Roast Pork with Crackling and Green Gooseberry Sauce

You will need to order the joint ahead to ensure that the rind is still on – no rind means no crackling!

Roast Pork with Crackling and Green Gooseberry Sauce

SERVES

8

PEOPLE

Ingredients

  • For the pork:

  • 2.25kg loin of organic free-range pork with the skin rind intact

  • coarse salt or Maldon sea salt

  • 2 tbsp chopped herbs (parsley, thyme, chives, marjoram, savoury, perhaps very little sage or rosemary)

  • salt and freshly ground pepper

  • For the sauce:

  • 275g fresh green gooseberries

  • stock syrup to cover - 110ml water, 75g sugar – 175ml approximately

  • a knob of butter (optional)

You have reached your article limit. Already a subscriber? Sign in

185 years of the Irish Examiner

185th
Anniversary Offer

Six months of digital access for €18.50

No obligation. Ts&Cs apply.