Pork & Black Bean Sauce

Pork & Black Bean Sauce

Rice Noodles, Crunchy Veg, Fresh Chilli, Garlic & Prawn Crackers
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Ingredients

Serves 2 | Total 15 Minutes

  • 90 g rice vermicelli noodles
  • 1 onion
  • 1 fresh red chilli
  • 1 x 250g piece of pork fillet
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • 175 g mixed baby corn & mangetout
  • 2 heaped tablespoons black bean sauce
  • 20 g prawn crackers

Instructions

  • Put a large non-stick frying pan on a high heat.
  • In a heatproof bowl, cover the noodles with boiling kettle water.
  • Peel the onion and chop into 1cm chunks, roughly slice the chilli, then dry fry and char both in the hot pan for 2 minutes, stirring regularly.
  • Trim the pork of any sinew, then chop it into 2cm chunks.
  • Peel and slice the garlic, stir into the pan with the pork and 1 tablespoon of olive oil and stir-fry for 2 minutes.
  • Chop the baby corn and mangetout into 2cm lengths, then toss into the pan and stir-fry for another 2 minutes.
  • Add 1 tablespoon of red wine vinegar and the black bean sauce, let it sizzle for 30 seconds, or until the pork is just cooked through, then season to perfection.
  • Drain the noodles and divide between your bowls.
  • Spoon the pork, veg and black bean sauce on top, crumble over the prawn crackers, and tuck in.
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Course; Noodles / Pork / Sauce

Bejewelled Bbq Pork

BBQ pork combines tender pork fillet, smoky barbecue glaze, crispy garlic chips, rosemary, fluffy rice, black beans, and fresh tomato salad into a colorful comfort food recipe packed with bold flavor. The juicy pork develops rich caramelized edges while the fresh salad keeps the dish bright and balanced.

This grilled pork recipe remains popular because it delivers smoky barbecue flavor in a quick and simple meal. The combination of crispy garlic, rosemary, sweet tomatoes, spicy chili, and fluffy rice creates vibrant texture and satisfying freshness throughout the dish.

Smoky BBQ pork with crispy garlic and rosemary

The popularity of BBQ pork continues to grow because pork fillet cooks quickly while staying tender and juicy. Coating the pork with barbecue sauce during resting also creates glossy smoky richness around the meat.

Another reason this grilled pork recipe works so well is the balance between smoky barbecue flavor and fresh ingredients. Crispy garlic chips, rosemary, tomatoes, and chili help lift the richness of the pork beautifully.

Rice and beans create hearty comforting texture

The fluffy rice and black beans give this barbecue pork recipe hearty texture while soaking up the smoky pork juices and barbecue glaze. The beans also add earthy richness that pairs perfectly with the sweet barbecue sauce.

If you enjoy quick pork barbecue recipes, you may also like our Barbecued Pork Loin, another smoky pork recipe packed with rich grilled flavor.

Texture plays an important role in this recipe. The grilled pork stays juicy and tender while the crispy garlic and rosemary add crunchy contrast throughout the meal.

The tomato and chili salad also creates fresh vibrant contrast beside the smoky pork while adding brightness and light acidity to balance the rich barbecue glaze.

Perfect BBQ pork recipe for quick dinners

This BBQ pork recipe works perfectly for weeknight dinners, casual gatherings, summerpartys, and weekend meals because the pork cooks quickly while still delivering deep smoky barbecue flavor.

The grilled pork pairs beautifully with rice, beans, salads, grilled vegetables, roasted potatoes, corn, or fresh bread for a complete comforting meal.

Proper food handling remains important whenever preparing pork and marinades. Pork should always stay refrigerated before cooking and should be cooked thoroughly before serving. For additional meat preparation and food safety guidance, visit the FDA.

Ultimately, BBQ pork delivers juicy grilled pork texture, smoky barbecue richness, crispy garlic flavor, fluffy rice, and fresh tomato salad in a colorful comforting dinner recipe.

BBQ pork with grilled pork recipe, rice, beans, and tomato salad on a rustic wooden table

Bejewelled BBQ Pork

Tender pork fillet with smoky barbecue glaze, crispy garlic, rice, beans, and fresh tomato salad.
Couverts4 servings
Total time 25 minutes
estimated costs pp $3.75 per person
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Equipment

  • Frying pan
  • medium saucepan
  • Knife
  • Mixing bowl

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Pour the black beans and their liquid into a medium saucepan over medium-high heat.
  • Add the rice and boiling water.
  • Season with salt and pepper and cook uncovered for 12 minutes.
  • Cover and remove from the heat.
  • Meanwhile finely slice the garlic.
  • Cook the garlic in olive oil until lightly golden and crispy.
  • Remove and set aside.
  • Cook the rosemary briefly until crispy.
  • Trim the pork fillet and cut into two thick pieces.
  • Season with black pepper.
  • Cook the pork for about 12 minutes while turning regularly until just cooked through.
  • Halve the cherry tomatoes and finely slice the chilies.
  • Mix with olive oil, red wine vinegar, salt, and pepper.
  • Move the pork to a plate and spoon over the BBQ sauce.
  • Top with crispy garlic and rosemary.
  • Serve with the rice, beans, and tomato salad.

Notes & Wine Advice

Notes

Allowing the pork to rest briefly after cooking helps keep the meat juicy and tender.

Serve Tip

Serve this grilled pork with extra barbecue sauce, grilled vegetables, fresh bread, or roasted corn.

Variations

Add smoked paprika, lime juice, avocado, sweet corn, or chipotle chili for deeper smoky richness and spice.

Wine Advice

A fruity Zinfandel pairs beautifully with the smoky pork and sweet barbecue glaze.

Nutrition values

Calories: 540 kcal | koolhydraten: 42 g | Eiwitten: 38 g | Vet: 22 g | Verzadigd vet: 5 g | Natrium: 620 mg | Suiker: 9 g
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Beef wellington for 2

Beef wellington for 2

Puff pastry, spinach pancakes & mushroom pâté
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Ingredients

Serves 2 | total 1 hour 30 minutes

  • 1 red onion
  • 250 g mixed mushrooms
  • 1 x 230g fillet steak
  • ½ a bunch of thyme 10g
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 mug of plain flour plus extra for dusting
  • 100 g baby spinach
  • 1 x 320g sheet of all-butter puff pastry cold

Instructions

  • Peel the onion and roughly chop with the mushrooms.
  • Put a 30cm non-stick frying pan hot on a high heat.
  • Season the steak with sea salt and plenty of black pepper and rub with 1 teaspoon of olive oil.
  • Turning with tongs, sear the steak all over for 2 minutes in total, then remove to a plate.
  • Return the pan to a medium heat with the onion and mushrooms.
  • Strip in the thyme.
  • Cook for 15 minutes, or until soft, stirring regularly.
  • Blitz in a food processor until spreadable, season to perfection, and remove.
  • Blitz 1 egg, the flour, spinach, a pinch of salt and 1 mug of water in the processor until smooth.
  • Put your pan back on a medium heat, rub with oil, then pour in a thin layer of batter.
  • Cook for 1 minute on each side without colour.
  • Tip on to a plate to cool.
  • Cover the leftover batter and chill for breakfast or brunch.
  • Preheat the oven to 220°C.
  • Sit your pancake on a large sheet of clingfilm.
  • Evenly spread over the mushroom pâté.
  • Place the steak in the centre, then gather up the clingfilm and twist into a parcel.
  • Sit the wrapped steak (clingfilm discarded) on the pastry, 2cm from one side.
  • Eggwash all the pastry, then fold and mould the excess over the wrapped steak, leaving a pastry border around it.
  • Trim to 2cm, pinch the edges to seal, eggwash, and decorate with the trimmings, if you like.
  • Cook on the bottom of the oven for 25 minutes, or until the pastry is golden on top and crispy underneath, for blushing, juicy beef.
  • Rest for 2 minutes, then serve.
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Course; Beef

Juicy seared steak

Juicy seared steak

Tomatoes, artichokes, mint, lemon & fluffy couscous
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Ingredients

Serves 2 | total 20 minutes

  • ½ a bunch of mint 15g
  • 100 g couscous
  • 1 x 200g sirloin steak
  • 20 g flaked almonds
  • ½ tablespoon runny honey
  • 160 g ripe mixed-colour cherry tomatoes
  • ½ x 185g jar of artichoke hearts in oil
  • 1 small preserved lemon

Instructions

  • Pick the mint leaves.
  • Pop the stalks into a bowl with the couscous, just cover with boiling kettle water, and cover.
  • Cut off the sinew, season the steak with a small pinch of sea salt and a pinch of black pepper, then use tongs to stand it fat-side down in a large non-stick frying pan on a medium-high heat, turning it on to the flat sides once crisp and golden.
  • Sear on each side, cooking to your liking – I like mine medium rare.
  • Toast the almonds alongside for the last 30 seconds.
  • Toss in the honey, then immediately remove the steak and almonds to a plate to rest.
  • Place the tomatoes in the hot pan, then drain and add the artichokes, along with a good splash of water.
  • Fry and stir for 2 minutes while you finely chop the lemon, removing any seeds.
  • Stir it into the pan with most of the mint leaves and cook for a few more minutes.
  • Fluff up the couscous, season to perfection and divide between your plates, then spoon over the tomatoes and artichokes.
  • Slice and add the steak, almonds, juices and all, then finish with the remaining mint leaves.
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Course; Beef

Prosciutto & sage minute steak

Prosciutto & sage minute steak

Potato & carrot rösti, fried egg & french-dressed spinach salad
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Ingredients

Serves 1 | total 20 minutes

Instructions

  • Wash the potato and carrot, then coarsely grate in long strokes.
  • Toss with a pinch of sea salt, then place on a clean tea towel.
  • Cut off and discard any fat and sinew from the steak, lay the prosciutto on top, press on the sage leaves, then pound with your fist to flatten and help them stick.
  • Put 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a cold 30cm non-stick frying pan.
  • Squeeze the tea towel well to remove any excess liquid from the grated veg, then sprinkle evenly into the pan.
  • Pat flat, place on a medium-high heat and cook for 5 minutes, or until crispy and golden.
  • Carefully flip on to your plate and slide back into the pan to cook for another 3 minutes.
  • Meanwhile, place a medium non-stick frying pan on a high heat.
  • Rub the steak with 1 teaspoon of oil, fry for 2 minutes, prosciutto side down, then flip for another minute, frying the egg to your liking alongside with a drizzle of oil.
  • Mix the mustard, a splash each of red wine vinegar and extra virgin olive oil and a little seasoning, then dress the spinach.
  • Slide your edible rösti on to your plate, put the steak, fried egg and dressed spinach on top, and tuck in.
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Course; Beef

Steak sandwich, Japanese-style

Steak sandwich, Japanese-style

Wasabi, tangy pickled cucumber salad & toasted sesame seeds
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Ingredients

Serves 1 | total 15 minutes

Instructions

  • Use a speed-peeler to peel the cucumber, then finely slice into rounds.
  • In a bowl, toss with a pinch of sea salt and 1 tablespoon of red wine vinegar, and leave to quickly pickle.
  • In a non-stick frying pan, toast the sesame seeds until lightly golden, then remove.
  • Cut off and discard any fat and sinew from the steak, then season the steak.
  • Cook to your liking with a little olive oil on a high heat, turning every minute.
  • Spread the bread with wasabi paste (go hot or go home!
  • ), then add the steak, sandwich together and cut into fingers.
  • Toss the watercress with the cucumber and sprinkle with the toasted sesame seeds, then serve.
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Course; Beef
Cuisine; Japanese

Seared steak & red chimichurri

Seared steak & red chimichurri

Smashed sweet potato, charred spring onions & crispy bits
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Ingredients

Serves 2 | total 20 minutes

  • 1 x 260g sirloin steak
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 2 sweet potatoes 250g each
  • 1 bunch of spring onions
  • 2 fresh red chillies
  • ½ x 460g jar of roasted red peppers
  • ½ a bunch of flat-leaf parsley 15g

Instructions

  • Remove and finely dice the fat from the steak.
  • Put it into a non-stick frying pan on a medium-low heat with the unpeeled garlic cloves, turning them every minute in the fat as it gently crisps up.
  • Meanwhile, peel the sweet potatoes and chop into 4cm chunks.
  • Cook in boiling salted water for 10 minutes, or until tender, then drain, smash, season and keep warm.
  • Trim the spring onions, halve and deseed the chillies, and lightly brown on both sides in the steak fat.
  • Remove 4 spring onions and the crispy fat bits to a dish, then place the rest of the spring onions and the chillies in a blender and squeeze in the soft garlic flesh.
  • Drain and add the peppers, along with the parsley, and ½ a tablespoon each of extra virgin olive oil and red wine vinegar, then blitz until smooth, and season to perfection.
  • Turn the heat under the pan to high.
  • Cut off the sinew, season the steak with sea salt and lots of black pepper, then cook to your liking, turning every minute.
  • Let the steak rest for 1 minute on top of the spring onions, then slice.
  • Spoon 2 tablespoons of sauce on to each plate (save the rest for future meals), sit the steak on top with any resting juices, then serve with the sweet potato, spring onions and crispy bits.
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Course; Beef

Sticky ginger beef

Sticky ginger beef

Chilli jam, rice noodles, lime, cucumber & peanuts
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Equipment

  • heatproof bowl

Ingredients

Serves 2 | total 20 minutes

Instructions

  • In a heatproof bowl, cover the noodles with boiling kettle water.
  • Finely slice the cucumber into batons.
  • Peel and matchstick the ginger.
  • Click apart the lettuce and finely shred the outer leaves, leaving the smaller inner leaves whole.
  • Finely grate the zest of 1 lime into a bowl, squeeze in the juice, add half the chilli jam and 1 tablespoon each of red wine vinegar and extra virgin olive oil to make a dressing.
  • Drain and refresh the noodles, pile on to a platter with the lettuce and cucumber, pour over the dressing and toss well.
  • Cut off and discard any fat and sinew from the steak, chop the steak into 2cm dice, then season with sea salt and black pepper.
  • Put a large non-stick frying pan on a high heat.
  • Roughly chop the peanuts, toast for 3 minutes until golden, then put aside, returning the pan to the heat.
  • Put ½ a tablespoon of olive oil and the ginger into the hot pan.
  • Stir-fry for 1 minute, then toss in the steak for 1 minute – you don’t want to overcook it.
  • Stir in most of the peanuts and the remaining chilli jam, then spoon the steak on to the platter, sprinkle over the remaining peanuts and serve with lime wedges, for squeezing over.
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Course; Beef

Pepper-crusted steak

Pepper-crusted steak

Creamy mustard & whisky sauce, simple broccoli
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Ingredients

Serves 2 | total 20 minutes

Instructions

  • Trim the tough end off the broccoli stalk, use a speed-peeler to remove the outer layer from the remaining stalk, then halve the head.
  • Peel and finely chop the shallot.
  • Place a large non-stick frying pan on a high heat.
  • Rub the steaks with ½ a tablespoon of olive oil, a pinch of sea salt and plenty of black pepper, then put them in the hot pan.
  • Cook to your liking, turning every minute.
  • In a medium pan, cook the broccoli in boiling salted water for 5 minutes.
  • Move the steaks to a plate to rest.
  • Put the shallot straight into the hot pan with 1 tablespoon of oil.
  • Stir and soften for 1 minute.
  • Add the whisky and – if you want to – very carefully flame it.
  • When the flame subsides, stir in the mustard, cream and a splash of water.
  • Simmer for 1 minute, adding any steak resting juices to the mix.
  • Plate up the broccoli and creamy sauce, slice and add the steak, then drizzle with 1 teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil, to finish.
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Course; Beef

Mushroom & beef stir-fry

Mushroom & beef stir-fry

Giant noodles, fragrant ginger, garlic, chilli oil, soy & spring onions
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Ingredients

Serves 2 | total 20 minutes

  • 1 bunch of spring onions
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • 6 cm piece of ginger
  • 125 g fresh lasagne sheets
  • 1 x 150g fillet steak
  • 250 g oyster mushrooms
  • 1½ tablespoons chilli oil
  • 1½ tablespoons low-salt soy sauce

Instructions

  • Trim the spring onions and chop into 3cm lengths.
  • Peel and finely slice the garlic.
  • Peel and matchstick the ginger.
  • Slice the lasagne sheets into 2cm-thick noodles.
  • Rub the steak with 1 teaspoon of olive oil, a small pinch of sea salt and a pinch of black pepper.
  • Put a large non-stick frying pan on a high heat.
  • Dry fry the mushrooms for 3 minutes on one side only.
  • Meanwhile, mix the chilli oil, soy, 1 tablespoon of red wine vinegar and a pinch of black pepper in a large bowl.
  • Tip the mushrooms straight into the bowl of dressing, returning the pan to the heat.
  • Cook the steak to your liking in the hot pan, turning every minute, with the spring onions, garlic and ginger alongside, stirring them occasionally.
  • Meanwhile, cook the pasta noodles in a pan of boiling salted water for 3 minutes.
  • Remove just the steak to a board to rest for a moment, then use tongs to drag the noodles straight into the frying pan, letting a splash of pasta cooking water go with them.
  • Remove from the heat, pour in the mushrooms and dressing and toss together.
  • Divide between bowls, then thinly slice and add the steak, drizzling over any resting juices, to finish.
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Course; Noodles