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Recipe
Difficulty
Medium
Prep time
30 minutes
Cook time
4 - 4.5 hours
Serves
6 - 8
Ingredients:
Pork:
2 kg piece pork shoulder
3 Tablespoons oil
3 teaspoon salt
30 oz tin black doris plums (save 5.3 oz for sauce, use the rest for pork)
1 cinnamon stick
6 star anise
15 juniper berries
4 gloves garlic, halved
2 thumbs fresh ginger, halved
Ground black pepper
1 red onion, sliced
1 ½ cups water
Plum sauce:
2.6 oz Westgold butter
5.3 oz black doris plums, pureed
2 cinnamon stick
4 star anise
10 juniper berries
1 thumb ginger
1 clove garlic
1/2 cup water
2 Tablespoons brown sugar
Salt and pepper
Salad:
3 carrots, peeled
8.8 oz bag mung bean sprouts
¼ red cabbage
2-3 sticks celery
2 teaspoons fresh ginger, finely chopped
Handful picked fresh coriander leaves
1 red chilli, thinly sliced
3.5 oz toasted chopped hazelnuts
2 Tablespoons toasted sesame seeds
Method:
Pork:
Preheat oven to 430°F. Pat pork dry with paper towels (if time allows, leave the pork uncovered overnight in the fridge to dry out the skin for best crackling results) and score the skin with a sharp knife into 0.78" by 1.6" rectangles. Rub the oil and salt into the skin. Place in a roasting dish and put on a high shelf in the oven for 20-30 mins until skin starts to bubble. Remove from the oven and lower temperature to 280°F. To the roasting dish add all the plum juice and the rest of the plums (saving 5.3 oz for the sauce) water, spices, garlic and onion. Cover with double layer of tin foil and cook for 3 1/2 to 4 hours. Remove from the oven, uncover and leave until luke warm.
Plum sauce:
Put water, sugar and spices into saucepan, cover and simmer for
30 mins. Remove spices and add remaining pureed plums and simmer 5-10 minutes. Remove from the heat and whisk in the butter a little at a time until fully incorporated. Check the flavour and season if required. Keep warm.
Salad:
Using a mandolin (or sharp knife) slice carrots into fine matchsticks, finely slice red cabbage and place in a large bowl with the sprouts, celery, ginger and coriander. Toss to combine. Pile salad onto serving platter.
To finish:
Remove the crackling and cut into pieces. Tear the pork into chunks and pile into salad and add crackling pieces. Sprinkle over chilli, hazelnuts and sesame seeds. Pour the sauce into a jug and serve.
Chefs tip: For the crispiest, crunchiest crackling, we recommend buying your pork on a tray with wrap instead of buying it vacuum packed. Meat that is vacuum packed will retain too much moisture so you won’t get much crackle.
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