Crispy Roast Pork with Baked Apples

Ingredients

Pork leg roast
2 Tbs fennel seeds, crushed
1 tsp cracked black pepper
1 Tbs sea salt flakes
2 Tbs extra virgin olive oil
1/2 bunch thyme
4 Jazz apples, halved leghtways
Green beans, steamed and halved lengthways to serve

Method

Place pork, skin-side up, on a baking tray. Refrigerate, uncovered, overnight to dry out the rind.

Combine fennel, pepper and salt in a bowl. Drizzle pork with oil, then sprinkle over fennel mixture and rub into rind. Bake for 20 minutes or until rind starts to crackle.

Remove leaves from half of the thyme. Reduce oven to 180 C/160 C fan-forced. Bake pork for 1 hour 20 minutes, adding apple and thyme leaves in the final 30 minutes of cooking. Cover pork loosely with foil and rest for 10 minutes before carving.

Garnish pork with remaining thyme, then serve with apple and beans.

Credits: Woolworths

Photo Credits: Woolworths