Roast Suckling Pig

Name: Roast Suckling Pig (Lechón Asado)
Yield: Serves 6-8, but cook 2 or 3 for a party
Cuisine: Spain
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon lemon juice; 100g (4oz) lard; 4 cloves of garlic, crushed; 1 tablespoon cold water; 1 suckling pig, weighing about 3kg (6½lb); 4 bay leaves; 4 sprigs of fresh thyme; 4 sprigs of fresh rosemary; Freshly ground black pepper; 2 tablespoons salt; 2-3 tablespoons dry white wine

Lechón Asado

Preparation info

Serves
6-8
, but cook 2 or 3 for a party

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

Floyd on Spain

By Keith Floyd

Published 1992

About

The way the Spanish serve suckling pig is not for the squeamish and faint-hearted because they do have a liking for very, very small suckling pigs probably weighing only 2kg (4lb) or so.

But, believe me, one of those split in half and rubbed with salt and sprinkled with thyme and rosemary

Ingredients

Europe
Spain
Main course
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

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