ROASTED SPICED PORK LOIN WRAPS WITH CRISPY PLUM SALSA

ROASTED SPICED PORK LOIN WRAPS WITH CRISPY PLUM SALSA image

Categories Pork Appetizer Fry Christmas Cocktail Party Plum

Yield 16 People

Number Of Ingredients 18

Ingredients

3 pork loins, fat and any tough muscle trimmed (this is the whitish-grey muscle that you should always trim off as it toughens the meat when cooking)
4 fresh wheat tortillas (or corn if you are going gluten free)
For the marinade:
2 tbs ready made apple sauce
1 tbs brown sugar
2 tbs plum sauce
1 tsp freshly grated ginger
Â½ tsp freshly cracked pink peppercorns
Â½ tsp allspice
Â½ tsp cinnamon
Salt and black pepper for seasoning
3 tbs olive oil
For the plum salsa:
5 semi ripe red plums (donât use the ones that are too ripe as you want a crunch to the salsa)
1 tsp pomegranate molasses (or 1 tbs honey mixed with 1 tbs lemon juice if you canâ t find pomegranate molasses)
1 Â½ tbs rapeseed oil
Grated rind of Â½ orange
Salt and black pepper for seasoning

Steps:

Mix all the ingredients for the pork loin marinade. Cover and leave to chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours. In the meantime, prepare the plum salsa. Slice the plum into small wedges. Combine all the rest of the salsa ingredients in a glass bowl and add the plum wedges. Leave to chill until required. 20 minutes before serving, remove the pork for the fridge and bring back to room temperature. Heat a wide frying pan, adding 1 tbs olive oil to heat until hot but not smoking. Place the pork loins into the oil, turning round regularly to sear and brown all over. Lower the heat, add the remaining marinade from the bowl, cover and lower the heat to medium. Cook, turning occasionally for even cooking, basting with the marinade for around 12 minutes. Every 2 â" 3 minutes, add a splash of water, so the marinade does not dry and burn. You want to keep it a thick marinade at all times and avoid burning it on the bottom of the saucepan. Remove the meat from the pan and let it rest on a clean chopping board, covered with foil paper. Keep the leftover marinade juices from the pan. Now for the assembly. Gently heat one wrap and cut into quarters. Wrap in a soft cloth and heat in the microwave for 40 seconds or so until slightly softened. Donât heat them too long as they will get hard. You want them soft enough to fold. Add 2 tbs cranberry sauce and Â½ cup water to the remaining marinade sauces from the pan. Heat until slightly thickened for 2 minutes. Slice each pork loin into approximately 10 thin slices each. Spread 1 tsp of the sauce onto a wrap triangle. Place one slice of pork on the sauce. Top with a heaped teaspoon of plum salsa. Finish by bringing the two opposing sides of the wrap together, securing with a nice bamboo style cocktail stick or regular toothpick. Place your wraps on a large rustic platter, with a heap of the leftover plum salsa on the side with a small bowl of the remaining dipping sauce. Watch how quick these get devoured!