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Herb roast pork with mashed potatoes and green beans

An everyday dish for 2, ready in 120 minutes, around $2.84 a serving. People actually plan it with Popotam.

120mintotal
≈ $2.84a serving
751kcalper serving
54gof protein
Freezes well
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Step-by-step recipe

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  1. Preheat the oven

    Turn the oven on to 200 °C (convection if you have it). Take the roast out of the fridge so it's not ice cold when it goes in.

  2. Prep the herbs

    Chop the garlic and half the parsley very fine. Mix them with the olive oil, salt and pepper.

  3. Season the roast

    Set the roast in the baking dish and rub it all over with the herb mix. Add 1 tbsp of water to the bottom of the dish.

  4. Roast it

    Roast at 200 °C for 15 min, then lower to 180 °C and keep going about 45 min, until it hits 70 °C inside with no pink. Baste with the juices halfway through.

    Tip · Don't rely on color alone, poke a thermometer into the center of the meat: at least 70 °C, with no pink. If you don't have one, the juices running out should be clear.

  5. Cook the potatoes

    Peel the potatoes and cut them into chunks. Put them in a saucepan of cold salted water, bring to a boil and cook 20 min, until a knife slides in with no resistance.

  6. Drain the potatoes

    Drain the potatoes and put them back in their saucepan with the lid on, off the heat, to keep them warm.

  7. Cook the green beans

    Trim the green beans. Drop them into the second saucepan of salted boiling water and cook 10 to 12 min, they should stay a little crunchy. Drain them.

  8. Mash

    Mash the potatoes with the butter, then add the warm milk little by little. Stir with the spatula and season with salt and pepper.

    Tip · Warm the milk before adding it for smooth mashed potatoes, and never blend the potatoes, they'd turn gluey.

  9. Rest and slice

    Take out the roast, cover it with foil and let it rest 10 min. Slice it and spoon the pan juices over it.

  10. Plate up

    Chop the rest of the parsley. Serve the roast slices with the mash and green beans, then sprinkle with parsley.

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How many calories in a serving?

One serving has about 751 kcal. 27% comes from carbs, 29% from protein and 41% from fat.

50 gCarbs
54 gProtein
34 gFat
Per serving (the dish for 2, divided by 2)
Energy751 kcal
Protein54.2 g
Carbs50.1 g
of which sugars8.7 g
Fat34.4 g
of which saturated fat18.4 g
Fiber9.4 g
Salt0.4 g

Worked out ingredient by ingredient with the ANSES Ciqual 2025 table, never written by an AI. It's an estimate: veggie sizes and brands make the numbers vary.

How much does it cost?

About $2.84 a serving, adding up the average prices of the ingredients you need to buy.

≈ $5.67for 2 people
≈ $2.84a serving

Pantry salt, oil and spices aren't counted. Your store and your brands will move the total, but the ballpark is right.

How long does it keep?

2 days in the fridge, in a closed container, once cooled within two hours. After that, into the freezer it goes.

2 daysin the fridge
Yesin the freezer, thaw it in the fridge the day before

Times Popotam uses for meal prep, based on ANSES guidance, rounded down. The details: how long cooked dishes keep.

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