Weekend in front of us again. It feels like it takes ages to settle down and arrange everything 🙂 However, at least kitchen is arranged well so I can cook whatever house brings… and this time couscous with baked pork.
What do you need:
200 g couscous
1 kg pork shoulder
4 garlic cloves
vegetable stock
ground cumin
1 tsp ground cinnamon
lemon juice from 1/2 lemon
olive oil
red onion
400 g chickpea
roasted pepper
parsley
mint
radish
Feta cheese
Firstly, start with pork baking. I have used slow cooker and baked the pork for almost 2 days in row. Take a pork shoulder and all you need is ground cumin, olive oil and crushed garlic for seasoning. Season your meat and put it into the slow cooker together with cup of hot water and vegetable stock. Let it cook until soft and tender. You definitely do not need to bake it for 2 days, however I would leave it for example over night 🙂
Once you have almost ready your pork, you can start with couscous preparation which is very quick and easy. Take a big pan and chop onion into bigger pieces and add it into the pan together with oil. Heat it up and let it fry until nicely glassy. In the mean time, cut pepper into smaller pieces and add it into the pan with chickpea. Add teaspoon of cumin and cinnamon and mix it properly. Let it fry until it smells nicely in your kitchen. Afterwards, add lemon juice into mix and couscous with water, mint and parsley. Let it cook until soft. At the end, mix it properly and you can serve with tender pork and chopped radish with Feta cheese aside.
Enjoy it, my friends!
Vero & Canito
