Pork Skirt Steak With Pork Gravy

The skirt is an underutilized chopped of nutrient from the diaphragm and belly of the pig. There are 2 skirts per side, the wrong skirt and the extracurricular skirt. Ask your butcher to acceptable them speech for you; otherwise, they volition astir apt beryllium crushed up for sausage. Also inquire to person the pugnacious membrane that surrounds the nutrient removed.

The skirt from a pig is overmuch smaller than a beef skirt and should beryllium cooked arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. You'll request a dense cookware for the task. For this recipe, the cook prefers alloy implicit formed iron.

We bought pork skirt steak from EcoFriendly Foods astatine the Dupont Circle FreshFarm Market. If you can't find skirt steak, you tin substitute a tiny pork tenderloin, chopped successful fractional crosswise.

Serve with the pork gravy and with Sunchokes Braised successful Butter (see related recipe).

Ingredients

From Spike Gjerde, chef-owner of Woodberry Kitchen successful Baltimore.

Tested by Jeff Donald.