Roast Pork with Garlic

Name: Roast Pork with Garlic (Arrosto di Maiale)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 piece of leg of pork weighing about 1.8 kg (4 lb); 4 tbsp olive oil; 2 carrots, finely diced; 15 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 300 ml (10 fl oz) dry white wine; sea salt and pepper to taste; sea salt and pepper to taste

Arrosto di Maiale

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

An Invitation to Italian Cooking

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 1986

About

‘For this recipe it is best to use the hind leg of the pig (otherwise known as the ham) with its delicious skin. The skin is cut here to let the fat escape and to enable the meat to absorb all the flavours of the fat and seasonings. And, on top of that, it’s delicious to eat!’

Ingredients

1 piece of leg of pork weighing about 1.8 kg (4 lb)
4

Europe
Italy
Main course
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C/425°F/Gas 7.

Score the skin of the pork with a very sharp knife to make a grid pattern of little squares (your butcher can do this for you). Rub the skin with sea salt and grease on all sides with the olive oil. Place the meat in a baking tray and cook