Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Moist Brown Sugar Pork Roast

Delicious combination of flavours. Thank you Food 52


1/4 cup vegetable oil
3 tablespoons brown sugar
4-5 pounds pork shoulder (boneless, trimmed of skin and fat)
1 onion, sliced thinly
1 shallot, sliced thinly
2 green onions
4 garlic cloves, chopped
6-8 mushrooms
1/4 cup chicken broth
1 cup soy sauce


  • Using a long knife, insert knife into pork shoulder in several places all around roast.
  • In a large Dutch oven (or heavy oven-proof pot with a lid) heat the cooking oil. 
  • Add ginger and brown sugar and sauté for 1-2 minutes. 
  • Add the pork shoulder and brown it on all sides. Remove pork from pot.
  • Add onion and mushrooms to pot. 
  • Saute until onions are soft and slightly browned. 
  • Add garlic and sauté briefly, then wine and soy sauce. 
  • Heat and stir to mix.
  • Return the browned pork shoulder to the pot. 
  • Turn pork over to coat well with marinade. 
  • Pile mushrooms and onions on top.
  • You can continue straight to roasting here, but refrigerating 3 hours to overnight will help the flavors penetrate the meat. 
  • Turn occasionally if you can. 
  • Let refrigerated pork roast sit at room temperature for 1 hour. 
  • Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
  • Cover top of pot with foil and cover with lid. 
  • Roast for 3-3 ½ hours. 
  • Check the roast once every hour and turn it over. 
  • Baste the roast with juices that accumulate in pot.
  • For a crustier outside layer, remove pot from oven and turn up the oven to 400 degrees. 
  • Transfer roast fat side up to sheet pan lined with foil. 
  • Take 3 Tbsp of juices from pot and combine with 2 Tbsp brown sugar. 
  • Spread all over top of roast and return to oven for 15 minutes until sugar has caramelized, but not burned.
  • Let roast rest out of the oven for 15 minutes before serving. 
  • Decant sauce to fat separator or smaller bowl to remove fat, if desired. 
  • Remove roast to serving platter, cut and remove strings, then cut meat into thick slices across the grain of the meat.
  • Drizzle roast pork with sauce and serve extra sauce along side. 
  • Serve with white rice.

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