Pork and pepper in cream sauce

Serve this flavourful saucy-pork mixture over rice, noodles, vol-au-vents, braised shredded cabbage, etc., along with a few side veg of your choice. Or, divide mixture into 4 individual serving size oven-safe dishes, cover each with a crust, and bake for about 30 minutes to serve as pot pies.

Just 445 calories per generous 1 cup (250 g / half-pound) serving.

(To be clear, this is a “Cooking with Canning you have already done” recipe. This is not a recipe for canning.  )

This recipe uses:

Home-canned pork

Home-canned peppers

Home-canned mushrooms

SOS Mix

The recipe

Yield: 4 servings

Cooking time: 10 minutes

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Pork and pepper in cream sauce

A flavourful saucey-pork mixture made from your home-canned pork.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword Peppers, Pork

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 5 minutes minutes

Total Time 15 minutes minutes

Servings 4 cups (1 kg)

Calories 445kcal

Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

• 1 litre jar home-canned pork cubes (1 quart jar)
• 1 half-litre jar home-canned peppers (1 pint)
• 1 quarter-litre jar home-canned mushrooms (½ pint)
• 50 g SOS mix (⅓ cup / 2 oz)

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

• Open and drain well the contents of all the jars, reserving the liquid.
• Take 300 ml (1 ¼ cups / 10 oz) of the combined liquid, and put in a large microwave-safe jug or bowl.
• Whisk in the SOS sauce mix.
• Nuke in microwave on high for 1 minute.
• Remove from microwave, whisk.
• Return sauce mix to microwave; nuke on high for another 2 to 3 minutes until thickened.
• Remove from microwave, whisk.
• Fold in the drained ingredients from the jars.
• Heat combined mixture a final two or three minutes in microwave.
• Serve hot.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 445kcal | Carbohydrates: 15.9g | Protein: 72.8g | Fat: 9.5g | Saturated Fat: 3.1g | Cholesterol: 184mg | Sodium: 220mg | Fiber: 3.8g | Sugar: 8.2g

Recipe notes

• Instead of bell peppers, you can use any kind and heat of peppers you have home canned. Or try another veg, such as green or yellow wax beans, etc;
• Adjust sauce to taste by adding some hot sauce, chili flakes, few tablespoons of parmesan, etc.;
• If you want more sauce to put over side vegetables, etc, double the amount of liquid and SOS mix used.

Nutrition

Per  1 cup ( 250 g / half-pound)

• 445 calories, 220 mg sodium

* Nutrition info provided by https://caloriecount.about.com