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Peri Peri Pork Steaks are so easy to make, try to allow 24hrs for the marinade to tenderise the meat, it'll cook on my health grill in about 4 minutes, or, about 8 minutes under a standard grill. This recipe is always a winner as it's bouncing with flavour and very few ingredients are required, and, if you have marinated the pork steaks overnight, all you need to do is knock up some healthy summer salad to accompany the steaks. Please note: I have not added salt as the spice mix I am using contains salt already, so you will need to check your spice mix ingredients

Click the Method tab below to see a step by step guide on how to make Peri Peri Pork Steaks along with pictures as a guide.

peri peri pork steak dinner

ingredients

Here's what you need :¬)

for the marinade

serves 2 to 4

  • 1 red pepper grilled
  • 1/2 fresh lemon or 1 whole lime juiced
  • 1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 5 cloves garlic
  • 1 Tbsp peri peri seasoning

alternative to peri peri seasoning is 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp red chilli flakes, 1 tsp ground cumin & 1 tsp smoked paprika

  • 1 Tbsp dried oregano
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 2 or 4 shoulder of pork steaks

Reserve 2 Tbsp of the the peri peri marinade for the perinaise then use the rest to coat the dry pork steaks with

Ingredients for the perinaise

  • 1 to 2 Tbsp marinade
  • 2 to 4 Tbsp mayonaise

Ingredients to cook with

  • spray oil

method

First things first! Grill / blacken your red pepper as we are going to use this in the marinade. I'm using a long pointy red pepper, but a normal bell pepper will do just as well. When done and cooled, gather the rest of the ingredients for the marinade and pop everything (except the pork & mayonaise!) into a food processor (or mash everything up in a pestal and mortar) and process until it forms a paste.

Marinate overnight if you can, it helps tenderise the meat.

I've included a little 10 second recipe for a sauce — Perinaise — to go on the side, it really goes excellently with the Peri Peri Pork Steaks.

Here's the method in detail:

  1. 1/2 or 1/4 your red pepper, de-seed it and pop it onto a grill to roast until soft. Allow to cool
grill peppers until soft
long peppers grilling
  1. Process or grind the ingredients for the marinade: grilled red pepper, 1/2 lemon or 1 lime juiced, 1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar, 5 garlic cloves, 1 Tbsp peri peri seasoning, 1 Tbsp oregano, 1 tsp ground black pepper & 1 tsp sugar
  2. Take a little of the marinade (1 or 2 Tbsp) and add it to your mayonaise to create a creamy sauce: "Pernaise"
perinaise ingredients
perinaise sauce ingredients
perinaise Sauce
perinaise sauce
  1. Put your "Pernaise" into the fridge to keep & coat the steaks with the rest of marinade
  2. Put the steaks into the fridge in a suitable container with any remaining marinade for as long as you can, 24hrs is ideal
marinate the steaks overnight
pork steaks marinating
  1. Remove your steaks from the fridge & allow to come to room temperature, about 20 minutes or so on a warm day
  2. Spray one side of the steaks with oil
  3. Pre-heat your health grill & add your steaks (oiled side down) then spray the other side with oil & close the grill for 2 minutes then turn the steaks over and close for another 2 minutes. Under a standard grill they will take twice as long

Serving suggestion:

peri peri pork steak...
peri peri pork steak dinner
...with salad, jacket potato & cheese

Peri Peri pork Steaks with Perinaise sauce on the side, a salad and a little vinaigrette dressing with a jacket potato and cheese is going to make one very simple and deliciously scrummy dinner. Everyone's gonna love this :-)