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Salt & vinegar roast pork with potatoes

Salt & vinegar roast pork with potatoes served in a roasting dish

Salt & vinegar roast pork with potatoes

Name: Salt & vinegar roast pork with potatoes
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 4 h 30 min
Total time: 5 h
Yield: Serves 8-10
Ingredients: 3kg boned and rolled pork shoulder skin scored; 200g salt; 100g caster sugar; 300ml cider vinegar; 3 tbsp dried sage; 1 tsp dried thyme; 2kg Maris Piper or King Edward potatoes, peeled and finely sliced – a mandoline is good for this; 10 garlic cloves thinly sliced; 3 onions sliced; 1 tbsp picked thyme leaves; 500ml chicken stock

Tom Kerridge

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Serves 8-10

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Prep: 30 mins

Cook: 4 hrs and 30 mins

Plus resting and overnight brining

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What is better than roast pork with crackling for Sunday lunch? Our salt and vinegar brine helps to make it extra crunchy, as well as delivering loads of flavour

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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3kg boned and rolled pork shoulder

skin scored

For the brine

200g salt
100g caster sugar
300ml cider vinegar
3 tbsp dried sage
1 tsp dried thyme

For the potatoes

2kg Maris Piper

or King Edward potatoes, peeled and finely sliced – a mandoline is good for this
10 garlic cloves

thinly sliced
3 onions

sliced
1 tbsp picked thyme leaves
500ml chicken stock

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Nutrition: Per serving (10)

kcal696
fat33g
saturates11g
carbs40g
sugars9g
fibre4g
protein58g
salt15.6g

Method

step 1

The day before roasting, mix the salt, sugar, vinegar, sage and thyme in a large mixing bowl, then roll the pork in the brine, cover and chill overnight, or for up to 24 hrs.
step 2

Heat oven to 140C/120C fan/gas 1. Tip the potatoes, garlic, onions and thyme into a large roasting tin and toss together with some cracked black pepper, then pack down with your hands and pour over the stock. Remove the pork from the fridge, pat dry with kitchen paper and sit it skin-side up in the middle of the potatoes. Roast for 4 hrs, pushing the potatoes down occasionally so they don’t burn.
step 3

If you’re happy with the crackling, leave to rest for 15 mins. If not, sit the pork on a shallow roasting tray and turn the oven up to 220C/ 200C fan/gas 7 and roast for 20 mins more or until the skin is crisp, then leave to rest for 10 mins. Check your potatoes – if they are swimming in pork juices, pour some off. Carve the pork and serve with the potatoes, rhubarb compote and stir-fried cumin carrots.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2019

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