Pork rack w/ crispy crackling

Name: Pork rack w/ crispy crackling
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 2 h
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 200 ml (7 fl oz) olive oil; 3 kg (6 lb 10 oz) pork rack with bones; 2 tablespoons chopped fresh sage; 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme; 1 tablespoon fennel seeds, toasted and ground; 3 garlic cloves, finely grated with a microplane; Apple sauce, to serve; salt flakes; freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
2 hr

Appears in

Chefs Host Christmas Too

By Darren Purchese

Published 2018

About

Just a simply done, beautifully cooked piece of pork. Oh, but that crackling though! They won’t be missing the turkey, that’s for sure.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon fennel seeds, toasted and ground
3 garlic cloves, finely grated with a microplane
2 tab

Main course
Winter
December
Gluten-free

Method

Put the fennel seeds, garlic, sage, thyme and oil in a bowl and mix together.
Using a sharp knife, make 4 mm (½ in) deep score lines into the pork skin, spacing the score lines about 3 mm (1.8 in) apart. Take the fennel seed mixture and rub it all over the pork. Transfer the pork to a dish and season all over with salt and pepper. Wrap the dish really well in p