Danish Roast Pork Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F.
• Score your crackling.
• Season with salt & pepper.
• Place roast on a rack in roasting pan.
• Cook your prunes until tender (cover with water and simmer until tender).
• 45 minutes before the roast is done, place apples around the roast.
• 30 minutes before roast is done, put prunes around the roast.
• Roast until inner temp reach 170°F (allow 30- 35 minutes per pound).
• Remove roast from oven and cut off the crackling.
• Cover roast, prunes and apples and keep warm.
• Return crackling to hot oven in a metal pan. (Raise temp to about 375°F or broil, but if you broil watch closely).
• Spray with cold water again if it hasn't completely crackled.
• Spray crackling with cold water, takes about 10 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°F Dry pork roast as much as possible with a paper towel.
• Using a sharp knife, cut halfway through the fat layer (but not the meat) in horizontal lines 1/2" apart. Then make vertical lines 1/2" apart, making a cross-hatch pattern.
• In a small bowl, combine the salt, cloves, mustard seeds, and crumbled bay leaves. Rub the mixture into the pork roast, making sure to work it into the fat layer.
• Place in a deep roasting pan and roast for about 30 minutes or until top is crackling and golden brown. Reduce heat to 350°F and carefully pour the water into the pan.
• Cook another hour, or until meat reaches 160°F.
• Remove crackling from roast, cut roast into slices, and serve crackling with the roast.

Steps:

• Cut deep slits in pork loin and insert prune halves.
• Rub with the salt, pepper, and ginger.
• Roast uncovered in a 325° oven for about 1.5 hours.
• When done, remove from roasting pan.
• Heat pan drippings; stir in the flour, then add the prune juice and water.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste and cook until thickened.
• Stir in the jelly and serve the gravy over the sliced pork.

Steps:

• Combine oil, pepper, and salt in a bowl; rub oil mixture over pork and refrigerate while oven preheats.
• Preheat an oven to 475 degrees F (245 degrees C).
• Place a roasting rack in a large roasting pan; arrange pork on the roasting rack.
• Roast in preheated oven until pork with browned, about 30 minutes. Remove pork from oven and reduce oven heat to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Allow pork to rest uncovered at room temperature for 30 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read between 115 degrees F (46 degrees C) and 140 degrees F (60 degrees C).
• Return to oven and continue to cook until pork is slightly pink in the center, 15 to 30 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 145 degrees F (63 degrees C).
• Let the roast stand uncovered at room temperature for 15 to 20 minutes before slicing and serving.