Name: Slow-cooked pork shoulder with plums
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 570 min
Total time: 600 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 1½ tbsp fennel seeds; 2 tsp coriander seeds; 25 gm each brown sugar and white sugar; 25 gm sea salt flakes; 1 pork shoulder (about 5.5kg), skin scored; 300 ml dry white wine; 400 ml chicken stock; 6 red plums, halved, stones removed; 4 garlic cloves, unpeeled, bruised

Slow-cooked pork shoulder with plums

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for slow-cooked pork shoulder with plums.

Serves 8

Prep

30M

Cook

9H 30M

Total

10H

This recipe makes use of the last of the late-autumn plums – preferably red or blood plums. If you can’t find any, substitute pears. Any leftover pork can be shredded and tossed through a crisp salad of autumn greens or stuffed into soft white rolls the next day.

Ingredients

1½ tbsp fennel seeds

2 tsp coriander seeds

25 gm each brown sugar and white sugar

25 gm sea salt flakes

1 pork shoulder (about 5.5kg), skin scored

300 ml dry white wine

400 ml chicken stock

6 red plums, halved, stones removed

4 garlic cloves, unpeeled, bruised

Method

Main

1.Dry-roast fennel and coriander seeds in a frying pan over medium heat until fragrant (30 seconds). Crush in a mortar and pestle, combine with sugar and salt and massage into pork skin. Refrigerate for flavours to develop (4-5 hours).

2.Preheat oven to 200C. Place pork on a rack over a roasting pan, add half the wine and half the stock in base and roast until pork starts to colour (30 minutes). Reduce heat to 150C and roast until tender, topping up with extra wine and stock as required (7½-8 hours). Add plums and garlic, carefully stir to combine and roast until meat is very tender (30 minutes). Set pork aside to rest (30 minutes). Strain pan juices (reserve plums) and reduce sauce over medium heat to a sauce consistency (20-25 minutes). Slice pork and serve with pan juices and plums.