Roast Pork with Crispy Crackling

by Martin

in Pork Recipes

roast pork with crispy crackling

When you talk about roast dinners, it is hard to resist tender roast pork with crispy crackling. Serves 4-6.

Ingredients

  • 3 lb of piece pork
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 3 sprigs of rosemary
  • 6 garlic cloves, unpeeled
  • 2 lb of potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks

Cooking Instructions

Preheat the oven to 425 ° F (220 ° C).

Pat the pork dry with paper towels and rub the scored skin thoroughly with salt. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper.

Place the pork, skin side up, in a baking tin and tuck the rosemary and garlic underneath. Roast for 20 minutes.

Reduce the heat to 350 ° F (180 ° C) and continue to cook for 1 hour.

Add the potatoes to the baking tin and cook, turning them occasionally, for an additional 1 hour, or until the potatoes are tender inside and crisp on the outside. Test if the pork is cooked by inserting a sharp knife into the center of the meat. Juice should run clear.

When cooked remove the pork from the oven, cut away the crackling. Cover the meat and potatoes with foil and let it rest for about 10 minutes.

You can make gravy to pour over the pork using the pan juices. Apple sauce also goes really well with roast pork.

Related Recipes:

  1. Sweet And Sour Pork Roast
  2. Roast Chicken
  3. Roast Chicken with Garlic, Apple and Cider
  4. Golden Baked Pork Chops
  5. Roasted Leg of Lamb

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

Rachelle August 25, 2010 at 2:03 pm

Hello,
This recipe sounds very good but I was wondering if water in teh bottom of the pan might have been forgotten or have I been cooking porc wrong for all this time??

Doris Clarke December 13, 2011 at 7:18 am

This recipe sounds really good! I was wondering if you can serve cranberry sauce instead of apple sauce.

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