Rolled pork head rost WITH PHOTOS!! :D

I am a huge fan of pigs head, it's cheap, moist and delicious so today i'm sharing my favourite way to prepare one.

Ingredients

1 pigs head half
2 bay leaves
Salt & pepper
Dijon mustard
1 green apple
6-8 garlic cloves, depending on size
Red chilli flakes
Malt vinegar
Olive oil
Regular, neutral oil
Mixed herbs


With a boning knife or similar, start from the cheek and cut all the flesh off the skull in one piece then proceed to remove as much of the leftover meat from the skull as possible as well as the tongue.

Buttefly the meat, to do this look for where the meat begins to taper upwards and become thicker, cut horizontally at this point with one long slash, peel it back and repeat until it's even.

Finely chop the apple and garlic, add salt and pepper along with 2 tablespoons of vinegar, the bay leaves, a glug of olive oil, a good pinch of mixed herbs, red chili flake and enough mustard to moisten everything. Spread this all over the underside of the meat then place all the extra meat, including the tongue on one edge and roll it up. Truss it with twine, make slashes on the skin and use plenty of salt and rub on some oil.

Place in a 220 degree oven for 45 minutes then turn it down to 140 for an hour and 15 minutes.

I served mine with a simple coleslaw.

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Meat looks moist as, just how it should be. About time you had a camera although I bet alot of people will get hungry after reading your threads.

A friend of mine dropped it off, i'm no photographer but got the bloody thing working after 10 minutes of tinkering haha ;)

That one looked better without photos:thumbsup: love it but as braun

I got half a pigs head tonight at pak n save for $3 and going to try this recipe minus the chilli

Please let me know how it goes :)

i will :thumbsup: