Ingredients
- 1 onion – finely diced
- 4 cloves of garlic crushed
- 1 litre of chicken stock
- 1 litre of water
- 1 pork hock
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon salt and cracked pepper
- 1 bunch silverbeet
- ½ cup dried red lentils
- 2 teaspoons chilli flakes
- Lemon to serve
- Flat leaf parsley
Pork Hock Soup with Silverbeet

Method
- Remove the skin from the pork hock by running a sharp knife under the skin, pulling it back as you go.
- Place the hock in a pot with the garlic, stock, water, bay leaf and salt and pepper and simmer for 2 hours.
- Remove the pork and add in the silverbeet, red lentils and chilli flakes.
- Continue to simmer for a further 15 minutes. While that simmers, remove the pork from the bones with a fork, keeping it in its natural formed chunks.
- Add back boneless pork into the soup. Season to taste.
- Serve with a squeeze of lemon and some fresh flat leaf parsley.