Name: Porchetta with cannellini beans and fennel
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 single-clove garlic, finely chopped (see note); 80 ml extra-virgin olive oil (1/3 cup); 60 ml sherry vinegar (¼ cup); 300 gm dried cannellini beans, soaked overnight (see note); 2 bulbs of baby fennel, cut into ½cm dice; ½ Spanish onion, finely chopped; 80 gm green picholine olives (see note) (½ cup); 1½ tbsp olive oil; 800 gm boneless pork belly, cut into 4 pieces across the grain; 1 radicchio, outer leaves and core removed, cut into thin wedges

Porchetta with cannellini beans and fennel

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for porchetta with cannellini beans and fennel.

Serves 4

Prep

10M

Cook

50M

Total

You will need to begin this recipe a day ahead.

Ingredients

1 single-clove garlic, finely chopped (see note)

80 ml extra-virgin olive oil (1/3 cup)

60 ml sherry vinegar (¼ cup)

300 gm dried cannellini beans, soaked overnight (see note)

2 bulbs of baby fennel, cut into ½cm dice

½ Spanish onion, finely chopped

80 gm green picholine olives (see note) (½ cup)

1½ tbsp olive oil

800 gm boneless pork belly, cut into 4 pieces across the grain

1 radicchio, outer leaves and core removed, cut into thin wedges

Method

Main

1.Combine garlic, olive oil and vinegar in a large bowl and set aside. Drain beans and combine in a large saucepan with enough cold water to cover completely. Bring to the boil over medium-high heat, then cook until tender (30-40 minutes). Drain, then add to vinegar mixture with fennel, onion and olives and season to taste with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.

2.Heat olive oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Season pork and cook until browned and cooked through (4-5 minutes on each side).

3.Stir radicchio through bean mixture, divide among plates, top with pork and serve immediately.

Single-clove garlic is milder and sweeter than common garlic. If unavailable, substitute with 2 cloves of garlic per single-clove garlic. Picholine olives are medium-sized olives from France and are available from select delicatessens. Cannellini beans are sometimes called northern beans.
Drink Suggestion: Young Chianti or sangiovese. Drink suggestion by Max Allen
Notes