Millin’s Pear, Maple & Bacon Pork Roast

Delicious Pear, Maple & Bacon Pork Roast

Pear, maple and bacon is a beautiful flavour combination. At Millin’s Free Range Butcher we love to enhance those flavours by wrapping them around a Free Range Pork Roast. It’s a delicious pork-on-pork dish, which is always a good thing!

Want to make this dish for your next dinner party but short on time? Order your meat online, then make a quick stop a Millin’s to pick-up your pre-purchased pork and bacon rashers and you’ll be ready to prepare a gourmet meal that the whole family will love.

Cook Time and Yield

Time: 3.5 hours | Serves: 4-6.

Ingredients

• 2 Tbs seeded mustard
• 1.4kg piece Millin’s Pork Neck
• 8 rashers Millin’s Thin Bacon
• 2 tsp olive oil
• 500ml free range chicken stock
• 1 garlic bulb – halved crossways
• 2 medium red onions, cut into 6 wedges each
• 3 medium Corella pears, halved
• 1 Tbs shredded fresh sage leaves
• ¼ cup pure Maple syrup
• Fresh Sage leave to serve

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 160º.
2. Spread mustard over the top of the pork neck.
3. Wrap bacon around the pork, overlapping strips slightly.
4. Place in a roasting dish and drizzle with oil and season with pepper.
5. Add garlic, onion, pear and stock and sprinkle with shredded sage to dish.
6. Drizzle with Maple syrup and cover with foil.
7. Roast for 3 hours.
8. Increase temperature to 200 degrees.
9. Remove foil and roast for a further 30 minutes.
10. Remove from the oven and slice pork.
11. Serve with the roasted garlic, onion and pear, and drizzle with the delicious pan juices. Top with extra sage leaves.