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CARAMELISED CHOPS WITH SOUR CHERRY SAUCE


Ingredients
2 servings
4 small pork chops
4 tbsp balsamic vinegar
¼ cup olive oil
4 tbsp honey
2 chili peppers
5 baby or 2 medium potatoes
2-3 cherry tomatoes
1 small cucumber
100 gr. dried sour cherries
1 orange (only the juice)
Salt
Pepper
¼ tsp red hot paprika
Dried oregano
Garlic powder
50 g. pumpkin
1 onion
100 ml. red wine

Process

Put the chops in a bowl with the chili peppers, the onion cut into rings and the herbs to marinate for some hours.
Wash and scrub the potatoes, leaving the skins on. Cut the pumpkin and the potatoes into small cubes. Boil the potatoes and the pumpkin cubes in salted water until soften. In a frying pan heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the pumpkin and the potatoes. Add oregano. Remove from heat and keep them warm.
Add oil to cover the bottom of the frying pan and whet it heats put the chops in. Don't forget to cover with the lid to prevent chops from losing their fluids. Add the orange juice, the balsamic vinegar, the honey, the sour cherries and the wine. Pepper. When the chops are caramelized serve them. Strain the fluids of the pan in a small bowl and add some some cour cherries (optionally). 
Cut the cucumber and the cherry tomatoes.
Serve in a plate as it is seen in the picture above.

PASTA! PASTA! PASTA!


Hello! Happy November! There are many recipes that I want to post today so I will start immediately with one of my favourites recipe! Pappardelle with chicken breast, mushrooms and pumpkin! The sweet flavour of pumkin and the chicken combine perfectly at this recipe! 

Ingredients
2 servings
120 gr. pappardelle or other broad pasta
5  basil leaves 
3 cherry tomatoes
60 grams. pumpkin flesh
150 grams. chicken breast
100 ml. light cream
4 tbsps. butter
1 green pepper
1 tsp salt
A pinch of grated nutmeg
A pinch of pepper
70 gr. sliced ​​mushrooms
1 spring onion
Garlic powder

Process

Add pasta in salted boiling water. Pasta is correctly cooked when it is  al dente. Before you drain the pasta in a collander, keep 1/4 cup water that you use it later. Drain the pasta and leave aside. Next slice the chicken breast and chop the pumpkin into small cubes. In a pan add the butter over high heat. When heated, add the chicken and the pumpkin. After ten minutes, add the mushrooms and cook for another 5 minutes. Pour the water that you have kept when you cooked the pasta and the light cream in the pan. Salt and pepper. Add the garlic and the nutmeg. When the sauce starts to boil, add the chopped onion and the chopped pepper. Let them cook for 10 minutes. In the meantime halve the cherry tomatoes and add them to the pasta. Serve the pasta. Garnish with the basil leaves and add the chicken and pumkin sauce!  

Enjoy!