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Roast pork belly stuffed with black pudding, sage and apple
If black pudding is just not your thing, simply double the amount of cumberland sausagemeat or replace it with a different type of sausage entirely.

Servings: 6

Servings: 6
Ingredients
  • For the brine
  • 200g table salt
  • 2 litres water
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  • For the roast
  • 2½kg pork belly
  • 1 onion, peeled and diced into 1cm pieces
  • Vegetable oil, for frying
  • 150g black pudding (peeled, if need be; optional)
  • 150g cumberland sausagemeat (or 300g if not using black pudding)
  • 1 braeburn apple, peeled, cored and cut into 1cm dice
  • 10 sage leaves, cut into chiffonade (ie very thin strips)
Steps
  1. First make the brine. Dissolve the salt in the water, then put the pork in a large container for which you have a lid and pour in the brine to cover. Pop on the lid and refrigerate for eight hours.
  2. In a frying pan, sweat the onion in a little oil for about eight minutes, until softened, then take off the heat and leave to cool.
  3. In a bowl, or a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, mix the softened onion, black pudding, sausagemeat, diced apple and sage until well combined. Scrape out the mix on to a board, then shape into a log the same length as the longest side of the pork joint.
  4. Heat the oven to 180C (160C fan)/350F/gas 4. Drain the pork (discard the brine) and pat dry with a tea towel, making sure the skin is as dry as you can get it. With a very sharp knife, score the skin all over in parallel diagonal lines 1cm apart and in both directions, so you get a crisscross effect (try not to cut too deeply into the fat, though, because that will stop the skin from going crisp). Roll the pork joint around the stuffing mixture, to enclose it, then tie with butcher’s twine to secure it in place - this can be quite fiddly, but it’s important to tie the joint as tightly as possible; you’ll need at least six loops in total.
  5. Transfer the stuffed pork to an oven tray, then roast for an hour. Turn up the heat to 240C (220C fan)/475F/gas 9 and roast for another 30 minutes, to crisp up the skin (for an even crispier skin, you can also blast the joint under a very hot grill for a few minutes just before serving, but make sure you keep an eye on it).
  6. Remove from the oven and leave to rest for at least 30 minutes before carving and serving with roast potatoes, gravy and the greens below; a few roast apple wedges wouldn’t go amiss, either.
 

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