Potée Auvergnate

Boiled Pork with Stuffed Cabbage

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Anne Willan

Published 1981

  • About

The cabbage which is a vital ingredient in any potée is here used to wrap pork filling; these cabbage rolls are cooked separately but served with the broth as a first course.

Ingredients

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500-g piece salt bacon

Method

Put the salt bacon in a large pot. If using salt-cured pork shoulder, add it to the pot as well. Pour in enough cold water to cover and bring to a boil. Poach for 5 minutes over a low fire and taste the water; if it is very salty, discard it and repeat with fresh water. Drain the meats thoroughly.

Return the bacon to the pot and add the fresh or cured pork shoulder, water, peppercorns a