Who does not like a roast this time of year?
Personally, I don’t care if it is boiling hot, or bitterly cold, but I love the taste of falling apart pork, crispy crackling, baked sweet and normal potatoes, carrots, all topped with a delicious apple sauce.
This recipe would serve about four people. It depends on size of the pork really. This recipe used about a one kilo piece of pork belly. YUM!
But enough about that, lets start on the crackling!
First of all. preheat your oven to 220°C. This allows time for the oven to heat up enough to crisp-en the skin.
Take a sharp knife, and score the pork skin at about one centimetre intervals. Rub the skin with olive oil and a generous amount of sea salt. This helps the skin to crisp up and flavour and turn to that wonderful crackling that is so tasty!
Pop your pork into the oven for 30 minutes. At this high heat it allows the skin to crisp up before the pork meat cooks.
Reduce the heat to 200°C and cook for another 10 to 20 minutes, until the pork is just cooked through and the skin is golden, puffed and crispy.
As for your veggies, cut them up into equal size pieces, and put them into another tray. Drizzle some oil over them and a sprinkling of salt. Toss to coat, and bake for the last 20 to 30 minutes of the pork’s cooking time. Or to make an even more tasty lot of veggies, you can transfer the pork to your veggie tray for the remainder of the cooking!
To add some extra flavour to the dish, you could also throw in some garlic and rosemary. They work wonders!
So enjoy your melt in the mouth pork with crunchy crackling!
