Description
Pork Roast and Crackling Sandwich with Apple Sauce is a simple dish of fork tender roasted pork served on a bun with apple sauce topped with crispy pork crackling
Ingredients
Scale
Roast Pork
- 2 1/2 kg boneless skin on pork shoulder, preferably the one with thick fat
- 2 tsp fennel seeds
- 2 whole garlic, halved horizontally
- 1 white onion, quartered
- 2 cups dry white wine
- salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- olive oil
Apple Sauce
- 4 Granny smith apples, peeled, cored and chopped
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
Others
- dinner rolls, buns or slider buns
- mayonnaise
Instructions
Roast Pork
- Prepare your pork a day ahead, score the skin in 1 cm intervals, pat skin dry with paper towel, season pork all around generously with salt then place in the refrigerator uncovered for 8 hours.
- Remove pork from the refrigerator an hour before cooking, sprinkle it with freshly ground pepper, fennel seeds and olive oil. Make sure rub some of the olive oil and spices on the skin crevices.
- Place pork in a roasting pan skin side up add the garlic and onions on the side. Pour the white wine making sure you don’t wet the skin. Place in a 160 preheated oven and roast for 2 1/2 hours. Occasionally check if skin is still on top and not touching the liquid.
- Turn oven to 230C then roast for 30 minutes checking every 10 minutes if the skin is crisp and puffed.
- Once skin is crispy remove pork from oven then let it rest for 15 minutes.
Apple Sauce
- In a saucepan combine all ingredients, cover then cook over medium heat for 15 to 20 minutes or until apples are soft.
- Using a hand blender, gently blend the apples until thick but even in consistency.
Buns
- Cut buns in half, add some mayonnaise, top with sliced roast pork, drizzle some apple sauce then top with some crispy crackling. Enjoy.
