Porchetta with Salad
This Porchetta with Salad recipe is great for sharing. The dish originates from Italy and James has layered it up with some apples, onions, nuts, sultanas, fennel seeds and more, creating a gorgeous stuffing!
Ingredients
- 3kg boned pork middle loin, skin scored
For the stuffing
- 300g Dorset Blue Vinney cheese, crumbled
- 1 medium onion, grated
- 2 English apples, grated
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons fennel seeds 100g sultanas
- 100g walnuts, roughly chopped small bunch of parsley, chopped 50g breadcrumbs
- 2 eggs, beaten
- Sea salt and freshly ground
- Black pepper
To serve
- Mixed salad leaves and French dressing
Method
Preheat the oven to 240°C (220°C fan)/475°F/gas 9.
Put all the ingredients for the filling in a large bowl, seasoning well at the end. Mix until all the ingredients are thoroughly combined.
Lay the pork on a board and unroll it skin-side down. Using a sharp knife and starting at one end, carefully cut the meat in half horizontally, working almost to the very end so that it’s still attached on one side.
Open out the length of the meat so that you have a very long rectangle. Spoon the filling over the entire surface of the meat and smooth over so that it sits in an even layer. Starting from the end with no skin attached, roll the meat up tightly along its length to enclose the filling.
Secure with string: cut a length of string at least 5 times the length of the joint. Make a noose in the end of the string, loop it around the pork, then pull the string through the noose and pull it tight. Continue to work down the joint, wrapping the string around the underside of the joint and back around to meet the string at the top, then feeding the string over and under the string at the top, pulling it taught each time. Tie it at the end to secure.
Place the stuffed pork onto a baking rack set in a roasting tray and roast for 30 minutes. After this time, turn the oven down to 140°C (120°C fan)/275°F/gas 1 and roast for another 11⁄2 hours. Remove from the oven and let cool, then transfer to the fridge to chill overnight.
When you’re ready to serve, take the porchetta out of the fridge and leave for 30 minutes to come to room temperature. Cut off the string, then slice and serve with salad.
Ingredients
- 3kg boned pork middle loin, skin scored
For the stuffing
- 300g Dorset Blue Vinney cheese, crumbled
- 1 medium onion, grated
- 2 English apples, grated
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons fennel seeds 100g sultanas
- 100g walnuts, roughly chopped small bunch of parsley, chopped 50g breadcrumbs
- 2 eggs, beaten
- Sea salt and freshly ground
- Black pepper
To serve
- Mixed salad leaves and French dressing
Method
Preheat the oven to 240°C (220°C fan)/475°F/gas 9.
Put all the ingredients for the filling in a large bowl, seasoning well at the end. Mix until all the ingredients are thoroughly combined.
Lay the pork on a board and unroll it skin-side down. Using a sharp knife and starting at one end, carefully cut the meat in half horizontally, working almost to the very end so that it’s still attached on one side.
Open out the length of the meat so that you have a very long rectangle. Spoon the filling over the entire surface of the meat and smooth over so that it sits in an even layer. Starting from the end with no skin attached, roll the meat up tightly along its length to enclose the filling.
Secure with string: cut a length of string at least 5 times the length of the joint. Make a noose in the end of the string, loop it around the pork, then pull the string through the noose and pull it tight. Continue to work down the joint, wrapping the string around the underside of the joint and back around to meet the string at the top, then feeding the string over and under the string at the top, pulling it taught each time. Tie it at the end to secure.
Place the stuffed pork onto a baking rack set in a roasting tray and roast for 30 minutes. After this time, turn the oven down to 140°C (120°C fan)/275°F/gas 1 and roast for another 11⁄2 hours. Remove from the oven and let cool, then transfer to the fridge to chill overnight.
When you’re ready to serve, take the porchetta out of the fridge and leave for 30 minutes to come to room temperature. Cut off the string, then slice and serve with salad.
