Pork is a meat ideal for roasting. It is simply impossible to spoil it, the dish will turn out soft and tasty anyway. To give it more juiciness and give additional flavoring nuances, bake pork with cheese and tomatoes, complement this set with spices and herbs.
Pork: cooking features
To make your baked meats especially tasty, choose the right piece of pork: fillet from the backbone, escalope, loin, rib chops or leg chops. Preferably light, not too fatty meat. It is well absorbed and does not have a high calorie content.
Tender, slightly bland pork needs to be accompanied by brighter ingredients. Tomatoes are perfectly combined with it, giving the meat a pleasant sourness. It is better to exclude too harsh spices, giving preference to parsley, basil, black pepper.
Pork schnitzels
You will need:
- 2 pork schnitzels;
- 1 small onion;
- 3 tomatoes;
- 400 g of boiled mushrooms;
- 0.5 teaspoons of dried basil;
- olive oil for frying;
- salt;
- freshly ground black pepper.
Peel and chop the onion. Rinse the schnitzels, pat dry with a paper towel and rub with a mixture of onions, salt, freshly ground pepper and dried basil. Fry the meat in a not too hot skillet, then transfer it to a plate and place in a warm place.
Scald the tomatoes with boiling water, remove the skin. Finely chop one and a half tomatoes and simmer with a little oil in a frying pan where the schnitzels were fried. Add salt and pepper. Cut the remaining tomatoes into slices and also lightly fry. Chop the mushrooms into thin slices and fry in a separate pan.
Pour the stewed tomato sauce into a mold, put the schnitzels on top. Cover each with plastic cheese and place in oven preheated to 180 ° C. When the cheese is melted, transfer the pork to warmed plates on top of the sauteed tomatoes. Place mushrooms nearby.
Chop with tomatoes and cheese
You will need:
- 2 pieces of pork loin (300-350 g each);
- 50 g of semi-hard cheese;
- 1 large tomato;
- 1 onion;
- olive oil;
- salt and ground black pepper.
Beat the loin pieces, sprinkle with salt and freshly ground pepper. Heat olive oil in a skillet and fry the meat in it until golden brown. Cut the cheese into slices, the tomatoes into thin slices. Chop the onion into rings.
Transfer the pork to a greased pan. Place onion rings on top of each slice, cover them with tomato slices and cheese plastics. Place the mold in an oven preheated to 180 ° C. Cook until cheese is melted. Serve with chilled white wine and fresh cereal bread.
