Womens Thoughts

Not everyone likes to follow recipes and with this in mind, here is a recipe that you can alter and add ingredients that suit your own taste buds! Slow roasted to bring out the flavours and to produce tender meat.

Ingredients

A piece of belly pork to suit your needs. The ingredients below were sufficient for 3 people.

2 Apples, peeled and sliced into 8 pieces

1/2 Head of Celery cut into 2cm pieces

1 Onion roughly chopped

1 Leek, sliced into 2cm pieces

Method

Slice the skin on the pork into 1cm strips.

Place the pork on top of the prepared vegetables in a roasting tin.

Drizzle oil over and then add herbs. Sage goes well with pork.

Place in a hot oven, 200c approx, for about 30 minutes. Then turn the oven down or use the simmering oven in a range/aga type cooker. Cover the roasting pan with foil and leave to cook for about 5 hours.

20 minutes before required, remove the foil to let the skin crisp. If you want perfect crackling, remove it from the meat and place on a baking tray with the crisper side down. Keep an eye on it as it may brown too far.

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