Pork, chickpea and sweet potato stew

13 ratings

Prep Time:10 mins

Cooking Time:60 mins

Serves:1 Adult

This recipe adds lots of flavour to your pork. It is a perfect winter warmer!

Ingredients

1 teaspoon of olive oil
1 lean loin pork chop (170g / 6oz.), cut into strips
1 small onion, peeled and chopped
1 clove of garlic, peeled and crushed or finely chopped
½ teaspoon of paprika
½ teaspoon of rosemary
½ teaspoon of thyme
1 bay leaf
1 tablespoon of chickpeas, drained
½ medium sweet potato, peeled and cubed
1 small tin of chopped tomatoes (227g / 8oz.)

Method

Heat the oil in a not stick pan and when hot, brown the pork. Remove the pork from the pan and set aside.
Next add the onion and all the herbs and spices and cook for 5 minutes before stirring in the remainder of the ingredients, including the pork.
Cover the stew, turn the heat down to its lowest and simmer until tender (1 hour).

What you will need

Chopping board
Chopping knife
Saucepan

Serving suggestions

Serve with some wholemeal bread.

Nutritional Information:

All our recipes are nutritionally analysed by our team of experts.

This recipe contains

Energy

2266kj

539kcal

27%

Fat

16g

23%

Saturates

4.5g

22%

Sugars

18g

20%

Salt

0.56g

3.5 of your 5 a day

FOOD SAFETY

Preventing cross contamination

Cross contamination is when harmful bacteria are accidentally transferred from raw food to ready-to-eat food.

HEALTHY EATING

Replacing sugary drinks

Did you know some sugary drinks can contain as much as 7 spoons of sugar in a single serving?

"Remember to wash your hands with warm soapy water after handling raw meat"

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