Balsamic pork with watercress

Balsamic pork with watercress

Impress your family with this light and tasty pork dish

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 12 mins

Method

  1. Grate the zest from 1 orange, then segment the flesh (see Here to help, p23). Juice the other orange. Mix the zest with half the juice, vinegar, honey and garlic, then set aside. For the dressing, whisk the remaining juice with the mustard, 1 tbsp oil and seasoning.
  2. Heat the remaining oil in a frying pan, add the pork, then brown on each side, about 5 mins in total. Add the balsamic mixture, season, then bring to the boil. Bubble for 5-6 mins, turning the pork, until tender.
  3. Meanwhile, tip the watercress into a bowl, toss with the avocado, orange segments and dressing, then serve alongside the pork.

Per serving

261 kcalories, protein 19g, carbohydrate 9g, fat 17 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 2g, sugar 8g, salt 0.24 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, August 2008.

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  • 13 August 2008

    Nennepus rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This was delicious! I skipped the water cress salad, as water cress is not readily available here in Norway - I served it with sugar snaps halved lengthways and steamed for at couple of minutes on top of the porc.... worked very well!

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  • 25 August 2008

    Nicky commented on this recipe

    Delicious and so easy to make. The salad dressing also great so use with other dishes outside of this recipe. Will definitel be making this one again

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  • 25 August 2008

    Steph commented on this recipe

    We loved the sauce and the dressing complemented the watercress perfectly.

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  • 29 August 2008

    kcikingkatie rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Such a tasty and fast little meal, had most of the ingredients on hand as well. Served with oven roasted chips, this will be definitely become a regular meal in my kitchen.

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  • 31 August 2008

    soupy rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    What a delicious and easy recipe! The only difficult part was opening the jar of honey! I used diced pork as that was what I had bought and as we were having cauliflower not salad, I put the mustard into the cooking sauce. I also used 2 cloves of garlic. So, a bit of a variation on the basic recipe.

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    18 September 2008

    di commented on this recipe

    Lovely sauce and the pork was tender, served it with sugar snap peas and roasted cubed potatoes.....very tasty and enjoyed by all!

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  • 13 October 2008

    Erin rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Made this over the weekend, my husband absolutely loved it! Had to add extra orange juice though to make it a little saucier. Couldn't get hold of avos, but the salad was divine anyway. Served it with the garlicky mashed potato bake as suggested, and that was scrummy too! Will definitely do both again :)

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  • 13 January 2009

    Recipes commented on this recipe

    I thought this was really tasty even without any orange zest. It was lovely and saucy. I served it with wilted fresh spinch as I couldn't get any watercress.

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  • 14 October 2009

    Karen Falzon rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    My patner can be funny about pork and will only usually eats it if it has some kind of sauce, marinade etc, so it was great to find aother sauce to use. Really lovely flavour, I've also used it with chicken. I serve it with fluffy mash and mange tout

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  • Binder photo Sam

    25 August 2010

    Sam rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Gorgeous. Will use the orangey salad dressing often on a variety of salads.

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  • 08 March 2011

    saltycdog rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Yummy. Used pork shoulder steaks. Extremely fresh, fab for summer.

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  • 15 August 2011

    Nix143 commented on this recipe

    I keep buying pork loin steak as it's part of the 3 for a tenner deal at the supermarket - and it isn't the best meat in the world. This recipe did give some flavour to what can be a dry and flavourless piece of meat but it didn't blow me away. It was nice but not amazing. However this probably has more to do with the quality of meat I'm using. Will continue looking for 'the' pork recipe - or stop buying the loin steaks!

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  • 11 January 2012

    Tweet rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Deeelicious!!!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Cook time

Cook 12 mins

Counts as 1 of 5-a-day

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Per serving

261 kcalories, protein 19g, carbohydrate 9g, fat 17 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 2g, sugar 8g, salt 0.24 g

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