Dinner Number 4. Chilli Pork Schnitzel with Potato Cakes and Mushroom Sauce

Created and consumed on 21st August 2011


Penguin's Comments


The combination worked well together, but the plate lacked any form of colour! All together a bit bland looking. I thought it tasted better than it looks. I'd like to find a way of making the potato cakes with less fat and in a less time consuming manner. The pork needed the chilli to balance the rich sauce. Impressed that I attempted something different.


Wildebeest's Comments


A very heavy dish, tasted nice though. Maybe next time a non-cream based sauce. Individually everything tasted nice. Not one I could eat all the time. 


Scores on the doors


                                    Stephen                         Laura
Appearance                       3/5                             2/5
Taste                                 3.5/5                          3/5
Ease                                  2/5                             3/5
Affordability                      4/5                             4/5
Total                                 12.5/20                       12/20


Average score: 24.5/40 = 61%


Suggestions


Try again! Try pork with different kind of potatoes. Try making the potato cakes lighter. Find another sauce. 


Ingredients


Pork
A schnitzel or cut of pork per person (more for hungry people)
Half a lemon
Chilli, salt, pepper, butter


Mushroom sauce
1 onion, chopped
1/2 packet mushrooms, chopped
1 1/2 tbs plain flour
Splash of cream
Salt, pepper, dill


Potato cakes
12 oz potatoes peeled, grated and excess water drained off
1 egg
1oz plain flour
Salt, pepper, dill


Recipe


Potato Cakes

1. Prepare the potatoes and place in a large bowl
2. Add flour, seasoning and egg and combine then set aside until ready to cook
3. Fry in burger shaped forms, about 5 mins each side and then place in oven to keep warm

Mushroom sauce

1. Fry onions, add seasoning
2. Add mushrooms and fry until brown
3. Add more seasoning, flour and cream, then reduce to a thick sauce. Put in the bottom of the oven to keep warm

Pork Schnitzel

1. Season and fry in butter
2. Add chilli and lemon, cook 8-10 minutes until golden

Assemble potato cakes, sauce and schnitzel on plates. 

Notes/Other


The potato cakes are from 'The Vegetarian Student Cook Book'. The sauce idea is also from there, but I made this recipe myself as I didn't have all the ingredients in the book. It was Stephen's idea to add meat, naturally.