We love this dish; it's the quickest route to an easy mid-week dish that's minimum effort with maximum results. Plus, ingredients are locally sourced where possible. Adding blue cheese to pork isn't something you might have thought of either, but take it from us, it's seriously good.
It serves four, with only 20 minutes prep time and just 30 minutes cooking time. We love the speediness on the preparation front if you're hard-pressed for time. It would make a great dish to impress come the weekend too.
Ingredients
- 4 Pork Loin Steaks
- 3 Fun-Size Pears
- 1 Mild Onion
- 2 Peppers (Any colour)
- 500g Potatoes
- 100g Tipperary Blue Cheese
- 1 teaspoon Dried Thyme
- Salt and Pepper
- Sunflower Oil
Quick method
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6.
- Cut the onion in half, discard the skin and slice thickly.
- In a large frying pan brown the pork steaks in a little oil.
- Transfer to a roasting tray.
- Quickly fry the onions in the same pan to brown them.
- Put the onions around the Pork Steaks, season with salt, black pepper and dried thyme.
- Cook in the oven for 15 mins.
- Meanwhile cut the pears into quarters and discard the pips.
- Add pears to the roasting dish and cook for another 10 mins.
- Peel sweet potatoes and cut into 2cm chunks.
- Cut the peppers into the same size and discard pith and seeds.
- Sauté them in a little oil in the pan for 10mins until brown and cooked through.
- Crumble the Tipperary Blue Cheese over the pork steaks in the roasting dish and pop into the oven for 5mins to melt.
- Serve the sweet potato sauté alongside the baked pork steaks.
This recipe is brought to you by Aldi. All Aldi’s fresh meat is 100% Irish, and from Bord Bia approved farms. For more great Spring recipes click here.
