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Pork and Sweets Bowl

Hey, this looks like something I'd make. But it also points out how much I need to learn about food photography. It's a recipe from Better Homes & Gardens for Pork and Sweets Bowl. the recipe is pasted in below, but you can make revisions, starting with using plain roasted pork, portioned out to be right for bariatric diets.


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Ingredients

  • 2 cups Cuban Pulled Pork, heated
  • 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced
  • 2 tablespoons maple syrup
  • 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 2 cups shredded romaine lettuce
  • 1 avocado, halved, seeded, peeled and sliced
  • purchased fresh pico de gallo
  • 4 cloves minced garlic
  • ⅓ cup orange juice
  • ⅓ cup lime juice
  • ½ teaspoon ground cumin
  • ½ teaspoon salt



Directions


  • Step 1
    Preheat oven to 425°F. Line a 15x10-inch baking pan with parchment paper. Arrange sweet potato slices in a single layer in pan. Drizzle with maple syrup and 1 tablespoon oil. Bake for 20 minutes or until browned and tender, turning halfway through baking.
  • Step 2
    Arrange pork, sweet potato slices, romaine, avocado, and purchased fresh pico de gallo in a bowl. Make a quick garlic-citrus sauce (aka mojo) to spoon over: Cook 4 cloves minced garlic in 2 Tbsp. hot oil. Add 1/3 cup each orange and lime juice and 1/2 tsp. each cumin and salt. Simmer 5 minutes.

Nutrition Facts (Pork and Sweets Bowl)


Per Serving:

404 calories; 21 g total fat; 4 g saturated fat; 8 g polyunsaturated fat; 8 g monounsaturated fat; 61 mg cholesterol; 393 mg sodium. 952 mg potassium; 33 g carbohydrates; 6 g fiber; 13 g sugar; 22 g protein; 0 g trans fatty acid; 10895 IU vitamin a; 34 mg vitamin c; 0 mg thiamin; 1 mg riboflavin; 5 mg niacin equivalents; 1 mg vitamin b6; 89 mcg folate; 1 mcg vitamin b12; 99 mg calcium; 3 mg iron;
 
I gotta learn how to cook !
Yeah, but you know this doesn't even have any cooking in it to speak of. You can just roast the pork following any recipe and you can put the sweet potato, unpeeled, in the microwave for three or four minutes. The rest of it is just chopping and stirring.

Just make sure that two-thirds of your plate is occupied by vegetables and the rest is protein. But use a smaller plate of course. This recipe that I posted actually supposed to serve four normal people. I would revise it using extracts like maple for flavor without adding any sugar.

You can do this!
 
Hey, this looks like something I'd make. But it also points out how much I need to learn about food photography. It's a recipe from Better Homes & Gardens for Pork and Sweets Bowl. the recipe is pasted in below, but you can make revisions, starting with using plain roasted pork, portioned out to be right for bariatric diets.


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Ingredients

  • 2 cups Cuban Pulled Pork, heated
  • 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced
  • 2 tablespoons maple syrup
  • 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 2 cups shredded romaine lettuce
  • 1 avocado, halved, seeded, peeled and sliced
  • purchased fresh pico de gallo
  • 4 cloves minced garlic
  • ⅓ cup orange juice
  • ⅓ cup lime juice
  • ½ teaspoon ground cumin
  • ½ teaspoon salt

Directions


  • Step 1
    Preheat oven to 425°F. Line a 15x10-inch baking pan with parchment paper. Arrange sweet potato slices in a single layer in pan. Drizzle with maple syrup and 1 tablespoon oil. Bake for 20 minutes or until browned and tender, turning halfway through baking.
  • Step 2
    Arrange pork, sweet potato slices, romaine, avocado, and purchased fresh pico de gallo in a bowl. Make a quick garlic-citrus sauce (aka mojo) to spoon over: Cook 4 cloves minced garlic in 2 Tbsp. hot oil. Add 1/3 cup each orange and lime juice and 1/2 tsp. each cumin and salt. Simmer 5 minutes.

Nutrition Facts (Pork and Sweets Bowl)


Per Serving:

404 calories; 21 g total fat; 4 g saturated fat; 8 g polyunsaturated fat; 8 g monounsaturated fat; 61 mg cholesterol; 393 mg sodium. 952 mg potassium; 33 g carbohydrates; 6 g fiber; 13 g sugar; 22 g protein; 0 g trans fatty acid; 10895 IU vitamin a; 34 mg vitamin c; 0 mg thiamin; 1 mg riboflavin; 5 mg niacin equivalents; 1 mg vitamin b6; 89 mcg folate; 1 mcg vitamin b12; 99 mg calcium; 3 mg iron;
I cannot wait to try this! I have put it on my "menu" for next week's meals so I can try it out :) My favorite meal at the moment is buffalo chicken stuffed green peppers. I simply cook and shred 1 lb of chicken (at the same time I am cooking green peppers in the oven @ 350 for 20 min by themselves so they are nice and soft by the end), then add hot sauce (enough to coat all of the chicken) and gouda cheese and continue cooking on the stove to somewhat melt the cheese. Then stuff it into green peppers and cook at 350 for 25 min. Once I get it out of the oven, I will cut up the green peppers and mix it all together and then drizzle ranch dressing that has been thinned out with milk over it. Perfection!

And now.... this may be another new favorite as I seem to becoming as addicted to sweet potatoes and avocado as I am to cheese :p
 
I cannot wait to try this! I have put it on my "menu" for next week's meals so I can try it out :) My favorite meal at the moment is buffalo chicken stuffed green peppers. I simply cook and shred 1 lb of chicken (at the same time I am cooking green peppers in the oven @ 350 for 20 min by themselves so they are nice and soft by the end), then add hot sauce (enough to coat all of the chicken) and gouda cheese and continue cooking on the stove to somewhat melt the cheese. Then stuff it into green peppers and cook at 350 for 25 min. Once I get it out of the oven, I will cut up the green peppers and mix it all together and then drizzle ranch dressing that has been thinned out with milk over it. Perfection!

And now.... this may be another new favorite as I seem to becoming as addicted to sweet potatoes and avocado as I am to cheese :p
Mmm, can I come to supper? :p
 
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