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Crispy pork with cheese and a fruit salsa

This is the Crispy pork with cheese and a fruit salsa recipe.

  • Prep: 25 min
  • Cooking: 15 min
  • Refrigeration: 30 min
Yields 4 servings
crispy pork with cheese and a fruit salsa

Ingredients

  • Salsa
  • 1 1/3 cups (330 mL) fresh fruit chopped - your choice of peaches, mangoes, grapes, kiwis, pears, pineapple etc.
  • 1/4 cup (60 mL) green onion chopped
  • 1/4 cup (60 mL) red bell pepper chopped
  • 1 tbsp (15 mL) fresh parsley minced
  • 1 tsp (5 mL) sugar
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste to taste
  • 5 oz (150 g) strong Canadian Cheddar with port cut into 4 large sticks
  • 4 large pork cutlets or butterflied pork chops flattened
  • 1/3 cup (80 mL) All-purpose flour
  • 1 egg beaten
  • 1 cup (250 mL) bread crumbs
  • Salt adn freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • Oil for frying
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Preparation

Prepare salsa at least 30 minutes before serving by mixing together all the ingredients. Keep in fridge until you are ready to serve.

Preheat oven to 375 ° F (190° C).

Place a stick of cheese on the thinnest edge of each pork cutlet. Roll up meat to completely enclose cheese.

Place flour in a deep dish, beaten egg in a second dish and mix the breadcrumbs with the salt and pepper in a third.

Bread the pork rolls by dipping them first in flour (shaking off any excess), then egg and lastly breadcrumbs. Repeat the egg and breadcrumb steps.

Heat the oil over a medium high heat. and brown the pork on all sides. Continue cooking in the oven for 10 to 12 minutes.

Heat the salsa for 1 minute in microwave. Serve the crispy pork with the warm fruit salsa.

Tips

Try this recipe with Canadian Havarti with herbs.

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