Crispy Roasted Pork Knuckle or Ham Hock

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Ingredients:

  • 1 meaty pork shanks or ham hock
  • 1 tsp juniper berry
  • 1 tsp caraway seed
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper corn
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • 1 cup (250ml) dark beer or chicken stock
    Mixture of large chancy veggies (sweet potato, celery, carrot, leek, scallion) for laying the pork knuckle

Instruction:

In the night before, pat dry your pork shank or ham hock

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Mix the juniper berry, salt, caraway seed and black pepper corn and process it into coarsely ground. Rub your pork shank with the spices mixture, let it refrigerated overnight

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Firstly in the morning, preheat oven to 180°C. Place the veggies in the bottom of baking tray and lay the pork knuckle over it. Pour the dark beer into the veggies without touching the pork shank

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Cover and seal the entire baking tray with heavy duty aluminium foil and let and roast for about 1 and half hour.

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Once the pork knuckle is fork tender, score the skin and the fat layer under the skin with a sharp knife. Never pierce into the meat.

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Expose the pork shank to the electric fan, let the skin is dry out. Once the skin is dry, roast it in 250°C for about 15-25 minutes, NEVER LEAVE THE OVEN and WATCH IT CLOSELY ! Once the pork crackling rind is popping out and blistered, put it out from the oven

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Brown Gravy Sauce Recipe:

Remaining roasting dripping

  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 1 tbsp all purpose flour

To make a brown gravy sauce :

Proces all the remaining gravy dripping in the bottom of the baking tray into smooth paste
Heat up 1 tbsp butter in the heavy botto sauce pan in a low heat, add the flour and sautee it until slighly brown to make a roux
Pour the processed gravy into the sauce pan and let it boil, add more liquid if necessary, simmet and let it thicken a little bit
Serve the schweinshaxe with the deep fried sweet potato and brown gravy sauce