Slow Roasted Crispy Pork Loin

with beans and chorizio

by Jeanette of Morley

Get the oven really hot (240 deg C) and while you wait mix some salt, a tsp of smoked spanish paprika, juice of a lemon and some olive oil together. Score the skin of a 3kg rib end loin of pork (the bit with all the chops) in a criss cross pattern then rub the red spicy mixture getting into the score lines and all over the skin. Put the meat in a high sided roasting tray and shove in the oven for 30 minutes.

While that's roasting cut up 3 red onions, 200g of chorizio, halve 2 handfuls of fresh ripe tomatoes and take the lids of 2 tins of chopped tomatoes, 2 tins of black eyes beans and 2 tins of borlotti beans. Peel and chop 5 cloves of garlic.

Remove the meat and turn down the temperature to 180degC. Take the pork out the roasting tray and set to one side . Spoon out half the fat (if there's lots) and put the tray on the hob (those long thin burners in the middle are perfect for this - what else do you use them for?). Add the onions, 6-8 whole chilllis (red, green, yellow - i like it colourful!), the chorizio, 6 bay leaves, 2 sprig of rosemary (excellent with pork) and 4 tsp of the smoked spanish paprika and fry gently - scraping of all the sticky stuff from the bottom of the roasting tray. Add the tins of tomatoes, black eyed beans and borlotti beans, the garlic a handful of parsley and a wineglass of water and stir it all together for a minute or so. Stick the pork onto the top , stick it back in the oven and cook for about an hour until the skin is all crispy and the meat moist and tender.

When cooked takle the pork out and tray and let it rest, season the sauce in the tray with salt and pepper and a slosh of red wine vinegar (tangy), remove the whole chillis (they have done their job) stir it all together and serve!

I serve with rice, crusty olive bread, tortilla's, sour cream, feta and olive salad ..anything really!! (after my husband's chopped up the roast into the chops - ALWAYS get the butcher to start this...otherwise the troops get restless waiting!).