Marmalade on toast is the traditional way to eat marmalade but you can also use it in recipes to add a lovely bitter orange flavour.
PAN-FRIED PORK WITH MARMALADE
A quick and easy weekday dinner dish. Serves 2.
You could use this same marinade recipe for slow roasting a piece of pork belly in the oven.
Ingredients:
| 300g sliced pork (for tonkatsu), cut into 2-3cm pieces | 3 TBS soy sauce |
| 3 TBS Swan & Lion Natsumikan Marmalade | 1 TBS sake |
| 1 TSP chopped garlic | 2 TBS vegetable oil |
| 1 TSP chopped ginger |
- Put all the ingredients in a bowl or ziplock bag, mix well and place in the fridge for an hour or more. The meat will be more tender the longer you can leave it in the marinade.
- Heat the oil in a fry pan.
- Add only the pork and fry on a medium high heat until the meat is cooked and nicely browned.
- Add the marinade sauce and continue cooking until reduced to a thick sauce
Serve with rice and a salad or vegetables.
CARROT & MARMALADE CAKE
This simple pudding cake can be cooked in tea cups or mugs in the microwave oven! This recipe made 8 cakes using a medium sized coffee mug (250cc) but you can scale it down to use one or two eggs. You can also freeze the cakes wrapped in cling film.
The cooking time is so quick you can use only one mug if that’s all you have.
| 1 jar of Swan & Lion Marmalade | 300g carrot, peeled and grated |
| 50g unsalted butter | 2TSP mixed spice or 1TSP cinnamon, 1TSP nutmeg and a pinch of clove |
| 50g vegetable oil | 2TSP ground ginger |
| 175g brown sugar | 175g plain flour |
| 3 eggs | 2TSP baking powder |
- Butter the inside of your mug(s) and place a tablespoon of marmalade in the bottom.
- Melt the butter, then pour into a bowl and beat in the oil, sugar and eggs.
- Stir in the carrot, then mix in the spices, flour and baking powder.
- Spoon the cake mixture into the mug to about two-thirds full.
- Loosely cover the mug with cling film.
- Cook in the microwave at 1000W for 80 seconds. It will bubble up quite aggressively. Carefully remove the mug from the microwave, it will be hot.
- Allow the cake to settle down and eat directly from the mug or run a knife around the inside of the mug and turn the cake out onto a plate. Serve with custard, ice cream or whipped cream.
