Recipe: Pork Schnitzel With Fennel Slaw & Potatoes

Another recipe for our Masterchef recipe collection...

Serves: 4

Preparation: 15 mins

Cooking: 15 mins

1kg chat potatoes, quartered

1/4 cup finely chopped flat-leaf parsley

210g (3 cups) fresh breadcrumbs

2 tbs lemon zest, plus lemon wedges, to serve

2 cloves garlic, crushed

50g (1/2 cup) plain flour

1 egg, lightly beaten

4 x 150g pork leg steaks

vegetable oil, to shallow fry

Fennel Slaw

1 small fennel, thinly sliced

2 carrots, grated

75g (1/4 cup) Mayonnaise

1. Cook potatoes in a large saucepan of boiling salted water until tender. Drain, toss with 1 tbs parsley and keep warm.
2. To make fennel slaw, combine all ingredients in a bowl.
3. Combine breadcrumbs, lemon zest, remaining parsley and garlic in a shallow bowl and season with salt and pepper. Place flour and egg in separate shallow bowls. Dust pork with flour, shake of excess then dip in egg and coat in the breadcrumb mixture.
4. Heat 1cm oil in a large frying pan over medium heat and cook pork, in 2 batches for 2 minutes each side or until golden and cooked through. Drain on paper towel.
5. Serve schnitzel with fennel slaw, potatoes and lemon wedges.