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Pork Brisoletts

4 servings

Ingredients

• 500 g coarse lean pork
• 125 g fresh back or belly fat
• 3 pcs eggs
• salt (a little)
• ground pepper (a little)
• chopped herbs (a little)
• lemon zest (a little)
• 1 upper cup grated breadcrumbs
• egg for breading (a little)
• grated breadcrumbs for breading (a little)
• butter (a little)

Instructions

1. Finely chop 500 g coarse, lean pork with 125 g fresh back or belly fat.
2. Mix with 3 eggs, salt, ground pepper, finely chopped herbs, lemon zest, and 1 upper cup of grated breadcrumbs.
3. Form the mixture into round, potato-sized balls, flatten them slightly, dip in beaten egg, then in grated breadcrumbs, and fry in butter for about 5 minutes until cooked through.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.