Smoked roast pork with cabbage

Name: Smoked roast pork with cabbage
Prep time: 2 h 30 min
Total time: 2 h 30 min
Yield: Makes 4 servings
Ingredients: ⅓ cup red wine vinegar; One 2- to 2½-pound red cabbage, cored and thinly shredded; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 large onion, peeled and sliced; 2 tablespoons butter; 1 cup dry red wine; 1 mango, peeled, pit removed, and thinly sliced; 1 cup Lapsang Souchong or other black tea; 1 cup sugar; 1 cup uncooked rice; 1 cup Lapsang Souchong or other black tea; 6 star anise; 6 cloves; One 2½- to 3-pound bone-in pork loin roast; Peel of 1 orange

Preparation info

Makes
4
servings

Difficulty
Complex
Ready in
2 hr 30

Appears in

Simple to Spectacular

By Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Mark Bittman

Published 2000

About

A gorgeous dish, purple, yellow, and brown, and rich in flavor as well. Line whatever pot you use for the smoking with a double thickness of heavy-duty aluminum foil, or use a pot you don’t care about. And try your best to use Lapsang Souchong tea, which has already been smoked and will therefore give a more intense flavor to the pork.

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
1 cup Lapsang Souchong or other black tea
1

Method

Line the inside of a wok or a large pot with a double layer of heavy-duty foil (or use a pot you don’t care about). Combine the sugar, tea, rice, spices, and orange peel in the bottom; place a rack over this mixture (or you can build a little platform with chopsticks or knives) and lay the pork on the rack. Cover tightly with foil, leaving just one tiny gap, no bigger th