Roast pork and crackling

Ingredients:

  • Roasting pork joint with crackling
  • Vegetable oil
  • Salt
  • Sage leaves
  • 2 large onions, peeled and sliced

Method:

  1. Preheat the oven to 220ºC / Gas 7.
  2. Remove the pork from the packaging and pat dry with kitchen roll.  If the pork skin isn’t scored, with a sharp knife score across the pork skin.
  3. Place the sliced onion and sage leaves on the bottom of a roasting tin.  Place the pork on top.
  4. Rub oil and salt all over the crakling.  Place the pork in the oven and cook for 30mins.  Then reduce the heat to 180ºc/Gas 4 and cook for the remaining time acorrding to the size of your roasting joint.  (As a guide medium – 25mins per 450g, plus 20mins, if you prefer your pork well done, then 30mins per 450g, plus 20mins)
  5. When cooked, remove from the oven, take off the crackling and then carve.