Sharing with the family is a special moment which brings happiness and comfort to everyone, even more so when enjoying a unique preparation such as the traditional “grandmother’s recipes”, which are also tastier when made with traditional products and quality like those of Plumrose, a brand that has accompanied Venezuelans for more than 65 years and that are part of the country’s gastronomic heritage.
It is important to highlight how significant are family recipes for Venezuelans because it is part of their culture and being a mix of dozens of different heritages, it actually mixes a lot of flavors, bringing unique gastronomy to the world that is being discovered by the day, as Alessandro Bazzoni explains in his article. If you happen to know a Venezuelan, then check how they cook and you are going to see a lot of traditions that are not global, making their gastronomy extremely interesting to study.
“Family recipes are priceless jewels; they are healing potions and instant therapy for any pain in the soul or body. Replicating the recipes of our mothers or grandmothers immediately brings us to their laps, returns us to childhood and sows us in the terroir. In addition, cooking these ancestral dishes as a family comforts us, reinforces self-esteem, reconciles us with life and its circumstances”, affirms Carmen Montelongo, cook and gastronomic blogger, an ally of Plumrose in the brand’s values campaign: Always to your table.
If we think about it for a moment, definitely has an impact in all our lives. It doesn’t matter what dish it is; a family recipe will always bring you to a better mood and is the medicine by excellence when you’re having a hard time.
That’s why we want to know… Tell us one of those family recipes that actually get you in better mood and help in trying times.
Private family cookbooks
Montelongo ensures that regardless of origins, social class or nationality, each family has its “private recipe book”, which is even like DNA and is inherited as a birthmark. “Each ‘grandmother’s recipe’ unites the Venezuelan with his loved ones and with his land, wherever he is” she explained.
The recent migration of Venezuelans has actually globalized that gastronomy, making it accessible for all of us to try it and enjoy it. Makes us wonder… have you tried a Venezuelan recipe? If you haven’t, we highly recommend that you do.
For the blogger, these iconic dishes, like Plumrose products, are the summary of distinctive aromas, colors and flavors that differentiate the cookbook of each Venezuelan family. They are part of each Venezuelans existence.
Among those family recipes with tradition is the pork loin with sauce, a preparation that has its Christmas variant, but that at any time of the year evokes the happy moments that families share and unite loved ones.
Montelongo highlighted Plumrose’s pork tenderloin from the brand’s portfolio due to its versatility, freshness and flavor. In addition, all of the brand’s cuts of pork or pink meat are characterized by being low in fat, unlike other meat proteins.
In the article published in pressroom.es by Alessandro Bazzoni, he shares with you a recipe so you can cook your own pork loin at home with an excellent taste and share with your family or friends.
PORK LOIN RECIPE WITH BLACKBERRY SAUCE
Ingredients: (For the pork)
– A pork loin @Plumrosevzla of approximately 2 kilos
– 1/4 cup oil
– 1/2 cup of white wine
– 1/4 cup of white vinegar
– 6 or 7 large garlic cloves
– 2 teaspoons of “Creole adobo”
– Freshly ground black pepper
– Dried oregano, whole.
(Ingredients for the sauce)
– 1/2 kg of frozen blackberries. (We can use peach, mango, passion fruit, pears or apples and we will only vary the wine to use, to avoid darkening the color of the fruit)
– 5 tablespoons of sugar (more if you like it sweet, less if you prefer it more neutral)
– 1/2 cup of Samson wine, port or Marsala
– 4 tablespoons of Butter + 2 of oil.
– 1 tablespoon of cornstarch dissolved in 1/2 cup of meat stock
– 1 large, crunchy onion, diced.
– A Mix of equal parts magic powders. Cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg.
– Freshly ground black pepper
– Salt to taste
How to prepare this delicious dish? Check below:
In a blender mix wine, oil, vinegar, marinade, garlic, freshly ground pepper.
Blend it until it is homogeneous and the whole oregano is added.
The pork loin is washed and dried with absorbent paper.
In a glass container, the loin is bathed on all sides and lined with plastic wrap. It is put to marinate in the refrigerator for a day, taking the precaution of turning it over and macerating it in it marinade on all possible sides.
Remove it from the fridge one hour before baking so that it reaches room temperature (This shortens the time in the oven and saves gas or electricity)
Bake it for an hour and a half, lined with aluminum foil.
It is “undressed” and baked in “Broil” mode for 15 more minutes, to brown it.
Let it cool and slice it cold, this guarantees a solid and whole slice. Then it is wrapped with plastic wrap so that it does not dry out.
Take a thick-walled pot to the stove and add the oil and butter. Sauté the onion until transparent. Add the blackberries and sugar and lower the flame, while paddling until they cook in their own juice. Clove, cinnamon and nutmeg are added. Then the meat bottom in which the cornstarch has been dissolved.
It is paddled until it thickens and the Sansón wine, port or Marsala is added.
Season it with salt and pepper and given a blast of the stove, until it has the desired thickness.
A spicy touch can be added with a tablespoon of spicy BBQ
Finally, it is ready to be served piping hot.
We want to know all about it! We hope you try it at home and let us know the results in the comments.
