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Pork Hock Roast

Pork Hock Roast

When I worked at the Butcher Geoff (The real butcher! With 45+ years of knowledge) used to grumblingly cut the Hocks off, pop them in boiling bags and shove them in the ham boiler over night. They were a sort of twice weekly special the morning after our delivery and never lasted until lunchtime. We’ve tried Chilli Pork Hock casserole which was really very good. But are they any good roasted (asked nobody apart from us I’m guessing!)

There’s a reason the Geoff popped it the ham boiler. It’s tough as old boots and very greasy roasted! Even slow roasted it didn’t take on the flavour of the liberal bunch of foraged herbs. Yes hands up, this was not a great idea. But Sue’s Gluten free Yorkshire Pudding and stuffing balls saved the day…

The remained is going in a Chilli Pork Hock casserole tonight – at least we know that works!

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Hot & Spicy Scotch Eggs recipe

There were Hot & Spicy Sausages on a 2 or 1 offer the other day. Yesterday we had a strange fusion of Sausage Rolls and Pigs in Blankets. Tonight we had another pop at Scotch Eggs.

For 3 Scotch Eggs:-

Ingredients:-

6 Hot & Spicy Sausages, removed from their skins
3 Eggs, soft boiled, shelled and cooled
1 Egg, beaten for an egg wash
Plain Flour (Gluten free for us)
Bread Crumbs (Sliced brown Gluten free Bread wuzzed up in our case)

Method:-

(1) Once you Eggs are cool enough to handle press the Sausage meat into circles on a board about 4 / 5mm thick.
(2) Place each Egg in the middle and form the Sausage meat into a reasonably uniform coating. But careful not to burst your yokes.
(3) Place in the fridge for 10 minutes for the Sausage meat for stiffen slightly.
(4) Remove from the fridge and roll in the Egg wash.
(5) Roll in the flour and then in the Egg wash again.
(6) In a bowl filled with Bread crumbs coat the outside of your meat coating in crumbs. If your fingers stick you can patch up the crumbs by hand.
(7) Place on a tray lined with Parchment and pop in a pre-heated oven at 180c for 35 to 40 minutes. If you have a probe you are looking for 75c in the thickest part of the meat. If not 40 minutes should be plenty of cooking time.

We served ours with 3 times fried hand cut chips, a salad and hand cut Coleslaw. Remarkably filling and really quite fun to make. If you get it just right you’ll still have a slightly runny yoke…..

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