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Pork belly slow cooked in apple, fennel and white wine

~ Eloise Emmett ~ 3 Comments

Pork belly has the most amazing flavour, it is fatty, I find trimming the top layer off helps take away the strong fatty flavours but it needs some fat left for slow cooking so it doesn’t end up dry.

800 grams pork belly
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
1 bulb fennel (if available) or 1 teaspoon ground fennel seed
2 sprigs thyme
2 apples
1 cup white wine
1 cup beef or vegetable stock
1 bay leaf
salt and pepper

Peel and slice the onion, crush the garlic, chop the apple and slice the fennel bulb and spread them over the bottom of the slow cooker with the thyme, fennel seed, wine, stock and bayleaf and a pinch of salt and pepper. Remove the skin and the top layer of fat from the pork belly, you can salt and bake the skin in a hot oven to make crackle if you want. Put the pork meat in slow cooker and cook for about four hours or until it falls apart.

When the pork is cooked, to make a sauce form the apples and juices left once the pork has been removed from the slow cooker, remove as much fat as possible from the apple and juices(put the whole lot in the refrigerator and remove the set fat if you have time) and thicken with 1 tablespoon of flour and add 1 cup of stock and simmer for about 6 minutes or until the flour is cooked and puree and season with salt and pepper.

To make the sauce in the thermomix add the onions, apples and juices from the slow cooker to the mixing bowl with 1 tablespoon of flour and 1 cup of stock and cook 10 minutes/100/speed 1 and then puree 1 minute/speed 10

Serve with seasonal vegetables, I have served it with a carrot, pumpkin and sweet potato puree here, cooked in the thermomix basket and then pureed with a little butter and salt and pepper.

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Mayonnaise, Aioli, seafood sauce, tartare sauce, dill mayo & Honey mustard mayo

~ Eloise Emmett ~ 1 Comment

The only bad thing about making your own mayonnaise is wanting to eat it with everything it tastes so good!

Basic mayo
1 egg
½ tsp Dijon mustard
tablespoon white vinegar
pinch salt
pinch pepper
200 ml (approx.) Extra Virgin Olive oil

Traditionally we just just the yolk to use mayo but then what do we do with the whites? for home cooking I just use the whole egg and it works out fine! Whisk the eggs, mustard and vinegar together and while still whisking fast pour the oil in a slow drizzle until all combined and thick season with the salt and pepper. Or use a food processor or blender

In the thermomix put the egg, mustard, salt and pepper and vinegar in the bowl blend speed 4 slowly pour the oil in in a slow drizzle until thick, can pour onto the lid with the mc on and wiggle the mc up a little to make the slow stream.

Tartare add one tablespoon of each chopped gherkins, capers and lemon juice to mayo

Aioli add 2 blended cloves of garlic to the eggs and vinegar before starting, or whole garlic cloves in the thermomix at the start with the eggs

Caper balsamic substitute the white vinegar with balsamic vinegar and add 2 tablespoons of chopped cappers

Dill mayonnaise add 2 tablespoons of dill to the mayonnaise

Seafood sauce add 1 tablespoon tomato sauce, ¼ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce and a few drops to your liking of tobasco sauce to the mayonnaise

Honey mustard mayonnaise (awesome with salmon or chicken!!) Add 2 tablespoons honey and an extra teaspoon of Dijon to the eggs and vinegar before adding the oil

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Like this recipe? Find more in my first cookbook The Real Food for Kids Cookbook. When you cook this please let me know how you go with it and share it with your friends!