… Hungarian Pepper Sauce & Rice
It’s Thursday night and before I have a meeting, I’m cooking a quick dinner. Not as quick as I’d like as it turned out. Tonight I’m cooking for my friends Jeff, Lori and Gavin.
This meal involves making a tomato sauce packed full of loads of veg (two peppers, one onion, one carrot, a whole fennel bulb and an apple). Loads of things to slice in the food processor and I have to use and empty it three times.
Once the veg is beginning to fry off, you then get on with making the rice and only then start to prepare and then cook the pork. With my hob issues I am not confident that I will cook this in the fifteen minutes. In fact I am confident that I will not cook it in the fifteen minutes.
The sauce is done and the rice is done in the fifteen minutes. The pork is not cooked. Although the recipe calls for the pork t be cooked on a high heat, for the first part of the cooking time I had to give over my hottest ring to the vegies to make sure they softened enough. It seems to take an age for the pork to cook though. And its over twenty minutes in the end making it one of my worst times.
This is a very lovely meal. The tomato sauce is particularly delicious. You add some rocket to the sauce at the last minute and it cooks a bit, with is a new one for me but very lovely. The bit of balsamic vinegar in the sauce cheats a bit of age into the taste.
A really tasty meal. Shame about the time. The cooker is really letting me down.
Who with: Jeff, Lori and Gavin
How Long: Twenty minutes and fifteen seconds
