Roast Pork With Sage Double Onion Stuffing Baked Apples Roasties Recipes

ROAST PORK WITH SAGE & DOUBLE ONION STUFFING, BAKED APPLES & ROASTIES

Steps:

• If you have time, season the pork skin the day before with salt, then put in the fridge, uncovered. If you want to get ahead, tip the potatoes into a large pan of cold, salted water, bring to the boil and simmer gently for about 8-10 mins until the potatoes are cooked all the way through but not falling apart. Gently drain the potatoes in a colander, but don't shake them or ruffle them up - just leave them to drain and cool. Put them in the fridge, uncovered, until ready to roast.
• To make the stuffing, heat the butter in a saucepan and cook the onion for 10 mins until soft and golden. Tip the onions into a bowl with the all the other ingredients and season with lots of black pepper. Scrunch everything together with your hands and chill until needed.
• To stuff the pork, get a long-bladed knife like a carving knife and create a large pocket between the eye of the meat and the bones. Turn the blade of the knife to open up the cavity. You might need to go in at both ends. Use your fingers to push in as much of the stuffing as you possibly can, pushing it right down into the cavity.
• Heat the oven to 240C/220C fan/gas 9. If you haven't already parboiled the potatoes, do so now (see step 1). Sit the pork in a shallow roasting tin (season if you haven't done it the day before), drizzle the skin liberally with sunflower oil and put it in the oven for 20 mins. Lower the heat to 200C/180C/gas 6 and continue to roast the pork for 1 hr, basting the skin occasionally with the fat from the tin. Remove the tin from the oven and you should have a nice layer of fat in the bottom. Baste the pork again, then carefully pour the fat into another roasting tin and add the potatoes. Use a spatula to turn them in the fat so they are completely coated and put back in the oven for 40 mins, by which time the pork skin should have crackled and the potatoes begun to turn golden. Transfer the pork to a board, uncovered, and leave to rest for 20 mins.
• While the pork is resting, turn the potatoes, then score a line around each apple and sit them in the sticky pork tin. Dot them with half the butter and roast for 20 mins until they are soft. By then, the potatoes should be golden too.
• Heat the remaining butter in a pan until sizzling and fry the sage leaves, turning, until crisp, then transfer to a piece of kitchen paper to drain. To serve, arrange the potatoes and apples around the pork and scatter with the crispy sage leaves. Carve the pork into chops.

ROAST LOIN OF PORK WITH APPLE AND SAGE STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 7, 220'C (425'F) To make the stuffing, melt the butter in a frying pan over a medium heat. Add the onion and sauté for 3-4 minutes until softened but not coloured. Then add the garlic and apple and cook for another couple of minutes. Transfer to a bowl and allow to cool before adding in the herbs, nuts, lemon rind and juice, breadcrumbs and a little salt and pepper. Place the joint fat side down on a chopping board. Place the stuffing down the centre. Roll the tie with string, then season. Spread the chopped vegetables over the base of a roasting tin and place the pork joint on top. Drizzle over a little olive oil and place in the oven. After 30 minutes turn the heat down to Gas Mark 4, 180'C (350'F). Add the wine and approx. 100mls water to the pan and continue to cook the pork for another 1 1/2 hours (allow 30 minutes per 1/2kg). Top up with water if it dries out. When cooked, remove the pork from the oven, transfer to a chopping board or serving platter and cover loosely with foil. Allow to rest for 10-15 minutes. Discard the vegetables from the roasting tin and boil up the juices. Slice the pork and serve it with the pan juices, baked potatoes, carrots, peas and apple sauce. To make the apple sauce, simply peel, core and chop 500g bramley apples and add to a saucepan along with a tablesp. caster sugar, a knob of butter and 150ml water. Allow to simmer gently for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until very soft. Taste before a serving and add a little more sugar if needed.

ROAST LOIN OF PORK WITH SAGE & ONION STUFFING & GRAVY

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a saucepan and cook the onion for 5 mins until soft. Remove from the heat. Once cool, transfer to a bowl and mix in sage, breadcrumbs, sausage meat and some seasoning.
• Untie the pork and score the skin well with a sharp knife. Cut down the length of the meat, then open out like a book so you can stuff the sausage meat inside. Close back up to resemble original shape and tie at intervals with string to hold it together. Weigh so you know how long it will need to cook for. This can be done ahead; chill until needed.
• Heat oven to 240C/220C fan/gas 9. Rub the joint all over with salt and pepper and place in a roasting tray. Cook for 25 mins, then turn to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and cook for 20 mins per 450g/1lb. Remove, and check it's cooked through: any juices that run out should be clear. Transfer to a dish, then cover with foil to rest while you make the gravy.
• Spoon most of the fat out the tray, leaving the meat juices. Place tray on the hob or transfer juices to a frying pan. Stir in the flour for 1 min followed by the stock and cider, and bubble for a few mins. Strain into a jug. Serve the pork sliced, with the crackling, potatoes, gravy and veg.

ROAST PORK WITH ONION STUFFING

Steps:

• Rub roast with oil. Combine salt, thyme and pepper; sprinkle over roast. Place roast in a shallow baking pan. Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 2 to 2-1/2 hours or until a thermometer reads 160°. Meanwhile, in a skillet, saute onions in butter for 8-10 minutes or until tender. Stir in flour, lemon juice, bouillon, salt, nutmeg and pepper; add water. Cook over medium heat for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Cut roast almost all the way through into 3/8-in. slices. Spoon 1 tablespoon of stuffing between each slice. Spoon remaining stuffing over roast. Bake, uncovered, at 325° for 30 minutes If desired, thicken pan juices to make gravy.

ROAST LOIN OF PORK WITH SAGE, ONION, POTATO AND APPLE STUFF

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 230c/450f/Gas 8. 1 Take the skin from the pork and dry assiduously with a paper towel. Lay in a shallow baking dish or tray, scored- side up, and rub generously with salt. Roast all on its own for about 20 minutes until very crisp. 2 Remove from the oven and drain off the fat (which could be used to make the stuffing, if you havent already done it). 3 Unless you intend to make the stuffing with the pork fat from the crackling, make the stuffing while the crackling is cooking. 4 Open out your boned loin of pork and spread the stuffing thickly over the inside, or if the butcher has cut a pocket into it, stuff the stuffing into that. 5 Either way, you wont need it all. Ask someone to help you carefully tie the loin up with the stuffing inside, using several lengths of string, so that it forms a nice roundish joint. 6 Dont worry if some of the stuffing oozes out - pat back in any that will fit easily and return the rest to the bowl. 7 Weigh the joint and calculate the cooking time as follows: allow 33 minutes per 500g or 30 minutes per lb, plus another 30 minutes extra. 8 Sit the joint on a rack over a roasting tin. Place in the oven, reduce the heat to 180c/350f/Gas 4 and roast for the remainder of the cooking time. 9 Once cooked, let the joint rest for 20-30 minutes before serving. Pop the crackling back in the oven for 10 minutes to heat through. Serve the pork and crackling with apple sauce. Recipe by: Sophie Grigsons Herbs