Pork Recipes
Tested pork dishes — carnitas, char siu, dumplings, sausage dinners, and slow-cooked stews.
15 recipes · Updated
Featured Recipes
Sheet Pan Sausage and Vegetables
Sausage coins, bell peppers, courgette, and red onion roasted together on one pan at high heat until caramelised and tender — a complete, fuss-free dinner with almost no washing up.
Spanish Rice with Chorizo (One Pan Dinner Under £5)
Smoky, golden rice cooked with spicy chorizo, peppers, and tomatoes in a single pan. A deeply flavourful, fuss-free dinner ready in 35 minutes — inspired by the flavours of arroz a la española.
Sausage and Tomato Pasta (One-Pot Weeknight Dinner)
A deeply satisfying Italian-American classic that builds enormous flavour from humble ingredients. Good quality pork sausages are browned until caramelised, then simmered with crushed tomatoes, garlic, and aromatics into a rich, hearty ragù-style sauce. Tossed with rigatoni and finished with Parmesan and fresh basil, this is the pasta dinner that consistently gets requested again and again.
All 15 recipes in this collection
- Sheet Pan Sausage and Vegetables
- Spanish Rice with Chorizo (One Pan Dinner Under £5)
- Sausage and Tomato Pasta (One-Pot Weeknight Dinner)
- Classic Pork and Cabbage Dumplings (Jiaozi)
- Juicy Pork Tenderloin with Garlic Sauce
- Lasagna Bolognese
- Slow-Cooked Pork Carnitas (Oven Method)
- Authentic Spaghetti Carbonara (No Cream, Traditional Method)
- Tacos al Pastor
- Dan Dan Noodles (Spicy Sichuan Style)
- Full English Breakfast (Classic Cooked Breakfast Recipe)
- Pozole Rojo (Hominy Pork Stew)
- Char Siu BBQ Pork with Jasmine Rice
- Lion’s Head Meatballs (Shanghai Style)
- Classic French Cassoulet
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Cooking with Pork
Pork shows up in more of the world's great dishes than almost any other meat: slow-braised carnitas and pozole in Mexico, char siu, dumplings and lion's head meatballs in China, cassoulet in France, carbonara in Italy and the full English breakfast. This collection covers all of those, plus quick sausage dinners for weeknights.
Cuts matter more with pork than most meats. Lean cuts like tenderloin cook fast and dry out if pushed past 63°C (145°F); shoulder needs long, slow cooking to turn tender. Each recipe names the cut, the timing and the doneness cue, with step-by-step instructions and per-serving nutrition.
Frequently Asked Questions
What temperature should pork be cooked to?
Whole cuts like tenderloin and chops are safe at 63°C (145°F) with a 3-minute rest; ground pork and sausages need 71°C (160°F). Each recipe gives its own doneness cue.
Which cut should I use for slow cooking?
Shoulder (also sold as butt) has the fat and connective tissue that break down over long cooking. Lean tenderloin is for quick cooking.
Are there quick pork recipes for weeknights?
Yes. The sausage pasta, sheet pan sausage and chorizo rice are one-pan dinners; filter by Quick for the fastest.
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