Brown sugar and pepper crusted pork

Recipes / Meat

Wow your friends with this special roast pork and apple recipe, sweetened with brown sugar.

Recipe «Brown sugar and pepper crusted pork» presented in category Recipes / Meat, to prepare this dish you will need no more 3:50 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author sheff would need: 1/2 cup brown sugar, 2 tsp cracked black pepper, 1 tsp sea salt, 1.25kg piece pork scotch, 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil , 3 garlic cloves, halved, 1.25kg baby red delight potatoes, 8 large eschalots, peeled , 4 sprigs fresh rosemary, 3 royal gala apples, cored, quartered, 1 1/2 cups cooked peas and gravy, to serve.

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup brown sugar 
  • 2 tsp cracked black pepper 
  • 1 tsp sea salt 
  • 1.25kg piece pork scotch 
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 
  • 3 garlic cloves, halved 
  • 1.25kg baby red delight potatoes 
  • 8 large eschalots, peeled 
  • 4 sprigs fresh rosemary 
  • 3 royal gala apples, cored, quartered 
  • 1 1/2 cups cooked peas and gravy, to serve 

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 150C/130C fan-forced. Line a large roasting pan with baking paper (see note).
  2. Combine sugar, pepper and salt in a bowl. Place on a large plate. Roll pork in mixture to coat all over. Place in prepared pan. Drizzle with 1/2 the oil. Place pan on bottom shelf of oven. Bake for 2 hours.
  3. Place garlic, potatoes, eschalot and rosemary on a greased baking tray. Drizzle with remaining oil. Season with salt and pepper. Place on the top shelf in the oven. Bake potato mixture with pork for a further 1 hour 30 minutes or until pork is tender and cooked through. Remove pork from oven. Cover with foil to keep warm.
  4. Increase temperature to 220C/200C fan-forced. Add the apple wedges to the potato mixture. Roast for 20 minutes or until the apple has softened. Slice pork. Serve with roast potato and apple mixture, peas and gravy.