Sausage And Apple Stuffed Pork Roast Recipes

SAUSAGE-STUFFED PORK ROAST

Steps:

• In a large skillet, cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Transfer to a large bowl. Add the bread crumbs, ricotta cheese, carrot, garlic and parsley; set aside., Starting about a third in from one side, make a lengthwise slit in the roast to within 1/2 in. of bottom. Turn roast over and make another lengthwise slit, starting from about a third in from the opposite side. Open roast so it lies flat; cover with plastic wrap. Flatten to 3/4-in. thickness. Remove plastic wrap. , Spread sausage mixture over meat to within 1 in. of edges. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roll-up jelly-roll style, starting with a long side. Tie several times with kitchen string and secure ends with toothpicks. Place seam side down on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. Rub oil over roast. , Cover and bake at 350° for 45 minutes. Uncover; bake 60-70 minutes longer or until a thermometer reads 160°. Discard toothpicks. Let stand for 10-15 minutes before slicing.

PORK ROAST WITH SAUSAGE-APPLE STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Melt butter and add onions, celery and apples.
• Cook until soft.
• Add crumbs, then add ground pork, sausage, and seasonings; mix thoroughly.
• Salt and pepper crown roast generously.
• Rub with a little sage.
• Fill center of crown roast with stuffing, mounding center slightly.
• Cover with foil and wrap bone ends with additional foil.
• Roast in hot oven for 3 hours or until meat thermometer reads 175 degrees.
• About 30 minutes before roast is done, remove foil from stuffing.
• Transfer roast to a large heated platter and remove foil.
• Add frills to each little ‘leg’ if desired, and rest meat about 10 minutes before carving.
• Decorate roast on platter with a round of small potatoes, large mushrooms, or cooked red cabbage.

STUFFED PORK ROAST

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Brown sausage in a saute pan. Add apples and shallots and cook 3 minutes. Transfer to a mixing bowl, add walnuts and parsley, and season, to taste, with salt and pepper. Let cool before stuffing.
• Split the pork roast horizontally, forming a pocket; do not cut all the way through. Season roast inside and out with salt and pepper. Pack stuffing in the center and tie roast with enough butcher's twine to hold it together.
• Heat oil in a large saute pan. Add roast and sear on all sides until well-browned. Transfer to a rack set in a roasting pan and roast until a thermometer inserted in the center registers 145 to 150 degrees F, about 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• Remove roast to a carving board, cover loosely with foil, and let rest 10 minutes before slicing. Slice roast into 12 pieces. Serve 2 slices per serving, garnished with parsley.

CRACKLE ROAST PORK WITH SAUSAGE-STUFFED APPLES & ONIONS

Steps:

• The day before, sit the pork on a wire rack over a dish and put in the fridge, uncovered, so the skin has time to dry out.
• Using a sharp knife, cut a roughly 3cm-wide 'core' from all the apples and onions. Coarsely grate as much apple flesh as you can from their 'cores' before you hit the seeds. Put the grated apple in a mixing bowl, snip the skins of the sausages and squeeze the meat out into the bowl too. Add the breadcrumbs, fennel seeds, mace and walnuts. Mix well with a little seasoning. Push some of the stuffing mixture into every onion and apple, packing it tightly and mounding the top as it will shrink a little during cooking (any extra stuffing can be rolled into the size of golf balls and roasted alongside).
• Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Rub the pork with 1 tbsp of the oil and plenty of sea salt. Break up the onion cores and reserved skins to build a trivet in the middle of your largest roasting tin, then sit the pork joint on top. Roast for 1 hr, then lower the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and roast for another hour.
• Rub the outsides of the apples and onions with another 1 tbsp of oil, then sit just the onions around the pork, loosely covered with some foil. Roast for a further 35 mins, then add the apples to the tin too, removing the foil from the onions. Bake for a further 25 mins until all the stuffing is cooked through, and the onions and apples are tender but the apples are still holding their shape. Lift the pork, apples and onions onto a serving platter and cover loosely with foil to keep warm. If the onions aren't soft enough for your liking, re-cover with foil and keep baking in the oven while you make the gravy.
• Pour any juices from the roasting tin into a jug. When the fat has separated, discard it and pour the meaty juices back into the tin. Put the tin on the hob and stir in the flour to a smooth paste. Cook, stirring, for 1 min, then gradually whisk in the cider, followed by the stock. Bring to the boil and bubble until the gravy has reduced a little and is of a good consistency. Sieve into another pan or gravy jug to get rid of all the onion bits and season well - if it needs sweetening, add some honey to taste.
• Thickly slice the rested pork at the table, making sure everyone gets a good portion of crunchy crackling, then share out the sausage-stuffed apples and onions. Add roasties, some green veg, and a generous glug of the cider gravy.