Low & Slow Roasted Pork

Name: Low & Slow Roasted Pork
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 h
Total time: 10 h 15 min
Yield: Serves: 12 (easily)
Ingredients: 6 kg pork shoulder on the bone, with scored skin (from your local butcher); 3 onions, peeled and quartered; 4 medium carrots, each cut into 3 pieces; Olive oil; 2 whole bulbs of garlic; Salt and pepper; 500 ml Saxby’s Original Cider; 500 ml chicken stock; 1 bunch of fresh thyme; 2 apples, quartered

Preparation info

Serves:
12
(easily)

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
11 hr

Appears in

For the Love of the Land

By Jenny Jefferies

Published 2020

About

This recipe is a Saxby family favourite. Not only is it delicious but it can provide great leftovers for pulled pork rolls another day. A big advantage to the low and slow Cooking Time is you can leave it cooking all day (or overnight) while getting on with other things.

Ingredients

4 medium carrots, each cut into 3 pieces
3 onions, peeled and quartered
2 apples, quartered

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat your oven to 220°c. Put the roughly chopped carrots, onions, apples, bulbs of garlic and thyme sprigs into a large roasting tray.

Pat the pork shoulder all over with olive oil and sit it on top of the vegetables. Now massage the salt and pepper into the skin of the pork