Blackened Pork Chops on a Mango Salsa with Plantain Crisps - recipes meat

Ingredients

• 6 pork chops
• 1 tbsp oregano, dried
• 1 tbsp thyme, dried
• 2 tsp cayenne pepper
• 2 tsp smoked or mild paprika
• 2 tsp garlic, ground
• 2 tsp freshly ground pepper
• 2 tsp maldon salt
• 1 tbsp maple syrup
• 2 tsp walnut oil
• 1 mango, peeled and diced into small cubes
• 3 spring onions, finely chopped
• 1/2 a cucumber, finely chopped into cubes (around the same quantity as the mango)
• 2 large red chillies, deseeded and finely chopped
• 3 tbsp coriander, leaves and stem finely chopped
• 3 tbsp mint leaves, roughly chopped
• 2 tbsp caster sugar
• 2 tsp maldon salt, crushed
• juice of 1 lime
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 2 large green plantains, peeled and sliced as thinly as possible length ways
• oil for deep frying
• pinch paprika
• maldon salt and freshly ground pepper