Australian

Roast Pork with Crackling and Apple Sauce

Name: Roast Pork with Crackling and Apple Sauce
Total time: 2 h 10 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 4 lb pork shoulder; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1 cup applesauce; 1 tsp salt

Nathan @nathan_bbq

Roast Pork with Crackling and Apple Sauce is Australian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

130 min Involved

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 lb pork shoulder
1 tbsp olive oil
1 cup applesauce
1 tsp salt

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 250F.
Score the pork skin in a diamond pattern and pat completely dry.
Rub the skin with olive oil and a generous amount of salt, working it into the scores.
Roast low and slow until very tender, about 2 hours.
Raise the oven to 450F and roast until the skin crackles and blisters, about 20 minutes more.
Rest for 15 minutes, carve, and serve with the applesauce.

Watch how to cook Roast Pork with Crackling and Apple Sauce

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Serve it with

A Australian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Roast Pork with Crackling and Apple Sauce, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Aussie Corn on the Cob
  
  15 min
What it is eaten with
- Aussie Garlic Bread
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Roast Pork with Crackling and Apple Sauce carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Roast Pork with Crackling and Apple Sauce
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 630 kcal
Protein: 51 g
Carbs: 4 g
Fat: 46 g
Fiber: 0 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 500 mg
Saturated fat: 16 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Roast Pork with Crackling and Apple Sauce takes about 130 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.