Cuban roast pork with sautéed sweet potatoes and thyme
This week I was contacted by belling range cookers, and asked to share a recipe that I love as part of there #goodlookingcooking campaign. So I thought long and hard and decided to share my favourite Sunday roast, with a twist! I originally came across this recipe while raiding my MiL’s very ample recipe book collection, she has more recipe books than Waterstones it truly is an amazing sight! I found it in her copy of Levi Roots, food for friends book and it was an instant hit and has become a Sunday staple – Just don’t forget the Yorkshire puddings!
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- 1.8 Kg Shoulder of pork 4oz
- 4 Sweet potatoes Peeled and cut
- 25 Ml Sherry I use a medium sherry
- Juice of 1 Orange
- Juice of 2 Limes
- 1 tbsp Cumin seeds
- 1/2 tbsp Black peppercorns
- Ground pepper
- Salt
- 1 tbsp Dried oregano
- 6 Sprigs Thyme
- 8 Cloves of garlic
- 4 tbsp Cooking oil I use olive oil, but you can use which ever oil you normally use for cooking
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- This first bit needs to be done the night before as the pork needs to be marinated. With small heavy bottomed pan, heat and then add the peppercorns and cumin seeds, toast until fragrant - making sure you keep them moving once toasted, cool then crush in a pestle and mortar, then add in 6 of your garlic cloves, oregano and a pinch of salt and make into a paste.
- Next put the paste in to a bowl and add the orange and lime juice the sherry and 2tbsp's of oil and mix it all together. Stab the pork all over and put it into a resealable bag and pour the marinade all over, seal the bag and massage the marinade in, then pop in the fridge turning every now and then (if you can leave for 24hrs you can do it for less time but I have found the longer you leave it the better)
- Heat your oven 200°C, 400°F or gas mark 6. Pop the joint in a roasting tray saving the marinade, and cook for 30mins, then turn the oven down to 160°F, 325°F or gas mark 3 and cook for a further 2hrs. Baste frequently with the meat juices and the left over marinade. Around 30min before your pork is ready, put on a pan of salted water with you sweet potatoes in it, bring to the boil and the simmer for 5mins and drain.
- Heat the oil in a large frying pan, add the cooked sweet potatoes, 2 whole garlic cloves and the thyme. Over a medium heat cook for 5mins and turn and turn again every 5mins until they are lovely and crispy. Season.
- Once cooked though, remove the pork from the roasting tray and leave it to rest, covered with foil for around 15mins, once rested carve and serve with the sweet potatoes.
This is, for me a perfect Sunday roast, and don't forget that no Sunday roast is complete without Yorkshire puddings! You could probably make a lovely jus with the meat juices but I'm just not that good so I tend to just pour any juices back over the meat although I have found that with the fat on the top of the joint and the marinade it keeps it quite moist.
This is is a collaborative post, all thoughts and opinions are my own.
13 Responses to Cuban roast pork with sautéed sweet potatoes and thyme
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I love Cuban flavours and this sounds delicious. Sadly my husband doesn’t like pork so i don’t get to eat it much. #foodiefriday
Looks delicious!
I love sweet potatoes, this recipe looks fantastic! One to save I think! xx
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This looks so good! Next time my husband and I have a date night I think we’ll have to make something similar to this! #FoodieFriday
I don’t eat meat, but I might make this one day for hubby 🙂 #foodiefriday
I will admit to not being a huge fan of pork but those potatoes look amazing!! #foodiefriday
The sweet potatoes look great #foodiefriday
We don’t eat much pork and the kids find it difficult to chew, Interested by the sound of Cuban flavours (I’m veggie so might try in on Quorn/tofu) #foodiefriday
This sounds amazing! I have never tried a Cuban recipe, I am so glad I found this! thanks for sharing! xx #foodiefriday
I love all of the herbs and spices you have used. I bet this tastes delicious. It looks lovely. Thanks for the inspiration! #foodiefriday
I love sweet potatoes and pork. This sounds awesome. #foodiefriday
The flavours sound so yummy X #foodiefriday
oh this looks yummy we have a thing for sweet potatoes at the minute not a big lover of pork will have to give the potatoes a try for sure. #FoodieFriday