Roast Pork with Crackling

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    6 to 8

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Real Irish Food

By David Bowers

Published 2014

  • About

Americans are missing so much when it comes to roast pork, because roasts in the States are almost always sold with the skin trimmed off. They usually have a layer of fat, which is great for flavor, but it’s the unattractive skin outside the fat, like a thick rind, that roasts up into crisp crackling, sort of like those bags of fried pork rinds but infinitely better. Once in a while, I actually do see skin on a roast at the supermarket, and these days in my neighborhood I know a butcher who