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Slow-roasted pork shoulder, honey and mustard pumpkin

Jeremy and Jane Strode

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Slow-roasted pork shoulder, honey and mustard pumpkin
Slow-roasted pork shoulder, honey and mustard pumpkinMarco Del Grande

This is our absolute favourite way of cooking pork. You must start with a hot oven to get the wonderful crackling.

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Ingredients

  • 3.5kg pork shoulder, with bone removed

  • Sea salt

  • 3 tbsp vegetable oil

  • 5 brown onions, peeled and cut into quarters

  • 1 orange, quartered

  • 3 sprigs rosemary

  • 1.5kg pumpkin, washed

  • 20g honey

  • 20g seeded mustard

  • 20ml olive oil

  • Pepper

  • 200ml white wine

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 220C. Score pork rind in evenly spaced parallel lines. Rub a generous amount of sea salt into the rind, then rub in oil. Place onions, orange and rosemary in a roasting tray, place pork on top and bake for 30 minutes. Cut pumpkin into eight wedges and discard seeds. Mix honey, mustard and olive oil in a large bowl. Add pumpkin and toss to coat. Season with salt and pepper and place in a baking tray. Bake for 30 minutes or until golden and cooked through. Reserve. Turn oven down to 160C.

    Bake pork for three more hours. Remove pork to a carving board and rest in a warm place for 30 minutes. Remove onions to a dish; discard oranges. Strain fat from baking tray, place on the stove and deglaze with white wine. Simmer to reduce by one-third, season and strain. Cut crackling from shoulder and cut into small pieces. Carve pork across the grain and serve with crackling, pumpkin, onions and pan juices.

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