baby kale
  • 4 soft lettuce leaves, e.g. butter lettuce
  • 1 young beetroot, peeled and sliced
  • ½ cucumber, peeled and sliced
  • 2 yellow tomatoes, cut into small wedges
  • 1 sprig spearmint, leaves chopped
  • Nasturtiums, leaves and flowers
  • Snow pea shoots and flowers

 

Vinaigrette

  • ½ teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • ½ teaspoon brown sugar
  • ½ tablespoon (10ml) white wine vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons (40ml) extra virgin olive oil

Instructions

  1. For pork, mix stuffing ingredients and set aside. Cut a pocket in the pork fillet by slicing lengthways, leaving the last centimetre uncut. Cut a further pocket by slicing sideways from this cut, down the left and right side.
  2. Open fillet out and flatten with fingers. Place stuffing evenly down the length of the fillet. Roll pork to reform original shape. Wrap bacon rashers, one at a time around pork, overlapping the ends. If necessary, hold together with toothpicks. Heat a large frying pan over medium heat and add oil and two teaspoons butter. When the butter is foaming, add pork fillet and cook over medium heat, turning frequently until, brown on all sides. Reduce heat to very low and cover. Cook for 10 – 15 minutes or until firm to the touch and cooked through. Remove to a warm place, cover with foil and rest for 5-10 minutes.
  3. For vinaigrette, whisk together all ingredients except oil in salad bowl. When well combined, drizzle in oil while still whisking. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary.
  4. For salad, cut extra bacon into small strips to make lardons and dry fry in preheated small frying pan over medium heat until brown and crisp. Remove and drain on paper towel. Build salad on top of vinaigrette placing leaves first, then beetroot, cucumber, tomatoes, spearmint and finally lardons and flowers. Toss just prior to serving.
  5. To serve, melt remaining one teaspoon butter in a small frying pan and when foaming add sage leaves. Turn and when crisp drain on paper towel. Slice pork, dot with sage leaves and serve with salad.

Notes

Lyndey’s Note: Beetroot leaves can also be added to the salad.

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