Leftover Pork

alice87

Hi all.

New to this board having progressed from finding a way to sort out my debts to now tryin to save every penny to throw at them!!

Me & the OH bought a huge leg of pork (3kg!!) yesterday for £9, and are planning to cook it tomorrow along with a load of veg (whatever is on super 6 at aldi!) roast epic amounts of potatoes, and make our own gravy using vegetables under the meat while it's roasting.

Then use the meat for sarnies, and also reheat veg, potatoes, stuffing every evening for dinner. I've worked out that this comes to-

Pork - £9
Veg & potatoes - £2.50
Stuffing - £1

So let's call it £13 total. By my reckoning this will last us 4 x evening dinners and 3 x lunch sandwiches for dinner (it says it serves 14!!) so basically £1 per person per day (bread was obtained free and now in freezer).

I just wanted to see whether anyone else does this, or if I'm living in a dream world that it could really work out so cheap!!

Thanks all

susank

It is perfectly feasable - I always double cook and freeze esp if cooking in slow cooker! I did my loin of pork in it yesterday and enough for 2 of us for 3 meals! Cost me £3.75 as was half price on offer about a month ago.

valk_scot

What you've described is basically the essence of "rubberising" joints of meat and chicken, that is, stretching them out to make several meats by padding out with cheaper vegetablesm stuffing etc and creative use of leftovers. I do this sort of thing most weeks...a big £6 roaster chicken for Sunday lunch does us three meals plus soup, for example, for four of us plus scraps for the cats.

Roast pork makes a nice stir-fry ingredient btw. Marinade leftover cubes of meat in a splash of chilli sauce and soy sauce, then stir fry with vegetables to make a nice topping for noodles or rice.

jcr16

i always buy the £5 chicken from morrisons. easily does us 3 to 4 meals for the 5 of us. i make a roast, a pie , a curry and a risotto. plus the 3 cats get little aswell.

enjoy ur roast pork. if you cook extra stuffing, having it sliced and in the sandwich with a bit of apple sauce with the pork is lush. or in those half bake roll's. fill them when they are hot. makes for a very filling lunch.

Meadows

Have you thought of cutting the joint in half or three and freezing the other as smaller joints? Then roast one joint, eating what you need for that meal and freezing cooked slices to use for another meal with any left over vegetables & gravy you may have at some point or use the meat for sandwiches. If you have plenty left over from each small joint you could also make a curry with the meat.

Curry

Sauce
Oil for frying 2tbls Corn flour (or flour)
Diced onion & garlic 2tbls curry powder
¾ pint stock (or water & stock cube) 2tbls Mango Chutney

450 grams Meat diced into approx 1” cubes or Prawns
Try 1/3 Coconut Block in to the sauce, (add with chutney) especially with white meats. Adds a creamy flavour to the sauce.

Fry meat, onions & garlic for a few minutes until browned.
Add flour and curry powder over a low heat, cook for a few minutes (this cooks out the raw ingredients in the curry powder).
Gradually add the stock and mix well. Increase the heat & stirring, bring to the boil, reduce the heat & add chutney.
Simmer with the lid on. Time varies for meat used, in the last 1/3 of cooking time remove the lid (especially if the liquid appears too thin, to allow steam to escape, if too thin towards the end thicken with a little corn flour (flour), if too thick thin with a little water, either way do not do this at the last minute or the corn flour will not be cook out, or the sauce will taste too watery).

Beef 2 – 2 ½ hours Pork 1 ½ - 2 hours {or until the meat is
Chicken 1 – 1 ½ hours { tender
Prawns: Sauce takes 20 – 30 minute. I would use a fish sauce ‘Nam Plau’ (not too much it’s a salty sauce) to give the sauce a fish taste & add the prawns about five minutes or so, just prior to serving as the prawns tend to go tough if exposed to the heat too long, unless you use uncooked prawns.

This sauce can also be used with left over cooked meat, brown the onions, then make the sauce as above, add meat & cook for 20 – 30 minutes.

This sauce can also be use as a pouring sauce over cooked chops, chicken, fish etc.

Pink.

Hi alice,

Using leftover meat is a great way to stretch your cash as well as your meat. Recently I've been buying larger joints than normal just to have the extra meat leftover.

As your thread has fallen down the board I've added it to the main thread on leftover roast pork which may give you some more ideas.

Pink

LittleLauz

I'd do pork and mushrooms in garlic and mustard sauce, it's sooo tasty!!

All I do is cook the mushrooms so they soften in a pan along with the chopped leftover pork to reheat. Then add 200mls of creme fraiche, stir in some grated garlic and a table spoon of mustard and cook for a few minutes.
I often use this in top of baked potatoes or just with rice, both are yummy.

determined_new_ms

Hi I've been searching but can't find anything can someone suggest something? I have a little pork left over from the roast - so am looking for something that goes light on the pork and heavy on the veggies

Thanks in advance :A

overlykeensaver

hmmm - well what else have you got? How about cooking onions with garlic and other veggies, some herbs or spices, then add stock, tins tomatoes and simmer for about 30 mins then shred in the pork at the end?

Or you could go vaguely chinese-style if you have tinned pineapple and some five-spice mix?

Sublime_2

I love pork cooked in the slow cooker, with butter beans, or cannellini beans. Yum!