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Rustic Italian Pork and Beans

A traditional Italian dish known as 'padellaccia', featuring pork and beans cooked over an open fire.

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Italian
medium
3h 0m
12
Prep: 30 min
Cook: 2h 30m
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Ingredients
  • •Thymea few sprigs
  • •Marjorama few sprigs
  • •1 Onionjuicy
  • •Borlotti beanssoaked overnight
  • •Salta few pinches
  • •Extra virgin olive oilgenerous drizzle
  • •Pork rib sectionintensely fatty
  • •Pork windpipefinely minced
  • •Pork sweetbreads
  • •Pork bellyrough pieces
  • •Pork neckrough pieces
  • •Lardsolid chunks
  • •Tuscan breadsliced half an inch thick
  • •Pork jowlsfresh, sliced paper thin
  • •Garlicfor rubbing
  • •Red winefull-bodied, Sagrantino preferred
  • •Black pepperto taste
Instructions
  1. 1

    Prepare the aromatics: thyme, marjoram, and onion.

    2 min

  2. 2

    Add borlotti beans to a pot with soaking water, salt, half the aromatics, and olive oil. Cook until tender.

    2h 0m

  3. 3

    Cut pork rib section, windpipe, sweetbreads, belly, neck, and lard into small pieces.

    10 min

  4. 4

    Heat a carbon steel pan and add pork fat and olive oil. Render the fat.

    5 min

  5. 5

    Add minced onion to the pan and caramelize.

    5 min

  6. 6

    Add the meat to the pan and brown it.

    10 min

  7. 7

    Add remaining aromatics, cover, and cook.

    10 min

  8. 8

    Deglaze with red wine and add beans with some cooking water. Reduce the liquid.

    10 min

  9. 9

    Season with salt and pepper.

    1 min

  10. 10

    Serve with bruschetta topped with pork jowls and garlic.

    5 min

Equipment Needed
terracotta pot
carbon steel pan
knife

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