Pork
- the mainstay meat of Poland.

Breaded Pork Steaks     Tenderloin in Mushroom Sauce     Venetian Pork

Kotlety Wieprzowe (4)
- like my mother used to make!  This recipe is extremely simple, but the association between the breaded pork and the nice garlickiness makes it special.  I like these steaks (don't use chops with bone still in) with potatoes and peas.

4 pork steaks, total about 500g or as big as you'd like to eat
2 cloves garlic
2 eggs
5 tbsp flour
5 tbsp breadcrumbs
salt
pepper
butter for frying

          Beat the eggs in a large shallow bowl with a good pinch of salt and pepper.  Put the flour and breadcrumbs on two separate large plates.  Mash the garlic in a press, or by chopping and then crushing with a large knife.  Rub the garlic well into each steak, then promptly coat each one with flour and allow to rest while you heat up a large frying pan.  Make sure the steaks are well-coated, and then cover each one in the beaten egg.  Finally coat the steaks with breadcrumbs and fry in a generous quantity of butter until golden.
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Sznycel Wieprzowy w Sosie Grzybowym (2)
- this thing of not overcooking meat has gone too far, in my opinion.  Every week on some TV cooking programme Chef berates Loser for keeping the pork in the oven or in the pan too long, when all they've done is colour its surface.  If the thing were alive it'd probably survive the cooking process.  For this recipe, I suggest that fellow lovers of well-done-to-ashes meats just do what comes naturally and give the tenderloin a good, long fry if that's what they like.  The meat can even be a little dry, and the intensity of the sauce will carry the whole thing off.  Mushroom sauce is a very Polish thing, so try to get hold of a mushroom stock cube if you possibly can.

tbsp butter
400 g pork tenderloin, butterflied or cut into steaks
2 small cloves garlic
small onion
tsp olive oil
250 g mushrooms
75 ml white wine
vegetable or mushroom stock cube
2 tbsp cream
salt

          Pan or skillet fry the pork in the butter to taste, and keep warm.  Meanwhile chop the onion and garlic finely and fry in the oil until softening.  Chop mushrooms finely, add to pan and fry until they begin to sweat.  Add stock cube and wine, and reduce well over a medium heat.  Add cream and reduce further if desired.  Season with pepper - it's unlikely to need much salt - and serve the pork on top of the sauce if the meat looks pretty and golden.  Good with small roast potatoes and steamed broccoli florets.
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Venetian Pork (6)
- quite classy for a simple pasta & sauce combination, but you have to like peppers.

4 tsp oil
2 tbsp butter
1000 g fillet pork
2 large onions
2 large bell peppers, red and green
2 large tomatoes
1 clove garlic
250 ml red wine
1 beef stock cube
1 tsp grated lemon zest
1 tbsp tomato puree concentrate
150 g button mushrooms
1 tbsp flour
salt
pepper
400 g taliatelle verdi

          Chop onions very finely and colour in the fats with the diced pork.  Next add, sequentially, peppers cut into strips, chopped garlic, chopped tomatoes, and about half of the wine.  Cook gently until the pork is becoming tender, gradually adding most of the remaining wine, stock and, towards the end, the mushrooms.  Meanwhile start to prepare the water for the pasta.  When the pork is almost ready, stir the remaining ingredients into the last of the wine and stir into the sauce, cooking it until it thickens slightly.  Let stand while the tagliatelle cooks.  Season the sauce and serve with the pasta.

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