Lunch: Pork and Sweet Potato Harvest Supper

Savor a thirty-minute skillet meal with favorite apples, pork, sweet potatoes and yes, maple syrup!

This recipe includes superfoods such as:

Apples

Health benefits of Pork and Sweet Potato Harvest Supper

Apples will improve your body's sensitivity to insulin (Reference: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/27/1/281.full)

Ingredients

2 tablespoons margarine or butter
1 lb. boneless pork, cut into thin bite-sized strips
3 cups cut (1-inch pieces) cabbage
2 medium or 1 large dark-orange sweet potato, peeled, halved and sliced (3 cups)
2 medium apples, peeled, sliced
1 teaspoon Caribbean or Jamaican jerk seasoning
1/2 cup maple-flavored syrup

Instructions

Melt margarine in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add pork; cook and stir 5 to 7 minutes or until lightly browned and no longer pink in center.
Reduce heat to medium. Add cabbage, sweet potatoes, apples and jerk seasoning; stir gently to mix. Cover; cook 8 to 10 minutes or until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally. Add syrup; stir gently to mix.