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A traditional whole roast suckling pig recipe. More than just cooking a meal, roasting a suckling pig is an event. Oftentimes the pig is roasted in a wood-burning oven or outdoors, making it impractical for a lot of us.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have christmas roast suckling pig using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas roast suckling pig:
- Make ready 1 small suckling pig 6-7 kg
- Make ready 1 can pineapple juice
- Make ready Salt - pepper - oregano - thyme
- Prepare Garlic (optional)
- Take Mustard
- Prepare Lemon juice (as much as you would like)
- Prepare Lemon tree leaves (optional)
Combine the juice, garlic, oregano, and salt in a mixing bowl. Transfer to a large, deep roasting pan and place the pig, belly down, into the pan. Behold the browned and crispy head of a suckling pig, after a six-hour roast. Barbecuing a Suckling Pig If you are looking to learn how to spit roast or barbecue a young pig, you've come to the right place.
Steps to make Christmas roast suckling pig:
- Wash the piglet. Wipe it well. Use a small knife to make holes in different parts of its body and insert garlic pieces.
- Coat the pork with lemon, salt, pepper, thyme, oregano and mustard and especially within its belly.
- Place it in a baking dish and pour over it the pineapple juice.
- Preheat the oven to 140°C and bake for 4-5 hours. Using a spoon, take broth from the baking dish and pour it over the meat regularly so as for its skin to become crispy.
- In 2 ½ hours time, turn the meat until it is golden brown from both sides.
- When cooked, keep it warm and you may serve it on a large platter, on lemon tree leaves.
Besides getting perfectly crisp skin, the other tough bit is finding a good source for suckling pigs. While technically a pig is only a true suckling pig when it's still drinking its mother's milk (up to the age of around six weeks), you'll often find pigs that are quite a bit older still labeled as "suckling."This is fine. A suckling pig is a piglet fed on its mother's milk (i.e., a piglet which is still a "suckling"). In culinary contexts, a suckling pig is slaughtered between the ages of two and six weeks. It is traditionally cooked whole, often roasted, in various cuisines.
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