Dingle Cookery School Recipe

Mark Murphy: Dingle Cookery School

The swede is a funny one, it never gets any

attention. It doesn’t even get called by its proper name. We all call them turnips when in fact their real name is swede.

Regardless of what you call it, I would guess that not too many people ever get excited about them.

While we all may have had them mashed, try roasting them and you will find a sweeter flavour. Add chilli or sage and you will bring it to a new level.

For this recipe I have sneaked it under a delicious slow cooked pork belly. Your butcher will get you pork belly but give them a few days’ notice. If you can’t get pork belly this will work well with pork shoulder (you may have to cook it for another hour or so depending on the size). Give this a go, you may be converted, you may even call it swede, who knows?

Serves 6

Ingredients

for the pork 3 cloves of garlic, crushed 1 tbsn. chili flakes

5-6 sage leaves finely chopped sea salt

1.5kg pork belly with skin on 500ml cider

for the swede

1 large swede, peeled and cut into large slices olive oil

1 clove of garlic, crushed 1 tsp. chili flakes 2-3 sage leaves finely chopped sea salt and pepper

Method

In a small bowl, add the crushed garlic, chili flakes, sage and a pinch of sea salt, mix this well. Score the skin on the pork belly, rub the mixture all over the pork belly and make sure it is rubbed into where you scored the skin. Cover this, place in a fridge and leave it marinate for a few hours or overnight if possible. Preheat the oven to 160ºC.

Take the pork from the fridge and leave to come to room temperature. Place the pork in a tray, add the cider. Cover this with foil and cook for about 3 hours. Check this about half way and add a little more liquid if needed (water will do if you have no cider left). At this stage you can prepare the swede, add the swede to a large pot of boiling salted water. Cook it for about 6-8 minutes. Remove from the water and allow it to drain.

When the pork has cooked for 3 hours remove it from the oven, remove the foil and carefully lift the pork from the tray. Turn the oven up to 190ºC. Add the swede to the tray that the pork was cooking on, add a little oil, garlic, chili and sage. Season with salt and pepper. Place the pork on top. Put this back in the oven and cook for about half an hour. This will help to crisp the pork and give the swede a sweeter flavour. Remove from the oven and allow the pork to rest before serving. Bain taitneamh as!!!

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Plenty of action involving the Castle teams these last few weeks, though not so much opportunity for the community to experience it (until last weekend) times). However on Sunday 13th we were treated to a little footballing joy as our Senior Ladies (teamed up with Annascaul) did us all proud in winning the Junior C Championship Final in a nail biting encounter with Ballymac. With the superb streaming from Full-Time Productions we were able to experience all the action as it played out….a close encounter played in difficult windy conditions and it was a combination of more clinical score taking coupled with resolute defending which edged Castle-Annascaul ahead in the final few minutes to win by 4 points. Delight all through the two Parishes back West!.......and to top off a great fortnight last Sunday they defeated Beale/ Ballyduff in the Nth Kerry League (Div. 3) on a scoreline of 2-12 to 2-06. Also the club send their best wishes to keeper Ciara Butler who is now in full preparation with the Kerry Minors for their upcoming Munster Final against the winners of Tipperary v Cork. SENIORS: A long summer it has been for the Senior Men, not so much competitive game time but a successful Group stage in the Junior Championship, an early exit in the West Kerry Championship and all focus turned to last Saturday 19th, the Junior Championship quarter final against Cordal. A fantastic afternoon's football in Blennerville saw the Seniors advance to the Semi-Finals with a well earned win. A very even match up until the last fifteen minutes when Castle drew away. Fitness, organisation, fine finishing, determined defending and a huge desire were all on the Castlegregory - Annascaul Ladies: Junior C Champions

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The home visit involves conversation, games and encouragement. It’s another opportunity to speak Irish and if you only have a little it might spur you on to learn more!