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Beer-Braised Pork Knuckles with Caraway, Garlic, Apples and Potatoes

Recipe by Nigella Lawson from Nigella Kitchen

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Nigella has a particular fondness for German food. "Actually, I am more than fond: I adore it, every maligned bit of it. There is so much more to the cooking of Germany than wurst and sauerkraut, delicious though both are".

"The following recipe is inspired by the Schweinshaxe, or pork knuckle, I ate when I was last in Germany, a couple of years ago".

Serves 4

Ingredients

2 teaspoons sea salt flakes or 1teaspoon pouring salt
1 teaspoon caraway seeds
2 garlic cloves
2 pork knuckles/hocks, their rind scored
2 onions
2 eating apples, cored and quartered
4 baking potatoes, or just under 1kg other maincrop potatoes, cut into quarters lengthwise
1 x 500ml bottle good amber or dark beer (not stout)
500ml boiling water

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Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C/gas mark 7. Put the salt and caraway seeds into a bowl, mince or grate in the garlic, mix everything together and rub the pork hocks with this mixture, getting well into the slits in the scored rind.
Peel the onions, slice into rounds and make a bed or platform of them in a roasting tin. Sit the hocks on this onion layer and cook them in the hot oven for ½ hour.
Take the tin out of the oven and quickly arrange the apples and potatoes around the hocks, then carefully pour half the beer (250ml) over, aiming for the hocks so they are basted as the liquid pours into the tin. Put back in the oven, turning this down to 170°C/ gas mark 3 and leave to cook at this lower temperature for 2 hours.
Turn the oven up again to 220°C/gas mark 7, baste the hocks with the rest of the beer, and leave to cook at the higher temperature for another 30 minutes.
Take the tin out of the oven and transfer the apples and potatoes to a warmed dish. Lift the hocks onto a carving board, leaving the onion and juices in the tin.
Now put the tin on the hob over a medium heat and add 500ml boiling water, stirring to de-glaze the pan to make a gravy.
Take the crackling off the pork and break into pieces, pull apart or carve the meat and serve with the apples, potatoes, gravy and some German mustard.

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Notes & Tips

Make ahead note The pork and onions can be put in roasting tin up to 1 day ahead. Cover with clingfilm and refrigerate. Just before cooking, rub with the salt, caraway and garlic and cook as directed.

Making leftovers right Leftover pork can be stored in the fridge, tightly wrapped in foil, for up to 3 days. Eat it cold or reheat gently in a saucepan with leftover gravy, until piping hot. You should store any leftover gravy in a separate airtight container in the fridge for 1–2 days. Leftover pork can be frozen for up to 2 months, tightly wrapped in foil, then defrosted overnight in the fridge. Even if you have an amount too small to be useful by itself (a likely outcome), simply bag and mark it up and freeze it for future use

Recipe from Nigella Kitchen by Nigella Lawson, published by Chatto & Windus, part of the Random House Group Ltd.
www.nigella.com

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Anga 3 months ago

bought 2 pork hocks last night for less than $5 each and will easily feed 4 people - very impressed - can't wait to try this one.

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monika 4 months ago

haven't tried it yet sounds delicious

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