John Torode and Lisa Faulkner pork chops with a gado gado salad recipe on John and Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen

John Torode and Lisa Faulkner served up a tasty Indonesian style pork chops with a gado gado salad on John and Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen.

The ingredients are: 50ml vegetable oil, 1 shallot, finely chopped , 5 cloves garlic, finely chopped or garlic paste, 4 large pork chops, bone in, 20g sea salt and black pepper, 2 tbsp ketjap manis (sweet soy sauce), 2 tbsp madras curry powder, 1 tbsp muscovado sugar, 200g crunchy peanut butter, 2 red chillies, deseeded and finely chopped and 1 tin coconut milk.

For the Gado Gado Salad : 200g sweetheart cabbage, finely shredded, 1 large carrot, finely sliced into matchsticks or julienne, 1 heaped tbsp white sugar , 2 tbsp rice vinegar, ½ tsp salt, 2 baby gem lettuce, cut into wedges , 1 block tofu, diced and fried , 4 boiled eggs, cooked to your liking and halved, 4 ripe vine tomatoes, cut into wedges, 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped and 100g Green Beans, blanched.

Optional: Crispy shallots and sliced red chilli, to garnish.




See recipes by John in his book titled: My Kind of Food: Recipes I Love to Cook at Home available from Amazon now.