Blade Steak of Pork

Name: Blade Steak of Pork (Palette de porc ‘pauvre femme’)
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 20 min
Yield: For four people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: salt, freshly-ground pepper; a sprig of flat parsley; salt, freshly-ground pepper; a bouquet garni; 250 ml (scant half pint) milk; 100 g (3½ oz) butter; 1 potato, peeled and cut into rounds; 3 cloves of garlic; 800 g (1 lb 12 oz) onions, finely chopped; 900 g (2 lb) blade of pork on the bone

Palette de porc ‘pauvre femme’

Preparation info

For
four
people

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
2 hr 30

Appears in

The Nouvelle Cuisine of Jean and Pierre Troisgros

By Jean Troisgros and Pierre Troisgros

Published 1978

About

Ingredients

900 g (2 lb) blade of pork on the bone
3 cloves of garlic

Europe
France
Stew
Gluten-free

Method

Choose a piece of pork with the palest pink flesh. Peel the garlic, cut the cloves lengthwise in two and insert them into six small incisions made in the meat. Season with salt and pepper.
Melt 20 g (¾ oz) butter in a heavy casserole and brown the meat lightly on both sides for 15 minutes. At the same time, fry the onions in a frying-pan with the rest of the bu