BBC Food - Recipes - Braised Moorish-style pigs' cheeks with picada and garlic-cumin potatoes

Ingredients

• 1-2 tbsp olive oil , for frying
• 750g/1lb 10oz pigs' cheeks, preferably Ibérico pork or Gloucestershire Old Spot, trimmed of fat and sinew
• 1 onion , chopped
• 1 carrot , chopped
• 4 garlic cloves, chopped
• ½ tsp cumin seeds
• 1 tsp smoked paprika
• 2 tsp raisins
• 200ml/7fl oz oloroso sherry
• 750ml/1¼ pints good-quality beef or dark- chicken stock
• 25g/1oz bitter chocolate
• 700g/1lb 8oz waxy potatoes such as Desirée potatoes, peeled, cut into cubes
• 1 tbsp olive oil , for frying
• 3 garlic cloves, finely sliced
• 1 tsp crushed cumin seeds
• 125g/4½oz softened unsalted butter
• 1 slice crusty white bread , crusts removed, cut into chunks
• 70g/2½oz blanched almonds , preferably Spanish
• 1 tsp fresh thyme leaves
• ½ tsp grated orange zest
• small handful fresh flatleaf parsley leaves
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper