Pork and Bean Stew

Very little needed to cook this meal. But yet the flavours are big. I guarantee that all your family will love it. An affordable family meal. That you will cook over and over again. at first sight it won't look brilliant or the best meal ever, as it's not so colorful. You have to try it to prove me right.

Pork and Bean Stew

Ingredients

500g of pork fillet cut into cubes
1 onion
2 garlic cloves
4 sweet potatoes. ( around 350g)
2 tbsp of smoked paprika
1 bay leave
2 spring of rosemary
Olive oil
200 ml of white wine
800ml of vegetable stock
1 tin butter beans
1 tin haricot beans
Seasoning
1 tbsp plain flour

For the Salad

Ingredients

2 carrots
1/2 a red onion
1 gem lettuce
2 ripe vine tomatoes
1 tbsp of dijon mustard
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
Seasoning


Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time : 2 hours
Total Time: 2 hours 15 minutes
Serves : 4
Level : Easy

Method

The stew

Mix the pork with some oil , paprika and seasoning. Leave to infuse for 10 minutes. Heat some more oil in a pot. Brown the pork all over, and just before putting it aside, add the flour to the pork and stir all very well before you put in a bowl on the side. Add a little more oil to the pan , and fry the onion and garlic, while scraping all the flavours off the bottom left from the pork. Add the wine and aliitle more paprika, cook away all the alcohol. Add the drained beans,bayleave, rosemary springs and the pork back to the pan. Add the stock and the sweet potatoes. Stir, bring to a boil , cover and leave to cook really slowly for about two hours. At the end you should have a nice thick stew. Fish out the stalks of the rosemary and the bayleave before serving.

The Salad

Grate the carrots. Roughly chop the gem lettuceand the tomatoes finley chop the onion, and combine it all in a salad bowl. In a seperate bowl add the mustard and the red wine vinegar together, with some seasoning. Stir in with your salad well so eveything is well flavoured.

Serve the salad along side your stew with some bread to mop all the sauce off your bowl .