Roast fillet of pork with apples and cider

This recipe is a glorious combination of pork and apples.

Preparation Time: 15 Mins

Cooking Time: 45 Mins

Total Time: 1 Hr

Ingredients

For 2 servings…

400 gms           Tenderloin of pork    

                     Pepper  - freshly ground, black 

                     Salt          

                     Olive oil    

2                    Onions  - halved and sliced thickly         

1 small bunch    Thyme      

3                    Apples  - tart, chopped roughly

50 gms            Ginger  - cut into matchstick-sized pieces 

350 ml             Cider        

Method

Heat an oven to 200°C.

Season the pork fillet with salt and pepper.  Put a roasting tin over a fairly high heat and pour in 2 tablespoons of olive oil. When the oil is hot, lower in the pork fillet and let it sizzle and brown lightly on

one side. Turn it and colour the other side, then lift it out and set aside.

Peel the onions, halve them and cut them into thick slices.  Then put them into a mixing bowl.  Pull the leaves from the thyme stems, chop them roughly then add them to the onions.  Mix the apples with the onions, thyme, ginger and a little oil.  Then add a good grinding of pepper and some salt.  Tip the contents of the mixing bowl into the roasting tin and let them soften over a moderate heat.

Once the onions are starting to turn gold, lay the fillet of pork back in the tin and put in the oven to roast for 25 minutes.

Check the pork is cooked and then lift it out on to a warm plate to rest.  Cover it with foil and leave it in a warm place.  Put the roasting tin, with the apples and onions, over a moderate heat and pour in the cider.  Bring it to the boil and then let it reduce to about half its volume - stirring from time to time to scrape up any bits sticking to the pan.

Cut the pork into thick slices, place them on warm plates and surround with the onion, apples and cidery pan juices.

Wine recommendations

A not-too-robust red wine.

Conventional

     Beaujolais Villages

Interesting

     Côtes du Rhône

     Saumur-Champigny