Balsamic and thyme pork fillet with potato and parmesan cookies and tarragon carrots

AUTHOR
Valentine Lee
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3.8 8
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 2 Pork fillets (approx. 300 g each)
  • 6 TABLESPOONS Balsamic vinegar
  • 10-12 Stem(s) Thyme
  • 20–30 g Pine nuts
  • 1 large bunch young, small carrots (gross, without green, approx. 600 g)
  • 750 g Potatoes, mainly waxy
  • 1 slightly heaped tablespoon of cornflour
  • 50 g grated parmesan cheese
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 80 g clarified butter
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Honey
  • 125-150 ml clear soup
  • 8 Stem(s) Tarragon
  • 20 g Butter or margarine

Directions

  1. 1

    Wash pork fillets, dab dry and brush with 3 tbsp vinegar. Cover and chill for about 30 minutes, wash thyme, shake dry and remove the leaves.

  2. 2

    Roast pine nuts in a pan without fat, remove from the pan immediately and let them cool down. Clean and wash the carrots, leaving a little green. Peel, wash and coarsely grate the potatoes. Mix in starch, parmesan cheese and egg, season with salt and pepper.

  3. 3

    Heat 20 g clarified butter in a frying pan. Dab the fillets dry and fry them in the hot lard all around. Season with salt and pepper and deglaze with 3 tbsp vinegar and honey. Sprinkle with 3/4 of the thyme and turn in the frying stock.

  4. 4

    Pour on the stock, bring to the boil briefly and cook in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 150 °C/ circulating air: 125 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 20 minutes.

  5. 5

    Covered carrots and stew them in little boiling salted water for about 10 minutes. Heat approx. 15 g clarified butter in a large pan. Using a tablespoon, add 4-5 heaps of the potato mixture to the pan, flatten them a little and fry them until golden brown, turning them over.

  6. 6

    Drain the finished potato cookies on kitchen paper and keep warm. Bake about 20 small potato cookies in portions.

  7. 7

    Take the finished pork tenderloin out of the oven and let it rest in the stew for about 5 minutes. Drain the carrots. Wash tarragon, dab dry and chop coarsely. Heat the fat in the pot, carefully toss in the carrots, pine nuts and tarragon.

  8. 8

    Cut the pork fillets into slices and sprinkle with the remaining thyme. Arrange fillet, tarragon carrots and potato cookies on a large plate. Drizzle meat with balsamic frying stock.

  9. 9

    Add the remaining stock.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
660 kcal
CARBS
39 g
FATS
36 g
PROTEINS
45 g