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Mediterranean Style Vegetables with Pork Steaks This dish is a wonderful mix of carrots, courgettes, aubergine & sliced fresh garlic. You do need to do a fair amount of chopping, creating various sizes of vegetable batons, i.e. each type of veg' needs to be of a certain baton size, so that everything cooks evenly. Once that is done the dish is a breeze to put together. Italian dried herbs and oregano mixed with olive oil and tomato puree create a light sauce to compliment the vegetables. Delicious sliced peppers are added to the bake with seasoned pork steaks that go on top of the vegetables after partly cooking. A final summery florish of fresh marjoram will complete the dish with beautiful fresh sweet pine and citrus flavours which elevate the dish to another level.

Click the Method tab below to see a step by step guide on how to make Mediterranean Style Vegetables with Pork Steaks along with a few pictures for guidance.

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ingredients

Here's what you need :¬)

Ingredients for the first bake

  • 1 large carrots cut into small batons
  • 1 large red onion cut into 12 through the core
  • 1 large courgette cut into medium batons
  • 2 aubergines cut into larger batons
  • 2 bowls water & lemon juice
  • 250g fresh baby plum tomatoes halved
  • 5 cloves garlic sliced
  • 3 Tbsp olive oil
  • 1 Tbsp tomatoe puree
  • 2 tsp dried italian seasoning
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 vegetable stock cube crumbled
  • a good grind of salt & pepper onto each layer

Please refer to the pictures as a guide for the size of your batons. This is important as the carrots will take the longest to cook, with aubergines taking the least.

Ingredients for the second bake

  • 1/2 red bell pepper
  • 1/2 green bell pepper
  • 1/2 yellow bell pepper
  • 4 Pork shoulder steaks
  • a good grind of salt & pepper
  • dust of smoked paprika

to finish

  • fresh Marjoram

method

Well! There's a little bit of choppin' to do for this dish, so now's the time to hone those knife skills! Pay attention to the size of those vegetable batons, the carrots particularly need to be the thinnest cut so that they have a chance of cooking before the soft veg' (aubergines, courgettes) turn to mush!

Make sure you cut those cherry tomatoes in half before adding to the dish and save you and your guests from the experience of exploding scalding 'hot-bombs' in the mouth! This is quite important!!!

And on that note, it's' of real benefit to let the dish rest & cool for a little while after you take it out of the oven. It just tastes better when not 'too hot'. :¬)

ingredients
ingredients
note the size of the veg' batons

Method for the first bake

  1. pre-heat your oven to 180c
  2. once chopped, place the courgettes & aubergines into lemon water or they will brown
  3. get a large ovenproof dish and create layers of aubergines, courgettes, carrots, onions, tomatoes & garlic. Make sure to season each layer with salt & pepper. Discard the lemon water
layer the veg'
ingredients in oven dish
  1. in a separate bowl mix olive oil, tomato puree, dried herbs & veg stock cube
  2. mix & pour across the vegetables
pour the mix over the veg'
ground pepper added to veg 03
  1. cover with tin foil & bake @ 180c for 30 minutes
cover with foil
foil covered oven dish 01
  1. slice your peppers & add to the dish
add sliced peppers
veg part cooked in oven dish 01
  1. re-cover & cook for 15 minutes more

Method for second bake

  1. take your pork steaks out the fridge
  2. rub or spray oil onto each steak
  3. season each side of the steaks with salt & pepper
  4. dust with a little smoked paprika
season the steaks
raw seasoned pork steaks on a plate
  1. remove your vegetables from the oven & stir together
  2. add seasoned pork steaks & return to the oven uncovered
add steaks to the dish
raw seasoned pork steaks added to dish
  1. bake again @ 180 c for 20 minutes turning the steaks half way through
  2. sprinkle with fresh marjoram when serving
add fresh marjoram
mediterranean style vegetables with pork steaks cooked

Then just dish it up and you have:-

Mediterranean sunshine...
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...on a plate

Serving suggestion: Mediterranean Style Vegetables with Pork Steaks A big serving spoon, plates, knives, forks and if you wish — some baby new potatoes in chive butter "Simples" & Yummy!

And, what to do with the left-over veg'? Well, I pulled some more pork steaks out and put them in a marinade of olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and paprika — just enough to coat them and left them in the fridge overnight. Next day, I simply seasoned them with salt and pepper, placed them into the health grill and re-heated the left-over veg'. 4 to 5 mins and I have dinner for day two! ;¬)

another day of Mediterranean sunshine...
Mediterranean style vegetables with grilled pork steak
...with grilled pork steak