Name: Warm Pork Chop, Pumpkin, Tamarillo, Watercress, Sunflower and Pumpkin Seed Salad
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; bunch of watercress, thick stalks removed; 1 red onion, thinly sliced; 4 large pork chops, each around 200 g, on the bone; 2 apples, cored and the flesh cut into 1 cm dice; 1 tablespoon Demerara sugar; 150 ml dry cider; 100 ml cider vinegar; 1 tablespoon olive oil; small handful of sunflower seeds; 2 tablespoons soy sauce; 3 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for rubbing the chops; small handful of pumpkin seeds; 600 g pumpkin, peeled and deseeded

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

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Salads

By Peter Gordon

Published 2005

About

Pork chops are a really succulent cut of meat. While they may have some of that unwanted fat that dieters like to avoid, in this salad they add a juiciness that is very welcome.

I have also used tamarillos in the salad. These were called ‘tree tomatoes’ when I was a youngster growing up in New Zealand, as they really look like plum tomatoes, hanging down off their tree branches. A native of the Peruvian Andes, they have been grown commercially in New Zealand for as long as I can rem