For this tasty dish, tender lamb fillet is quickly cooked under the grill, then cut up and mixed into a salad of bulghur wheat, red pepper, green olives and fresh mint. No oil is used to dress the salad, just fresh lemon and orange juices, so the fat content is kept healthily low.
Make a spicy pork and bulghur wheat salad with pineapple. Preheat the oven to 220ºC (425ºF, gas mark 7). Mix together the grated zest of ½ orange, the juice of 1 orange, 1 tbsp sunflower oil, 1 tbsp dark rum or soy sauce, 2 tbsp muscovado sugar, 1 large crushed garlic clove, and ½ tsp each ground cinnamon, ground allspice and pepper in a shallow ovenproof dish. Add 400 g (14 oz) pork fillet (tenderloin) and turn to coat with the mixture. Roast for 25 minutes or until tender but still moist. Meanwhile, soak the bulghur wheat as in the main recipe, then mix with ½ sweet ripe pineapple, peeled, cored and chopped, 1 large red pepper, seeded and chopped, 4 shallots, thinly sliced, the juice of 1 orange, 55 g (2 oz) watercress sprigs and 1 tbsp chopped fresh coriander. Season to taste. Spoon onto 4 plates. Slice the pork and arrange on top of the salad. Spoon over the cooking juices and serve immediately.
Lamb is an excellent source of zinc, which is necessary for healing wounds. Lamb also provides useful amounts of iron. * Olives contain about 18 per cent fat by weight, and most of this is healthy monounsaturated fat. * Bulghur wheat makes a refreshing alternative to potatoes, and it has a relatively lower Glycaemic Index.
Excellent source of niacin, viatamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, vitamin C, vitamin E, zinc. Good source of copper, folate, iron, vitamin B2. Useful source of potassium.
This recipe was BEYOND delicious! Was even a hit with my picky eaters! :-) just LOVE the bulgur wheat. I didn't have everything the recipe called for, so used what I had: green olives cucumber didn't have shallots, so left that out completely. just used regular iceberg lettuce the lemon and orange addition, REALLy made this salad incredible! - 07 Mar 2016