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The Moro Cookbook
By Samantha Clark, Samuel Clark, Pia Tryde
Ebury Press - 2003
Lentil Soup with Cumin : page 76
I love lentils but I found this soup very disappointing. Perhaps it is just too simple--onion, garlic, lentils, and cumin with optional spinach, topped with a bit of lemon or yogurt. Simplicity can often be wonderful, but in this case, it wasn't enough.
The instructions are also not entirely clear. Are you supposed to blend the yogurt or lemon into the soup when puréeing it or is it part of the serving suggestion?
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This recipe basically involves browning a pork roast in a pot, adding milk and flavourings, and then simmering with the lid half off until the pork is cooked and still juicy, and the milk has evaporated leaving the remaining solids to caramelize into an almost cheesy sauce.
I only had a small roast (about 500 grams) and, even though I tried to scale the recipe down, it took only 50 minutes to cook the pork and over 2 hours to evaporate the milk. This may have been a result of cooking the roast in a smaller pan, although I figured this was just part of scaling down the recipe.
The result was tender and flavourful pork. The caramelized sauce is slightly sweet and subtly flavoured with bay and cinnamon. If you didn't know what it was, it would be hard to describe.
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