Grilled Tuscan Pork Rib Roast With Rosemary Coating And Red Pepper Relish Recipes

Steps:

• Line a baking sheet with parchment-lined foil. Stir together oil, 4 teaspoons salt, 1 teaspoon pepper, paprika, fennel seeds, sage, thyme, and rosemary. Rub mixture all over ribs. Cover; let stand at least 1 hour, or refrigerate up to overnight.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Roast ribs, uncovered, until meat is tender, 2 hours. (Ribs can be allowed to cool completely at this point and stored, covered, in refrigerator up to 3 days.) Switch oven to broil, with a rack 6 inches from heating element. Stir together vinegar and garlic; season with salt and pepper. Brush ribs with half of glaze. Broil until crisp, 1 to 2 minutes. Brush with remaining glaze, if desired. Cut into pieces and serve, alongside potato salad.

Steps:

• Toss the garlic, chopped rosemary, 1 tablespoon salt and the red pepper flakes in a small bowl. Make 3/4-inch-deep cuts between the rib bones of the pork. Stuff some of the garlic mixture into each cut. Rub the lemon halves over the pork, then rub with the remaining garlic mixture. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
• Bring the pork to room temperature, about 30 minutes. Position a rack in the upper third of the oven and preheat to 375 degrees F. Cut each fennel bulb in half, then cut each half into wedges. Scatter the fennel and rosemary sprigs in a medium roasting pan (it's best if the roast fits snugly in the pan). Place the pork in the roasting pan on top of the fennel, fat side up, and roast until a thermometer inserted into the center of the pork registers 145 degrees F, about 1 hour, 45 minutes. Transfer the pork to a platter or cutting board and cover loosely with foil; let rest 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, turn the fennel wedges and return the pan to the oven. Continue roasting until the fennel is caramelized, about 15 minutes. Cut the pork into chops and serve with the fennel.

Steps:

• Make relish:.
• Char peppers directly over gas flame or in broiler until blackened on all sides.
• Enclose in paper bag 10 minutes.
• Peel and seed peppers.
• Transfer peppers to processor; using on/off turns, puree peppers coarsely.
• Transfer peppers to bowl.
• Mix in remaining ingredients.
• Season relish to taste with salt and pepper.
• Let stand 1 hour.
• (Relish can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.).
• Make pork:.
• Combine rosemary, oil, garlic, orange peel strips, salt, and pepper in processor; blend until thick and almost smooth.
• Spread rosemary puree evenly over pork.
• Let stand while preparing barbecue.
• Stand charcoal chimney on nonflammable surface.
• Place torn newspaper in bottom of chimney; add charcoal briquettes.
• Light paper through hole near bottom of chimney.
• Let charcoal burn until ash is just gray, 30 minutes.
• Open vents at bottom of barbecue.
• Remove top rack.
• Carefully turn out hot charcoal from chimney onto bottom rack over 1 vent.
• To make a drip pan, pour water into disposable 9-inch-diameter foil pan to depth of 1/2 inch.
• Set pan with water on rack next to charcoal.
• Return top rack to barbecue.
• Place pork roast, bone side down, on top rack over drip pan.
• Cover barbecue with lid, positioning top vent directly over pork.
• Place stem of metal candy thermometer through top vent, keeping gauge on outside; thermometer should not touch meat or rack.
• Leave thermometer in place during cooking.
• Grill pork 1 hour, maintaining temperature of 325F by opening top and bottom vents wider to increase heat and closing vents to decrease heat.
• Leave any other vents closed.
• Using tongs, turn pork over.
• Cover barbecue.
• Cook pork until instant-read meat thermometer inserted into top center of roast registers 140F to 145F, about 15 minutes longer; temperature in barbecue may fall below 325F during last 30 minutes.
• Transfer pork to platter, leaving meat thermometer in place.
• Tent loosely with foil; let stand 15 minutes (temperature of meat will rise to 150F to 155F).
• Cut pork between bones to separate chops.
• Serve with red pepper relish.

Steps:

• Note: I'd suggest tripling the amount of rub, butterflying the pork further, and putting the rub all over both the inside and outside of the meat. There just wasn't enough of it for my taste.
• Remove the pork from the fridge and let come to room temperature about at hour before preparing. In the meantime, cut along the bone as if you were going to cut the bone off completely, but leave about an inch still attached. Rub the pork all over with olive oil to coat. Season with salt and pepper.
• Combine the finely chopped garlic, lemon zest, and herbs and rub this all over the incision made between the bone and the meat, patting down the herbs. Make a 1 inch incision between each rib bone and thread kitchen string/ butcher's twine through these incisions to tie the roast tightly and hold it together.
• Place the roast on a metal cooling rack, inserted inside a deep baking tray, skin-side up. Pour water in the bottom of the tray (if you prefer, you can use white wine, and in this case, pour it all over the roast and let it drip into the tray). Roast for 3 1/2 to 4 hours at 195º F (90º C) -- if you have a meat thermometer, you're looking for the interior to be about 150º F (65º C).
• Remove from the oven, turn up the heat to 430º F (220° C) and cook another 5 minutes to crisp the skin. Rest for at least 15 minutes, uncovered, before slicing into thick slices and serving. This is wonderful with roast potatoes (possibly roasted in the pan juices under the pork) or sautéed greens.