Jerk Pork and Black Bean Tostadas with Mango Avocado Salsa
Jerk Pork is EVERYwhere in the USA as I discovered on a recent trip. And with good reason—it is fragrant, spicy, hot and just plain incredible.nAlthough usually barbecued, you will still get the same delicious flavours in this easy version for the Thermomix.
I also found Caribbean food everywhere when I visited the UK, back when we were allowed to travel. The vibrancy of Caribbean food is amazing, both in colour and the pop in your mouth! So get acquainted with this one and you will see why.
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Need
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The Pork
- 150 Grams black beans, soaked for a few hours
- 1 Litre boiling water
- 2-4 cloves garlic peeled
- 1 red chilli large
- 3 spring onions, halved
- 40 Grams fresh ginger peeled
- 1 Teaspoon ground cinnamon cinnamon
- ½ Teaspoons ground nutmeg
- 2 Teaspoons smoked paprika
- 1 Teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper
- 2 Teaspoons pink salt flakes BUY
- Few sprigs fresh thyme, plus some more
- 40 Grams coconut sugar
- 30 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- 500 Grams pork mince
- Mini corn tortillas for frying
- Coconut oil, for frying
- lime wedges, to garnish
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Salsa
- 1 mango, diced
- 2 spring onions, sliced
- 1-2 avocados, diced
- 1 capsicum/bell pepper small red, diced
- 1 Punnet grape tomatoes, halved
- Few sprigs thyme
- 2 Teaspoons coconut sugar
- pink salt flakes and pepper, to taste BUY
- Juice of 1 lime
Do
- 1
Place soaked beans into the Thermomix bowl and fill to 1L mark with boiling water. Cook 30 min/100°C/Reverse/speed 1. Drain beans and set aside.
- 2
Rinse the Thermomix bowl.
- 3
Place garlic, chilli, spring onions, ginger, spices, seasoning, thyme, coconut sugar and extra virgin olive oil into the Thermomix bowl and chop 4 sec/speed 5.
- 4
Sauté 6 min/Varoma/Reverse/ speed 1.
- 5
Add mince and beans. Cook 15 min/ Varoma/Butterfly/Reverse/speed 1.
- 6
Meanwhile, assemble the salsa, by combining all ingredients in a bowl. Allow to marinate for at least 10 minutes.
- 7
Shallow-fry the tortillas in coconut oil until puffed and golden.
- 8
Top each tostada with the pork mixture, then the salsa, and serve garnished with a few thyme leaves and a wedge of lime. It also goes beautifully with Avocado and Lime Mayonnaise.
Served with
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!