Chicken Pot Pie with Easy Puff Pastry
A creamy chicken and vegetable pie topped with crisp puff pastry—comfort food that is easy enough for a weeknight.
Classic British Roast Pork with Crispy Crackling
This Classic British Roast Pork with Crispy Crackling delivers everything you want from a proper roast: juicy slices, deeply savoury flavour and golden crackling with real crunch. The pork is seasoned simply,
roasted hot to start the crackling, then finished more gently so the meat stays tender. Serve with roast potatoes, seasonal veg and pan gravy for a dependable centrepiece meal that feels special without being complicated.
Method
20m2h 10m2h 30m
- Remove the pork from the fridge 45 minutes before cooking and pat the skin very dry with kitchen paper.
- Score the skin if needed, rub with oil, then season generously with sea salt, black pepper and crushed fennel seeds.
- Heat oven to 240C fan. Put onions, garlic and thyme in a roasting tin and place the pork on top.
- Roast for 25 minutes at high heat to blister and start crisping the crackling.
- Reduce oven to 170C fan, add hot stock to the tin and roast for 1 hour 35 minutes to 1 hour 50 minutes until cooked through.
- Rest the pork for 20 minutes loosely covered with foil.
- Carve and serve with the pan juices or make a quick gravy from the roasting tin.
Ingredients
- 1.8kg Pork shoulder joint skin on
- 4 Garlic cloves, lightly crushed
- 2 tsp Sea salt flakes plus extra for crackling
- 1 tsp Black Pepper freshly ground
- 300ml Chicken Stock hot
- 1 tbsp Olive Oil
- 1 tsp Fennel seeds crushed
- 6 Fresh Thyme sprigs
- 2 Onion halved
Notes
Drying the skin thoroughly and salting ahead of roasting helps produce crisp crackling.
If crackling needs extra crunch at the end, return it to a very hot oven for a few minutes while the meat rests.
Rest the pork well before slicing to keep the juices in the meat.
Secret crackling trick: rub the skin with sea salt and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice before roasting for extra blistering and crispness.
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