Ingredients:Â
1 x 2.25 kg/ 5lb Pork loin (Boneless & with rind on)
Cooking oil
Salt & Pepper
2 sticks of celery
2 carrots
1 onion
½ Swede
For Stuffing
Pinch of Salt
140g/ 5oz Bread crumbs
2 onions chopped
225g /8oz Pork sausagemeat
1 large cooking apple peeled and chopped
85g/ 3oz Raisins
1 dessertspoon of chopped fresh rosemary
Method:
- Pre-heat oven 180ºC/Gas 4/350ºF
- Roughly chop root vegetables and 1 onion
- Pat skin of pork dry and deeply score every 25mm
- Pour oil on skin and rub into the skin
- Generously season with salt and rub into skin
- Place a little oil into the pan and heat until hot, add vegetables to form a layer on the bottom of the pan.
- Place meat onto vegetables
- Allow to cook for 1 hour then baste with meat juices
- To prepare stuffing, add all remaining ingredients together and mix thoroughly. Form stuffing into balls.
- Cook pork for a further 45 minutes then add the stuffing
- Place into the roasting pan, with the meat, 50 minutes before the end of cooking.
- Baste all of the ingredients every 20 minutes
- Remove the stuffing from the pan and allow to rest in a warm serving dish
- Remove joint from the oven and allow to rest for 20 minutes.
- While the meat is resting, make gravy, by adding pork or chicken stock to the pan, simmer for 20 minutes, thicken to required consistency, add a knob of butter last minute and stir in well, this will give the gravy a nice sheen.
- Serve with roasted potatoes, buttered spring greens or kale and carrots sautéed in orange.