Slow roasted pork shoulder with peaches and bacon
<p>Called Pulled Pork in the US of A. This is one of the best sunday roast recipes I know.</p>
<p>Preheat your oven to 200ºC</p>
<p>1. First, score the skin of the pork in a criss-cross pattern every 1cm/½ inch with a sharp knife, trying not to cut into the meat itself. Rub in olive oil and then salt.</p>
<p>2. Make a thyme butter by finely chopping about 5 sprigs of thyme and mix into the butter.</p>
<p>3. Add the sliced leeks, carrots and onions along with the garlic and chillis. drizzle with olive oil and season well.</p>
<p>4. Cut a pocket into the side of the pork, rub in the thyme butter, then push in three or four peach halves. Lay the bacon rashers across the underside of the pork, and then tie the pork with three strands of cooking string.</p>
<p>5. Put the vegetables in the middle of a high-sided roasting tray and then rest the meat on top of the vegetables. Cook in the preheated oven for 20 - 30 minutes to start the skin crisping up.</p>
<p>6. Remove the meat from the oven, turning the heat down to 150ºC.</p>
<p>7. Add 750ml of white wine into the bottom of the roasting tray, and then cover the roasting tray with tin foil, sealing it all around the edges.</p>
<p>8. Cook for 5 hours. Then remove the pork from the oven. Gently cut away the crackling (which won't be very crackly just yet!!). Then put pork on a carving tray and cover with tin foil and then a tea towel.</p>
<p>[NOTE: I normally but the roast potatoes in the oven about 30-40 minutes before the pork is ready.]</p>
<p>9. Put the crackling on a roasting tin and put back into the oven at 200ºC for about 10 minutes to get it nice and crackly.</p>
<p>10. Put the roasting tray with the vegetables in it on the stove top under a gentle heat. Add 2 tablespoons of plain flour and cook that off of a couple of minutes.</p>
<p>11. Gradually add 1 l of boiled water stirring in well in stages. about 250 ml in us a popatoes masher to break the vegetables up.</p>
<p>12. Now sieve the gravy into a pan .. and your gravy is ready</p>
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