Roast Pork with Potatoes and Garlic

Name: Roast Pork with Potatoes and Garlic (Arrosto di Maiale Con Patate All’Aglio)
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 4 sprigs of rosemary; 10 garlic cloves, unpeeled; 1.5 kg (3¼ lb) small new potatoes; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 3 kg (7 lb) loin of pork; 150 ml (5 fl oz) olive oil

Arrosto di Maiale Con Patate All’Aglio

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Antonio Carluccio's Southern Italian Feast

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 1998

About

Roast pork always makes a welcome meal for any lover of good food. The taste is distinctive and, when it is accompanied by complementary flavours such as garlic and rosemary, you can’t go wrong. My favourite cut is the loin, which has enough skin to make plenty of delicious crackling.

Ingredients

3 kg (7 lb) loin of pork
150 ml (5

Europe
Italy
Main course
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C, 400°F, Gas Mark 6.

Score the pork skin with a small sharp knife in order to make crackling. Rub the whole joint with some of the olive oil and with salt and pepper. Place in a large roasting tin, cover with aluminium foil and