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Ingredients

  • Pork shoulder, around 1 – 1.2 kg
  • 50/50 apple juice and water as directed
  • ¼ Cup apple cider vinegar
  • 2Tbsp pomegranate molasses
  • ¼ Cup brown sugar
  • 2 large onions, roughly sliced
  • a head of garlic, cut in half
  • 2-3 quince, cut into rough wedges
  • 1Tbsp each of smoked paprika, mustard seeds, anise seed
  • 4 black cardamom pods
  • 8 green cardamom pods
  • 3-4 bay leaves
  • 2 cinnamon quills

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Pork Meat SundayRoast

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Method

  • Preheat your oven to 150°C with the rack in the lower third
  • In a roasting pan, place your pork shoulder
  • Top up with half apple juice and half water until the shoulder is 2/3 covered
  • Add the cider vinegar, pomegranate molasses, sugar, onions, garlic, quince, smoked paprika, mustard seeds, anise, cardamom pods, bay leaves, cinnamon quills
  • Cover with a piece of baking paper which fits inside the pan, then cover very tightly with tin foil
  • Cook undisturbed for 4 hours
  • Allow to cool in the braising liquid, then strain the liquid and reserve
  • While the pork is still warm pull apart with two forks
  • Toss in a cup of the liquid

Comments

There’s no need to peel anything here, just get it in and make a B line for the oven; time is a’ tickin’.