Recipe of Award-winning Traditional English roasted leg of pork with perfect crackling

Traditional English roasted leg of pork with perfect crackling
Traditional English roasted leg of pork with perfect crackling

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have traditional english roasted leg of pork with perfect crackling using 3 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional English roasted leg of pork with perfect crackling:
  1. Take 1 leg of Pork. … mine was about 7lb in weight
  2. Make ready 1 A little salt
  3. Take 1 very sharp knife
Steps to make Traditional English roasted leg of pork with perfect crackling:
  1. pre-heat oven to gas 8 .. electric is 220
  2. over a meat board…score the fat on top of the joint of pork
  3. you do this scoring …slicing into the fat with long lines very close together and then slice opposite direction so it looks like zigzag on the fat. be careful not to slice into the meat. your butcher will score this for you if you ask.
  4. you then rub a little salt into the fat that's scored
  5. place in the middle oven covered with lid or foil
  6. After 20 to 30 mins. Turn oven down to gas 4 or electric 160
  7. cook pork for 20 mins per pound and another 20 mins on top of that. check that juices run clear when cooked
  8. when cooked…leave to cool on a meat tray. or plate and after 20. mins take your sharp knife and gently slice the crackling off. .. keep meat juices for gravy
  9. always ensure your knife has been washed before doing this
  10. you can then slice the pork and serve with roast potatoes, veg and gravy made from meat juices and a little apple sauce on the side

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