Food Wars Recipes - "Gotcha" Roast Pork (Take 2)

The third season of Shokugeki no Soma has recently aired. I have not attempted any new recipes, but I do have a second attempt at the first dish that Soma presented to us: The "Gotcha" Roast Pork (Take 2)!!

Also, I realised I have not written a proper recipe for this dish, so here it is:

The Ingredients:

• 2 large Russet potatoes (boiled and mashed)
• 1 large (or 3 small) Eryngii mushrooms, diced into small cubes
• 1 large onion, finely chopped
• A few cloves of garlic, chopped
• Rosemary (fresh or dried)
• Salt to taste
• Lots of BACON!!!

You can also refer to the first post I made about this dish for the anime screenshots on how it was cooked by Soma.

The steps:

1. If you haven't already, boil the potatoes (with the skins on) until they're soft. When they're done, peel the skin off. 
2. Sauté the chopped onions and mushrooms in butter. You can add garlic at the beginning or near the end of frying depending on how strong you want the garlic to taste.



Sizzle wizzle



3. Mash the potatoes and add some rosemary and salt to taste. (I used dried rosemary because I didn't have fresh ones.) Knead the sautéed onions and mushrooms into the mashed potato.



It looks like a complete dish, actually.



It looks kinda pretty!



4. Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
5. Wrap the bacon tightly around the mashed potato mixture. Go wild, because the bacon will shrink when it's cooked.



I used two types of bacon.



Toothpicks, because I still don't have twine.



6. Bake the bacon-wrapped potato in the oven for 30 minutes or until the bacon is crispy.

For the sauce:

It's got blueberries!

1. You can use the same pan that's used to sauté the onions & mushrooms. Pour 1-1.5 cups of red wine into the pan and deglaze it.
2. Add butter, Shaoxing rice wine, and soy sauce to taste. (I also added some blueberries I happened to have at the time.)
3. Reduce the sauce.
4. Pour the sauce over the bacon-wrapped potato.

And it's done!

Yaay!

The result was, actually much better than I had expected! The blueberries made the sauce sweeter, and this sweetness goes well with the bacon and the potatoes. I'd say that the addition of the blueberries improved this dish a lot! Other than that, the dish is not bad. The potatoes weren't able to soak up the bacon juices since it wasn't as tightly packed as I could have made it (if I had used twine instead of toothpicks to hold them together).  Nevertheless this is a fun dish to make and eat.

The mashed potato soaked up a lot of the sauce though... I should've made more sauce.

This is definitely much better than my first attempt 2 years prior, though, I still need to adjust the amount of potatoes (or bacon) to use in this recipe so that there aren't any leftovers. XD;

Maybe if I had twine, I could stuff in more of the mashed potato mix.