Honey and soy roasted pork rack

July 13, 2014 (Last Updated: January 11, 2019)

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Honey and soy roasted pork rack

Serves: 6
Cooking Time: 2 hours

Ingredients

  • 1,8kg pork roast
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • SAUCE
  • 125ml (½ cup) soya sauce
  • 10ml (2 tsp) Chinese five spice powder
  • 3 star anise
  • 100ml honey
  • 10ml (2 tsp) treacle sugar
  • 2,5ml (½ tsp) ground cloves
  • 5 black peppercorns
  • 45ml (3 tbsp) rice wine vinegar
  • 10ml (2 tsp) dried chilli flakes
  • 2 garlic cloves, grated
  • 5cm fresh ginger, peeled and grated
  • 6 spring onions, cut into 3cm pieces
  • 10 mini fennel bulbs

Instructions

1

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Place the pork roast in a large baking dish,season and bake for 20 minutes.

2

Remove from the oven. Combine all the sauce ingredients ina small bowl and mix well.

3

Pour the sauce over the pork and add the spring onions and fennel to the baking dish.

4

Cover with foil, lower the oven temperature to 180°C and roast for a further 1 hour. Baste the pork with the pan juices every 20 minutes.

5

After an hour, remove the foil and roast for a further 20 minutes, to form a crispy crackling.

6

Allow the pork to rest for 10 minutes before carving. The sweet, sticky, salty sauce is delicious spoonedover steamed basmati rice. Scatter with plenty of fresh coriander just before serving.

 

 

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