Pork kofta with apple molasses

Name: Pork kofta with apple molasses
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 l apple juice; 50 ml cider vinegar; 2 onions, finely diced; 500 g pork mince; 50 g treacle; sunflower oil; ½ tsp mustard powder; ½ tsp garlic powder; 20 g white sesame seeds; 1 tbsp salt; 200 g minced pork fat (or fatty pork belly); 200 g minced pork fat (or fatty pork belly); ½ tsp cracked black pepper; ½ tsp ground cumin; 40 g peanuts, toasted and cut in halves; 1 Granny Smith apple, grated; 1 tbsp cold-pressed rapeseed oil; ½ hispi or sweetheart cabbage, cored and thinly sliced; 100 g sugar snaps, thinly sliced; 2 spring onions, thinly sliced; ½ hispi or sweetheart cabbage, cored and thinly sliced

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Changing Tides

By Roberta Hall McCarron

Published 2024

About

You need a bit of fat to make these kofta properly juicy, so if you’re unable to get pork fat, a fatty piece of pork belly will work well too. The apple juice takes time to get to the right consistency, but it’s worth it to get lovely, sweet, sticky molasses.

Ingredients

Apple Molasses

1 l apple juice
50 ml cider vinegar
50

Starter
Summer
Gluten-free

Method

To make the apple molasses, pour the apple juice into a large, heavy-bottomed pot and add the apple vinegar and treacle. Boil over a medium-high heat for 45 minutes to an hour, until it has reduced down to about 150 to 200ml and has a syrupy consistency. Turn the heat down a little as it reduces, and watch it closely as you get to the end of the cooking time so it doesn’t burn.

To make