Mironton

As I was explaining in a previous post, my grand mother was really good at cooking leftover and that of meat in particular. I have kept the tradition and I cook once in a while some mironton. But I make often some variations from the original recipe. This time I didn’t use regular onion, but green onions with leaves. They are from Kujukuri, the northern part of Chiba by the ocean, and they are very soft and very sweet. I’ve used some already in some quiche and miso recipe, and I was really happy with the result. Using them in mironton kind of came naturally then. I simply used a bit of olive oil and vegetal oil mixed together. About 5 new potatoes, and a piece of pork filet diced. I cook everything in a pan at medium heat first then high heat, and add the green onions with leaves just halved. Stir once in a while until potatoes are done and onions are soft. That’s it.

Tribute to our grand mother’s mironton

Our grand mother was doing magic with left overs of meat, in particular porc filet. It would be used in the filling for stuffed vegetables, in cannelloni, or hachis parmentier for exemple. But she would also use them for “mironton”. Her mironton was just simple: onion, potatoes and chuncks of pork meat fried in oil and butter. It was definitely something I loved very much!!! Now her version may have been a little too rich for us now, so I kept the idea but slightly changed the recipe, but the main attributes remain. I replaced the onion by some Japanese mushrooms, and used only a little of olive oil. I cut in rough pieces the left over of the filet mignon and the potatoes (with the skin), and then simply cook them in a heated and olive oil greased pan until golden. The key is to cook until it’s almost burned, and then stir and repeat. It should for kind of blocks, golden and crispy, but soft inside. Add a bit of salt and pepper when serving.

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