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CONTESTANT SCORECARD
Elimination Challenge Wins: 2/10
Quick Fire Challenge Wins: 4/10
Status:
WINNER OF TOP CHEF SEASON 3!
File Under:
Featured Recipes, Main Courses, Season 4
BBQ Pork Shoulder with Braised Greens
Source: Richard Blais, Top Chef Season 4
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BBQ Pork Shoulder with Braised Greens, Coffee and Local Mango
Prep Time: three hours
Serves: 4
Directions:
BBQ Pork Shoulder with Braised Greens, Coffee:
Season the pork with the coffee and barbeque spice and sear golden brown in cooking oil. Remove the pork to a paper towel and add the carrots and onion to the pan; toast the spices in the pan as well. Deglaze with the cider vinegar and add the pork back to the pan, then the stock, bring to a boil and then simmer with a lid on the pot for 2 hours or until tender. Strain the liquid and either reduce or serve as is.
Local Mango Salad:
Clean and cut the swiss chard into hair-like ribbons. Sweat the bacon or warm the fat and add the onion and garlic until it gives off a nice aroma. Season with salt and pepper.
Add the swiss chard and cook quickly, finish while the greens are bright, but cooked then add the vinegar right before serving.
Chop mango and marinate with oil, cilantro stems and lime juice.
Ingredients:
BBQ Pork Shoulder with Braised Greens, Coffee:
4 pork shoulders, cut into 12 oz pieces
4T ground coffee
12T barbeque spice
Oil for cooking
1 carrot, chopped small
1 large onion, chopped small
2 star anise
2 cloves
2 chilies fresh or dried
Salt and pepper to taste
1 cup cider vinegar
1 qt veal or duck or dark chicken stock
Local Mango Salad:
1 bunch swiss chard, destemmed, cut into ribbons
2T bacon fat or 1/4 cup bacon, chopped
1/2 onion, minced
1t garlic, minced
A few pinches salt and pepper
A few splashes hot pepper vinegar or a spicy vinegar
2 mangos, diced small
A few drops white truffle oil
1/4 cup cilantro stems, chopped tightly
1 lime, juiced (use only half)
Comments
Celia wrote:
I am just heartbroken that Antonia had to pack her knives. Even though she slipped up this challenge she deserved to stay more than Lisa. Will someone please send Lisa home already??
posted on June 4, 2008 at 8:07 PM
Leticia wrote:
I loved the show, my fiance is PR and his mouth was watering at the ribs richard made with the malta...he loves malta!! Could you post this recipe???
posted on June 5, 2008 at 8:55 AM
BunnySix13 wrote:
I agree! I wish Lisa went home, but it was very apparent that Antonia's table had very little action. It's hard to understand how undercooked pea's and dish placement made such a difference, when Lisa's dishes had technically more wrong issues. Plus the fact that Lisa had been on the chopping block more than her. We'll miss Antonia and I guess have to deal with Lisa's sour lemon face another week!!!
posted on June 5, 2008 at 10:05 AM
Amanda wrote:
Leticia,
Go to this main page (all recipes in Season 4) and the recipe for the Pork Belly should be the first recipe shown. Keep this link for future yummy recipes on the show...
http://recipes.mt.bravotv.com/top_chef/season_4/
posted on June 5, 2008 at 12:00 PM
gisela turner wrote:
lisa has been at the bottom of judges table more than anyone why did antonia go home instead of lisa. i think besides being on the bottom for some dishes her attitude stinks.
gisela turner
posted on June 8, 2008 at 7:38 PM
Hazel Miller wrote:
Please send Lisa home she should have left after Dale.
posted on June 8, 2008 at 9:32 PM
Sylvia wrote:
Why, oh why is Lisa still cooking?? She isn't a Top Chef quality chef! I just don't understand - it must be DUMB luck (I mean really DUMB) on her part.
I wish Richard and Stephanie nothing but the best. Both of you can cook Lisa under and over the table!
To Richard: Congrats on the new baby! Maybe she'll become a Top Chef like her dad someday!!
posted on June 9, 2008 at 6:14 PM
Maria wrote:
I think Dale deserved to be in the final 3 and Lisa and Spike should have gone home way before they did. Dale's technique and overall performance was superior than the other contestants.
posted on June 11, 2008 at 11:39 AM
ched wrote:
congratulations to stephanie,
wonderful execution, good job. congrats also to richard and lisa. to richard for his amazing techniques and for lisa's determination to stay true
to herself. loved the whole show.
posted on June 12, 2008 at 3:47 AM
Peggy wrote:
Huge Congratulations to Stephanie, Congratulations to Richard and Lisa, on their almost Top Chef wins. They were all so skilled and Richards cerebral cooking was wonderful. Lisa was always interesting, not always a good loser at challanges. Lisa' style of cooking wa s also very inventive. Stephanie was so unflappable, she was incredible.
posted on June 18, 2008 at 6:55 AM