A punchy and nourishing bowl that's made even easier to cook with the air fryer.
Ingredients
Serves: 4
Time: 40 minutes
- 1 pork loin fillet, cut in half
- 4 tbsps fajita seasoning
- 1 tbsp light brown sugar
- 2 peppers
- 1 red onion
- Zest and juice of 2 limes
- 1 tin puy lentils
- 1 x 400g tin borlotti beans
- 1 orange
For the salsa verde
- Handful of flat leaf parsley
- Handful of coriander, plus a little extra for garnish
- Handful of mint
- 2 tbsps pickled jalapenos
- 50g pistachios, shelled
- 50ml extra virgin olive oil
- Zest of ½ an orange
- Zest of a lime
- Sea salt & freshly ground black pepper
Method
- Mix together fajita seasoning, brown sugar and a pinch of salt. Place the pork fillet on a plate and roll in the seasoning until it's completely covered.
- Place into the air fryer and cook at 200C for 5 minutes then turn down to 160C and cook for a further 12 - 15 minutes.
- During the first 5 minutes of the cook, slice the peppers and place into a bowl. Add a drizzle of oil, a pinch of salt and 1 tsp of the fajita spice mix and toss everything together to coat. When you turn the temperature down, place the peppers into the air fryer basket.
- Whilst the pork cooks, thinly slice the red onion and mix with the lime juice and a good pinch of salt- really massage the liquid into the red onion. Leave to quickly pickle
- Get on to the accompaniments. Chop all the ingredients for the salsa verde together on a board then place into a bowl and add the olive oil, drizzling in a steady stream as you stir to combine everything. Zest in the orange and season with the lime juice, adding it to taste.
- The pork should be done by now so remove the pork and peppers, placing them into a bowl to rest whilst you bring everything together.
- Make the salad, add the pouch of puy lentils to a large bowl. Drain the tin of beans and add to the same bowl. Add ½ of the salsa verde, the juice of ½ an orange, some of the pickled onions and a good pinch of salt and pepper and mix everything together well.
- Finally, slice the pork into 1cm pieces and scoop the bean salad onto a platter then top with the peppers. Add the sliced pork then drape over the quick pickled onions and drizzle over the rest of the salsa verde. Garnish with coriander leaves.