Brown Sugar Garlic Butter Roast Pork
Ingredients
- 1.75 – 2kg / 3.5 – 4lb pork shoulder / butt , cut into 8 equal pieces (Note 1)
- 1 tsp each salt and pepper
Sauce
- 100 g / 7 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup / 80g brown sugar , loosely packed
- 1/4 cup / 65 ml cider vinegar (white wine or red wine vinegar also fine)
- 4 garlic cloves , minced
- 1/4 tsp each salt and pepper
Instructions
- 1
Preheat oven to 160C/320F (standard) or 140C/290F (fan).
- 2
Place Sauce ingredients in a saucepan over medium heat. Once better has melted, stir to combine then leave for 1 – 2 minutes until sugar is melted. Remove from heat.
- 3
Sprinkle pork pieces all over with salt and pepper.
- 4
Line pan with foil then parchment / baking paper, place pork in pan.
- 5
Pour Sauce all over pork. Cover with foil. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes.
- 6
Remove from oven, remove foil. Turn pork. Return to oven uncovered for 20 minutes.
- 7
Remove from oven. Turn pork, spoon pan juices over. Return to oven for 20 – 30 minutes or until pork is golden and sauce has reduced to a thin syrup (thickens more when it cools).
- 8
Stand for 5 minutes, then turn pork to coat in sauce. Serve pork with syrupy pan sauce.
