Roast Pork with Garlic and Thyme Leaves and Apple Sauce

Name: Roast Pork with Garlic and Thyme Leaves and Apple Sauce
Yield: serves 10–12
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon salt; 2 tablespoons fresh thyme leaves; 1 tablespoon olive oil (add more if needed to make a thick paste); 1 tablespoon olive oil (add more if needed to make a thick paste); home-made chicken stock; 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; roux (optional); 1 × 2.3 kg joint of streaky pork; 4 tablespoons parsley; 3 cloves finely chopped garlic

Preparation info

serves
10–12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Darina Allen's Simply Delicious Suppers

By Darina Allen

Published 2001

About

Streaky pork makes the sweetest and juiciest roast of pork; make sure to buy it with the skin on to get the crackling.

Ingredients

1 × 2.3 kg joint of streaky pork

Supper
Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Score the skin at 7mm intervals – let your butcher do this if possible because the skin is quite tough. (This will also make it easier to carve later.) Mix or liquidize the ingredients for herb paste and rub into the pork.

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas 5.