TEMESVAR PORK - TEMESVÁRI SERTÉSSZELET

This is a delicious Székely dish. Similar to paprikás, but bacon and fresh yellow beans are as essential as real Hungarian paprika. The recipe is easy and quick as long as the ingredients are at hand. Yellow beans are seasonal and perhaps not available everywhere. Though I have seen it in stores, we grow them in our backyard and I freeze a few dozen bags every summer. Fresh beans are the easiest thing to freeze; they are one of the few vegetables that don’t require blanching.  

TEMESVAR PORK

4 thin slices of boneless pork chops

scant 1/4 cup flour

1/4 cup oil

2 thick slices of bacon

1/2 onion, finely chopped

1 yellow or red pepper, diced

1 medium tomato, diced

1 garlic clove minced

1 cup hot water

1 1/2 cups chopped yellow beans [fresh or frozen]

1 Tbsp Hungarian Paprika

1/2 cup sour cream, 14%

1/2 cup water

salt to taste

Pound out the pork chops very thin.

Sprinkle with salt on both sides.

Roll each slice into flour covering completely. Set aside.

Keep remaining flour for use later.

Dice the bacon.

Add the oil to an extra large, deep non stick skillet.

Add the diced bacon and on medium heat start to slow fry.

When the bacon begins to get a bit of color, push them to one corner and add the prepared pork chops. Continue to slow fry.

Slow fry the pork chops until both sides are lightly browned.

Transfer the pork cops to a plate and cover them with a lid.

Keep the bacon bits in the skillet and add the finely chopped onions.

Slow fry them for 2-3 minutes and then add the diced pepper and tomato and the minced garlic and continue to slow simmer occasionally stirring with a wooden spoon.

When the tomato is cooked down add the pork chops and the chopped yellow beans.

Add 1 cup of hot water and continue to slow simmer and cover with a lid.

Once the yellow beans are tender, uncover and stir in the Hungarian paprika.  

In a small bowl, combine 2 Tbsp from the reserved flour with 1/2 cup of sour cream. Stir in 1/2 cup of hot water. 

Pour the sour cream mixture into the simmering dish and cook for 3-4 minutes longer and serve.