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Stuffed pork fillet on a bed of mash with Maltese sauce

Serves: 4

Ingredients

For the fillet stuffing

  • 2 well sized pork fillets
  • 2 large marrows cut in long strips and grilled
  • 3 Maltese sausages pre-boiled and cut into long thin strips
  • 50g sundried tomatoes cut into long thin strips
  • 1 apple
  • 1 white gbejna sliced into thin slices approx ½ cm thick
  • Salt and pepper
  • A pinch of dried rosemary
  • A pinch of dried sage
  • 1 clove garlic finely chopped or crushed
  • Tin foil
  • 50g butter

For the sauce

  • 2 cloves of garlic crushed or finely chopped.
  • Olive oil
  • 25g butter
  • 75g sundried tomatoes finely chopped
  • 1 Maltese sausage pre-boiled and finely chopped
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • ½ litre white wine
  • 175ml chicken stock
  • 1 tbsp tomato paste ( kunserva)
  • 175g polpa
  • 225g fresh cream
  • A pinch of rosemary
  • A pinch of sage
  • 6/8 cream cheese sectors
  • 1 whole white gbejna

For the mashed potatoes

  • 8 large potatoes
  • 150g butter
  • 80g tinned milk

Method

Trim the pork fillet from fat and cut lengthwise through the middle, to open up with one side attached. Flatten with a pounder or kitchen hammer and fill with all the ingredients. Season, sprinkle with olive oil, garlic, herbs and roll, enclosing the ingredients like a Swiss roll. Repeat the process with all pork fillets. Cut in half to produce 4 portions. Cut a piece of foil and double fold it. Place the pork fillet on foil, season with salt, pepper, rosemary, sage and a thin slice of butter, and roll the fillet in the foil tightly. Twist the ends to tighten firmly. Repeat process with the remaining pork fillets. Put pork fillets in an oven proof pan or dish and place over a pre-heated grill, seal the pork and turn for a few minutes, then place in a pre-heated oven and cook for 20-30 minutes. For mash boil the potatoes, in salted water and cook until soft. Drain from water, add butter and tinned milk and season to your liking. Next, prepare the sauce. In a frying pan sauté the onions and garlic and herbs in some butter and olive oil until cooked. Add sundried tomatoes and Maltese sausage and cook for 2 minutes. Add honey and wine and leave to reduce, then add chicken stock, tomato paste and polpa cook further to reduce again. Finish off by adding the cream cheese and gbejna, whisk into sauce until melted and add cream and cook for 5 minutes. Bring out the pork fillet, unwrap from foil and cut into half at a slant. Place mash potatoes in the middle of the plate and place a little sauce surrounding the mash potatoes, place the halved pork fillet leaning over or against each one and cover with a little sauce.

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