Bonfire Night food delights
It's Bonfire Night, and if you're putting on your own amateur fireworks display in the back garden, chef Jimmy Garcia has some ideas for the perfect finger food: pulled pork wraps, loaded sweet potato skins and chocolate apples. Delicious!
Pulled Pork Wrap
Serves: 4
Ingredients
800g Pork Shoulder
For the rub/marinade
3 tbsp dark brown sugar2 tbsp treacle1- 2 tbsp cayenne pepper2 tbsp smoked Paprika1 tbsp cumingood pinch salt and pepper to season1 tbsp English mustard1 tin chopped tomatoes1 stick celery chopped1 onion peeled and chopped1 glass apple juice (or water)2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
For the coleslaw
red cabbageapplefennelcarrotmayoMonterey Jack or cheddar cheeseTortillas
Method
Rub the pork and leave for a couple of hours in the fridge
Place in a roasting tray with the ingredients.
Place parchment over the meat, and then place a lid on the roasting tray, and leave to cook at 180C for 1 hour, and then turn down to 130 degrees for 5 hours.
Remove the pork from the roasting tray, and pull apart.
Transfer all the cooking liquid to a sauce pan, and reduce on a medium heat.
Blend the onions and celery in the sauce, and allow to reduce to a thick consistency before mixing in with all the pork.
Make the coleslaw and wrap up in a tortilla with grated cheese
Sweet potato skins
Ingredients
4 sweet potatoes2tbsp chopped chives1 clove garlic50g grated gruyere cheesehandful cooked pancetta
Method
Cut potatoes in half length ways then roast with the skin down, at 180C for 1 hour.
Scoop out the inside of the potato, and mix with the remaining ingredients.
Place the mix back in to the skins, and bake until cheese is melted and gives a crispy top!
Chocolate toffee apples
Serves: 4
Ingredients
4 Pink Lady Apples4 Wooden Lollipop sticks, or cake pop sticks500g Milk Chocolate
foam base (to stand the sticks in to set)
To decorate
200g White Chocolatehundreds and thousandscrushed hazelnutspopping candy
Method
Melt the Chocolate au Bain Marie in a glass bowl over water
Place a stick through the core of each apple, and dip the apple in to the melted chocolate.
Allow to set by sticking the stick in to a foam holder... alternatively, turn the apple upside down and leave on a grease free surface.
Sprinkle with your choice of decorations, or melt white chocolate once set, or even add popping candy for a 'firework' effect!