Roast pork with pumpkin and baby apples

Recipe By:Abigail Donnelly
Serves:4
Cooking Time:2 hours
Prep Time:30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 Kg pork leg
  • 2 Tbsp avocado oil
  • a pinch sea salt, plus extra to taste
  • Black pepper, freshly ground
  • 2 tsp cumin seeds, toasted and crushed
  • 500g pumpkin, peeled
  • 4 potatoes, peeled and halved
  • 3 shallots, peeled and halved
  • 4 baby apples, halved
  • 4 1/2 cups good-quality chicken stock
  • 350 ml apple juice
  • 4 cloves garlic cloves, finely chopped

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Cooking Instructions

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 180°C.
  2. Using a sharp knife, score the skin of the leg of pork, then rub with avocado oil and scatter with sea salt and crushed cumin.
  3. Transfer to a large roasting tray and roast, basting occasionally, for 2 hours, or until crisp and golden.
  4. In the meanwhile, place the vegetables, shallots and apples in a cast-iron saucepan.
  5. Pour over the stock and apple juice, scatter with the crushed garlic and season to taste, then roast for 40 minutes, or until tender and caramelised.
  6. Serve slices of pork with a helping of the sticky-sweet pumpkin side.
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