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Roasted Pork Chop With Pineapple Sambal

Name: Roasted Pork Chop With Pineapple Sambal
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 3 shallots, peeled; 1 bulb garlic, peeled; 25g fresh ginger, roughly chopped; 2 lemongrass stalks, white part only, roughly chopped; 25g palm sugar; 1 tbsp tamarind paste; ¼ fresh pineapple, roughly chopped; 25g chilli flakes; 2 tbsp fish sauce; 60ml grapeseed oil; 60ml grapeseed oil, for frying; 2 cups finely diced fresh pineapple; reserved Sambal paste; 1 pork rack (4 ribs); salt, to taste; 1 whole radicchio; Reserved Pineapple Sambal; salt, to taste; 1kg chicken wings; 1 red onion, peeled and roughly chopped; 1 brown onion, peeled and roughly chopped; 1 stick celery, roughly chopped; 1 carrot, roughly chopped; 1 litre chicken stock; Pineapple Sambal; salt and pepper, to taste; 1 bunch spring onion, greens only, roughly chopped; 3 makrut lime leaves; ½ cup grapeseed oil; 1 tsp salt

MasterChef Australia

30 Jun 2026

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Components

Ingredients

Season

Ingredients

Pineapple Sambal

3shallots, peeled

1 bulbgarlic, peeled

25gfresh ginger, roughly chopped

2lemongrass stalks, white part only, roughly chopped

25gpalm sugar

1 tbsptamarind paste

¼fresh pineapple, roughly chopped

25gchilli flakes

2 tbspfish sauce

60mlgrapeseed oil

60mlgrapeseed oil, for frying

2 cupsfinely diced fresh pineapple

Marinaded Pork Chop

reserved Sambal paste

1pork rack (4 ribs)

salt, to taste

Charred Radicchio

1whole radicchio

Reserved Pineapple Sambal

salt, to taste

Chicken Jus

1kgchicken wings

1red onion, peeled and roughly chopped

1brown onion, peeled and roughly chopped

1 stickcelery, roughly chopped

1carrot, roughly chopped

1 litrechicken stock

Pineapple Sambal

salt and pepper, to taste

Spring Onion and Makrut Lime Oil

1 bunchspring onion, greens only, roughly chopped

3makrut lime leaves

½ cupgrapeseed oil

1 tspsalt

Method

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Recipe by a MasterChef Australia contestant, Season 18. Originally published by Network 10 on 30 Jun 2026.

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