Name: Perfect Roast Pork Crackling
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 4 h
Total time: 4 h 15 min
Yield: 4-6 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 (3 -5 kg) pork legs (50 minutes per kilogram at 190degrees celsius); 1 teaspoon dried fennel seed; sea salt; black pepper; olive oil; boiling water

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Perfect Roast Pork Crackling created by janienpurple

This is the only way to make true crackling on your pork roast. It took me years to perfect this and this is the first recipe to share on zaar

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ingredients

1 (3 -5 kg) pork legs (50 minutes per kilogram at 190degrees celsius)
1 teaspoon dried fennel seed
sea salt
black pepper
olive oil
boiling water

directions

Score pork skin, best to have your butcher do this.
Place pork in colander and pour boiling water over to open the skin. Dry thoroughly and then place in fridge for 1-2 hours.
Remove from fridge and rub with salt -- Then mix ground fennel seeds with olive oil and rub all over pork and into slits.
The flavour is magnificent. Use your own judgement on cooking times, but a general suggestion is around 50 minutes per kilogram in a moderate to hot oven.

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"This is the only way to make true crackling on your pork roast. It took me years to perfect this and this is the first recipe to share on zaar"

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review by goodmate

12/24/2012

I found this totally confusing....if you start at 190 degrees all you end up with is leather<br/>Why ommitt telling people they should start with a very hot oven,,,, must be some annoyed pork cookers out there if they followed this

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review by whitewings 33

10/27/2010

Sorry I couldnt rate the recipe higher as starting the oven at 190 degrees resulted in a hard skin with no blistering or true "crackle" and yeat I followed it to the letter the first time. However as cookingpompom suggested I started with a Hot oven preheated to 240 untill the rind was visibly blistering - roughly half an hour, and then reduced to 190 for the remaining cooking time and it was truly spectacular... seems like there might be a step missing in there somewhere :)

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review by djmastermum

12/14/2009

Oh my I knew that this was going to be great when my son came in and said, 'WOW, tea speels GREAT!"And of course he was right! I would get the burcher to score the park next time though ... I am lazy :-O

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review by YnkyGrlDwndr

7/7/2009

As far as making the crackling this was perfect. Omitted the fennel seed. Did as advised by one reviewer to put in at 240C for 30 min. and drop to 180C for remaining time for cooking which in my case was a bit longer than required and dried the meat out a bit. So it will take a bit to get the temps and timing right.

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