Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder With Pickled Onions Recipes

SLOW-ROASTED PORK SHOULDER

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F.
• In a food processor, combine the peppercorns, garlic, and cloves and puree. While the motor is running, drizzle in the oil until a paste is formed. Using a rubber spatula, scrape the garlic paste into a small bowl.
• Place the pork butt on a work surface and season all over generously with salt. Rub all over with the garlic paste. Place in an oven-safe roasting bag and close with a twist tie. Place in a large roasting pan, and cook until tender, about 5 hours.
• Remove roast from the oven. Slip the oven-roasting bag off the meat and discard. Transfer the cooking liquid to a medium saucepan. Skim the fat from the cooking liquid with a ladle or de-greaser. Bring to a boil, lower the heat, and simmer to thicken the juices slightly.
• Raise the oven to 400 degrees F. Return the pork, in the roasting pan, to the oven. Continue roasting, basting frequently with the simmering cooking liquid, until well-browned, about 30 minutes. If there is any cooking liquid left, pour it over the pork.
• Remove pork from the oven and let it rest at room temperature for 10 minutes. With the pork drippings you may make a vinegar sauce using this formula: for every 1/2 cup of drippings, whisk with 3 tablespoons vinegar and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Either carve the pork into thin slices, or, using 2 forks, pull into small pieces. Serve with the vinegar sauce on the side.

SLOW-ROAST PORK SHOULDER

Steps:

• In a small bowl, mix the treacle, cider vinegar, paprika, cumin, mustard powder and chilli powder until smooth. Using a sharp knife, make deep slashes in the skin of the pork shoulder to cut through the skin and fat layer, but not the meat. Place the joint, skin-side down, in a large dish and rub the spice paste into the meat (not the fat). Turn skin-side, cover tightly with cling film and put in the fridge overnight, or for 24 hrs to give the pork maximum flavour.
• Heat oven to 150C/130C fan/gas 2. Transfer the pork, skin-side up, to a deep roasting tin, rub 1 tbsp sea salt onto the skin and pour 500ml water into the bottom of the roasting tin. Cover tightly with foil and roast in the oven for 5 hrs.
• Remove the foil, turn up the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and cook for a further 1 hr 30 mins or until the pork is very tender and the skin has turned to crispy crackling.
• Once the pork is ready, take it out of the roasting tin, cover with foil and leave to rest. Pour the juices from the roasting tin into a jug and leave to separate. Pour off the fat layer and transfer the remaining juices to a large sauté pan. Simmer over a high heat, stirring, until reduced to a rich gravy.
• Once rested, cut the pork into pieces - it should pull apart with very little effort - and break the crackling into shards. Serve the pork and crackling with the gravy poured over and mustard mash, honey-roasted carrots and quick pickled red cabbage on the side (see goes well with below).

SLOW-ROASTED PORK SHOULDER WITH PICKLED ONIONS

Steps:

• Put a large skillet over medium heat and coat with the oil. When the oil is hot, add the fennel and onion. Cook and stir for 10 minutes, until the vegetables are soft. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
• In a mortar and pestle or spice grinder, combine the fennel seeds, coriander, red pepper flakes, chili powder, and cinnamon. Mash or buzz until you have a spice powder. Put the spice powder in a small bowl and mix in the salt and pepper.
• Put the pork, fat side up, in a roasting pan. Using a sharp knife, make small slits all over the surface of the meat. Rub the spice mixture all over the pork, inside and out, being sure to get in the incisions. Lift up the top flap and spoon the fennel and onion mixture inside the pork.
• Preheat the oven to 300°F.
• Pour in just enough water to film the bottom of the roasting pan. Cover the pan tightly with aluminum foil. Slow-roast the pork for 2 hours.
• Increase the oven temperature to 425°F and roast for another hour, until the meat is falling apart. Carefully transfer the pork to a serving platter, tent with foil, and allow to rest for 10 minutes. Serve the pork with some pickled onions on top, and chow down!

REALLY SLOW ROAST PORK SHOULDER WITH CRISPY, CRISPY CRACKLING AND GARLIC ROAST POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
• Grind the fennel seeds, peppercorns and salt in a spice grinder. Place the pork shoulder into a roasting pan and cut the rind into cross hatches. Rub the spice mixture into the meat and put it in the oven for 4 hours.
• Arrange the potatoes around and under the meat and put it back into the oven for 1 hour.
• Now add the garlic, shallots and carrots around the pork. If your roasting pan is not large enough to accommodate all the vegetables, place them in a separate roasting pan. Cook for 30 minutes, then add the pears. They don't need much cooking time and will disintegrate if cooked too long. Cook for another 30 minutes
• When the meat is tender and flakes with a fork, remove it and the vegetables and keep warm. This will give the pork time to rest and become more tender. If the pork rind is not crispy, put it under the broiler for a few minutes until it is really crunchy and crispy.
• To make the gravy, pour off all but 1 tablespoon of the fat from the roasting pan. Stir the flour into the roasting pan, add the wine, put the roasting pan onto a burner over medium-high heat and cook until the wine is reduced by half. If not using the wine, do this with the stock. Now add the stock and scrape off any bits of meat and vegetable on the bottom of the pan. Taste and add any seasoning if you think it needs it.
• If the gravy is too thin, make a paste in a bowl with 1 tablespoon and 1 tablespoon flour. Add some of the hot gravy to the small bowl and stir. Add this to the hot stock, stirring constantly and bring to a boil. The gravy will thicken slightly.
• If your gravy is too thick, just add a touch more stock. Serve the meat and vegetables with the gravy.
• This dish struggles to make it to the table as the family descends upon it while I am trying to finish the gravy! Use any leftovers for pork sandwiches with some crunchy pickle.

QUICK PORK SHOULDER WITH PICKLED ONIONS

Steps:

• Blend first 4 ingredients in blender until smooth.
• Heat oil in pressure cooker on medium-high heat. Add meat in batches; cook 4 min. or until evenly browned. Return all meat to pressure cooker; top with juice mixture.
• Lock pressure cooker lid in place. Cook on medium-high heat until pressure vent locks in place and regulator begins to rock gently. Reduce heat gradually to maintain slow steady rocking motion; cook 55 min. Remove from heat. Let stand 10 min. or until pressure vent drops. Meanwhile, add onions to saucepan of boiling water; cook 5 min.
• Drain onions; place in bowl. Add dressing; toss to coat. Remove regulator from pressure cooker, then lid. Remove meat from cooker; shred meat. Return to cooker; toss with sauce. Top tortillas with meat mixture and onions; roll up.

SLOW-ROASTED PORK SHOULDER WITH CARROTS, ONIONS, AND GARLIC

Steps:

• Combine 2 tbsp., salt and 2 teaspoons pepper in a small bowl and rub the mixture all over the pork. Put the pork, fat side up in a large roasting pan. Cover and refrigerate overnight or up to 3 days.
• Remove pork from the refrigerator and let sit at room temperature for 1 to 1 1/2 hours before cooking.
• Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat oven to 300 degrees. Uncover the pork and roast until tender everywhere but the very center when pierced with a fork, 4-4 1/2 hours. Add the onions, carrots, garlic, wine, and 1 cup water to the roasting pan and continue to roast, stirring the vegetables occasionally, until the pork is completely tender, about 1 hour more.
• Remove the roast from the oven and raise the oven termperature to 375 degrees. Using tongs, separate the pork into 8-10 large, rustic chunks and spread out on the pan. If most of the liquid has evaporated, add a splash more of water to the pan to create a little more juice. It shouldn't be soupy.
• Return the pork to the oven and continue to roast until nicely browned on the newly exposed surfaces, about 15 minutes.Remove the pan from the oven, transfer the meat and vegetables to a serving platter, and tent loosely with foil. Allow meat to rest for 20 minutes. Skim the excess fat from the juices and serve the juices with the vegetables and meat.

SLOW-ROASTED PORK SHOULDER AND ROASTED PORK STOCK

Steps:

• FOR THE ROAST:.
• Rinse pork and pat dry. Score skin in a crisscross diamond pattern, making 1/8-inch-deep cuts about 1 inch apart.
• In a mortar and pestle crush garlic, salt, seasoning, and pepper into a coarse paste. Rub all over roast, into score marks especially. Set roast, skin side up, on a rack in an oiled 9- by 13-inch roasting pan.
• Roast in a 450° oven until deep golden brown, 40 to 45 minutes.
• Remove pan from oven, scatter onion and carrot slices around pork. Pour 1 cup of the wine and 2 cups of the broth into pan. Baste pork with some of the pan juices. Reduce oven temperature to 225° and bake until a thermometer inserted through the center of thickest part at bone reads 170°, 8 to 9 hours.
• About 30 minutes before serving, transfer pork to a carving board. Cover pork loosely with foil and set in a warm place. Pour the remaining broth and wine into the roasting pan (drippings will be dark) and set on a burner over high heat. Bring to a boil, scraping up browned bits from bottom of pan. Boil, stirring occasionally, until liquid is reduced by about half, 7 to 10 minutes. Pour through a wire strainer set over a bowl, pressing on vegetables (reserve vegetables for the stock making); you should have 1 to 1 1/3 cups drippings. Skim off fat.
• Peel skin off roast and set aside for stock making. Slice meat across the grain and arrange on platter. Drizzle about a fourth of the pan juices over meat; serve remaining to add to taste.
• FOR THE STOCK:.
• Preheat oven to 400°.
• Remove the majority of the meat from the bone (be sure to leave some on, as well as any attached fatty parts you wouldn't eat), add to the roasting pan. Add in the reserved pork skin and cooked vegetables from making the roast along with the fresh onions, carrots.
• Roast in the oven for 20-30 minutes until the it gets a nice golden crisp to it.
• Place the bone, pan drippings and veggies in a stock pot, add in thyme, bay, garlic then cover with water by about an inch. Cover pot, then bring to boil, then reduce to a simmer for 8-9 hours. (yes, that's right).
• Remove from heat allowing to return to room temperature. Refrigerate overnight. Remove from fridge and skim off hardened white fat.
• At this point the stock will be almost gelatinous, so you will have to warm the stock a little before you can strain it. Strain thru mesh strainer, throw out solids. You now have quite possibly the best pork stock you will ever have.