Slow roast belly of pork with spiced apple and mash

Ingredients:

For the red meat

1.3 kg (2½ lb) belly of beef, boned
three onions, sliced
pinch of sea salt
10 fresh sage leaves
1 bramley apple, grated (see note)
splash of cider
For the mashed potato

900 g peeled and quartered maris pipers (see notice)
100 g unsalted butter
one hundred twenty ml double cream
freshly ground nutmeg
salt and freshly floor black pepper
For the sauce

500 g (1¼ lb) bramley apples (see notice)
30 g (1 oz.) butter
1½ tbsp water
2 tbsp cider
¼ tsp grated nutmeg
¼ tsp floor cinnamon
¼ tsp black pepper
30 g (1oz) tender dark brown sugar
cook dinner's notes
Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals five ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are clean (unless precise) and cups are gently packed. | All greens are medium size and peeled, unless detailed. | All eggs are fifty five-60 g, unless distinctive.

Instructions:

For the beef, preheat oven to 230°C / 450°F / gas mark four.

arrange sliced onion in the bottom of a roasting tray.

rating stomach with a pointy knife 1 cm / ½ inch aside. placing belly skin side down, season with salt and freshly floor pepper, and vicinity 6 sage leaves together with the grated apple over the meat. Roll up belly and at ease with string.

Chop remaining sage depart and scatter over onions, upload cider and location meat on pinnacle. location meat in oven for 20 minutes, then turn oven down to one hundred fifty°C / three hundred°F / gasoline mk 2 and cook for a further 3 hours. as soon as cooked and smooth, allow to relaxation for 10 minutes.

For the mashed potatoes, region potatoes in bloodless salted water and produce to boil, maintain for 20 minutes till smooth, then drain.

placed a lid at the saucepan and shake vigorously to break up the potatoes. regularly upload the cream and butter whilst mashing. Season to taste with salt, freshly floor black pepper and freshly grated nutmeg.

For the sauce, peel, center and break up the apples into same sized chunks. area in a pan with the butter , water, cider and spices. cowl the pan and cook dinner over a medium warmness till the apples are soft sufficient to beat into a puree. add sugar and stir via. flavor, and upload more sugar if vital.

observe

• you may substitute Granny Smith apples for the bramleys and Desiree or King Edward for the maris piper potatoes.