Category:Pork recipes

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In this category you will find recipes that contain pork as a main ingredient. Some of the recipes might be strange or unusual but hopefully they will give you some ideas and inspiration.

About pork

In the UK, pork showing the quality mark are guaranteed to have come from farms that are committed to high standards of animal welfare.

Lean pork should be firm and pink with slight marbling.

If you want good crackling, get your butcher to score the skin. Even the supermarket butchers will do this if you ask.

Score the crackling and baste while roasting, but never let the skin touch the boiling fat in the dripping tin, or it will fry, and be "as tough as leather". It will become 'Cuir Boullie", that is 'boiled leather armour plate' (which was specifically manufactured in olden days to withstand battle axes!); so keep your crackling well raised above the fat in the pan.

Do ensure pork is properly cooked, raw pork can be very dangerous.

Fillet (tenderloin) is great for curries, kebabs and especially stir-frys. A step-by-step guide to prepearing fillet of pork can be found here.

Cooking times

We have an interactive meat cooking time calculator here.

• see also: Cuts of pork