Meat with Fruit

[flip_flop]

The thought of meat with fruit has always been a huge turn off for me - I was in a restaurant last Saturday and one of the items on the menu was roast pork belly (which is my favourite cut of meat) with baked plums and apricots.

I couldn't order it.

So, am I missing something by having this mental block?

[shoota]

You get lychees and bananas in a Kashmiri curry........and thats heaven!

[sandyRoe]

No apple sauce with pork? Or Cranberry sauce with the Christmas turkey?

[mccfluff]

i'm with you i'm not a big fan, esp with apricots and sultanas or raisens in rice blurgh

but duck with cherries or plum sauce is amazing and i do like lemon chicken.....

hmmmmm

[sandyRoe]

Or bits of pineapple on ham in those yukky pizzas?

[shoota]

But I must say I wouldn't want my plums roasted!

[FrillyPancake]

Gammon and Pineapple is bliss, Pannang Curry with dried coconut (or Korma) for that matter is good I think, Dried Apricots in Moroccan Lamb, all of these are lovely I think...!

[shoota]

Tomato's are fruits......

[Graham-W]

Pork seems to work well with many fruits.
Gammon and pineapple, Roast pork with apple sauce. I use an apricot jam glaze when doing roast pork. Crackling is gorgeous.
Duck also works well. Seems to be the fatty meats that gain from the acids in fruit.
Wouldn't fancy beef and fruit though.

[FrillyPancake]

Fillet Steak, chips and roasted tomatoes is a must - as they are a fruit not a vegetable, lol!

[flip_flop]

Nope, no apple sauce with pork, or cranberry with turkey or pineapple with gammon, or duck with orange - I just can't bring myself to eat it/order it.

[heathfield]

Baked beans with added chopped corned beef, curry powder, and sultanas! Yum!

[Traci66]

I can't get my head round the whole sweet and sour thing in cooking, if it's sweet it's a pudding. And no, I can't stand sweet and sour from the Chinese.

[Old_Geezer]

I can understand. I'm not phobic about it but see no reason to mix savoury main course and sweet dessert ingredients either. It's the sort of weird combination you try once in a while just to say you tried it, but it's not sensible combinations. One wouldn't want to choose it on a regular basis, it just doesn't work. I figure it's more to please the chef than the diner.

[bednobs]

i agree with you ff, but would extend it to add anything that has both sweet and savoury together - yeuch!

[237SJ]

I agree. I can`t stand sweet and savoury together and the tought of duck with apricots turns my stomach. If I have rice and it`s presented with raisins in, I have to pick them out. The only exception is citrus fruits which I think go quite well in some meat/fish dishes.

[rockyracoon]

I used to feel like that, but gammon without pineapple or pork without apple sauce? Although, I probably wouldn't order chicken with mango or something like that, I'd give that pork belly with plums and apricots a go.....I think.

[rockyracoon]

Baked beans with added chopped corned beef, curry powder, and sultanas! Yum!

bleurgh

[FredPuli43]

That 70s favourite of gammon with a slice of tinned pineapple on top?Yeurgh !
It might have worked with fresh pineapple, but I doubt it.