Recipe Pork Leg Roast

With a paring knife score the skin or fat to make a diamond shaped pattern.

Recipe pork leg roast. Score the pork leg rind thinly with a stanley knife or thin bladed sharp knife. This recipe really requires a good thermometer either a 10 instant read type or even better the type that pierces the meat and stays in place while connected to an outside the oven monitor. Traditional very tender roast leg pork and lovely crackling.

The secret s within the slow roasting. 1 4 cup 60 ml apple cider. Season the roast liberally with salt making sure it s salted all over.

Slow cook the leg for 3 5 hours or until the meat is easily pulled apart. Preheat the oven to 220ºc gas mark 7. Place your roasting pan onto the top oven rack.

1 cup brown 240 ml sugar. Keep water within the pan therefore it doesn t dry up so that you can baste the pork leg although it cooks. Place the pork skin side up in a roasting tray and place it in the preheated oven.

This is the best and most basic way to ensure a juicy perfectly cooked pork roast every time. Preheat oven to 220 c. 1 leg of pork roughly ten poundsor4 5 kg.

Roast your pork leg at 465 f 241 c for 25 minutes. Sprinkle with the salt and rub it into the skin. Immediately before cooking dry the pork rind thoroughly with kitchen paper then brush or rub with the oil.