Carbonnade of pork with mushrooms
Ingredients
- 900g/2lb pork fillet
- 1-2 tbsp olive or sunflower oil
- 110g/4oz onion finely chopped
- 60ml/2 ½ fl oz dry white wine
- 150ml/¼ pint chicken stock (preferably homemade)
- 225g/8oz mushrooms sliced
- 300ml/½ pint sour cream or light cream
- fresh lemon juice
- salt and freshly ground pepper
- 2 tbsp freshly chopped flatleaf parsley
For the roux
Garnish
- 6-8 croutons made with white bread pan fried in clarified butter or olive oil
Method
Cut the pork into slices about 7mm/¾ in thick.
Pour a little oil into a very hot frying pan, sauté the pork pieces, until brown on both sides. Remove to a plate a keep warm.
Add a little more butter to the pan and cook onions gently until soft and golden.
Deglaze the pan with wine and bring to the boil, add the stock and boil again to reduce by a quarter.
Meanwhile sauté the mushrooms in batches with a little butter and oil and add to the pork.
Add the cream to the sauce, bring back to the boil and thicken with a little roux.
Add the cooked pork and mushrooms to the sauce and all the juices.
Add a little lemon juice and simmer gently for a couple of minutes. Dip the tip of the croutons in the sauce then into the chopped parsley, add the remainder of the parsley to the sauce.
Pour into hot serving dishes and garnish with crisp croutons.
