Five Spice Pork Roast For The Crock Pot Food

PERFECT CROCK POT PORK ROAST

Steps:

• Spray your crock pot with cooking spray
• Place your roast in your 4-quart crock pot fat side up
• Surround your roast with your potato wedges, onion halves and carrots
• Mix together one of your brown gravy mixes with 1 cup cold water
• Pour over your roast and veggies
• Cover and cook on low for 5-6 hours (total)
• An hour before serving, mix together your remaining brown gravy mix and 1 cup cold water
• Pour over roast and veggies
• Cover again for the last hour of cooking.

SLOW-ROAST FIVE-SPICE PORK BELLY & GRAVY

Steps:

• Mix together the five-spice powder, soy, honey, rice wine, vinegar, ginger, garlic and chilli. If you have time, pour the mixture into a shallow dish and sit the pork in the dish skin-side up, so only the meaty side is in the marinade and the skin stays dry. Salt the skin lightly and chill overnight if you have time, or for up to 24 hrs. (If you don't have time to marinate the pork, skip this and move straight to step two.)
• Heat the oven to 150C/130C fan/ gas 2. Pour the marinade (the excess if you've chilled the pork overnight) into a roasting tin. Sit the pork on top, skin-side up - it should fit snugly in the tin. Roast for 2 hrs. Remove from the oven, then lift the pork onto a board. Pour the fat from the tin into a bowl, then pour the juices through a sieve into a small pan. Wipe down the tin. The pork can be prepared up to this stage two days ahead and kept chilled.
• Turn the oven up to 230C/210C fan/gas 8. Put the pork back in the tin, skin-side up, and brush the skin with the oil. Roast for 30-35 mins, basting with the reserved fat once or twice, until the skin has blistered and crackled. If the skin hasn't crackled after 35 mins, slide the pork under a hot grill, but watch carefully to ensure it doesn't burn. Lift the pork onto a board and leave to rest for a few minutes.
• While the pork is still in the oven, add the stock to the pan with the roasting juices and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for a few minutes, adding more soy or vinegar to taste, if you like. Mix the cornflour with 1 tbsp water to create a smooth paste. Stir this into the sauce and simmer until thickened. Keep warm on the lowest heat. Carve the pork into thick slices and serve with veg and the gravy, or cut into squares and top with spring onions, chillies and coriander, with the gravy alongside for dunking.

FIVE SPICE PORK ROAST FOR THE CROCK POT

Steps:

• Rub roast with five spice powder.
• Sear roast in a skillet with hot oil before placing it in the cooker.
• Mix together and pour over roast: apple juice, wine and soy sauce.
• Cover and cook on low setting for 10 to 12 hours or on high setting for 4 1/2 to 5 hours.
• For Gravy: Strain cooking liquid.
• Skim off fat.
• Combine 2 cups of liquid (may have to add water to make 2 cups) with cornstarch and water.
• Cook until thick and bubbly.
• Serve over rice.

FIVE SPICE SLOW COOKER PORK WITH NOODLES

Steps:

• Rub the pork all over with the five-spice powder and salt. Add the chicken broth, soy sauce, brown sugar, sesame oil, and red pepper to the slow cooker. Stir to dissolve the sugar. Add the scallions, garlic, ginger, the mushrooms, if using, and the meat, turning it a few times to coat. Cover the cooker, set it on HIGH, and cook for 4 hours. Set the cooker on LOW and cook until the meat is very tender, at least another 2 hours (6 hours total).
• Transfer the pork to a platter, cover lightly, and let rest 15 minutes. Meanwhile, pour the cooking liquid into a measuring cup and skim off and discard the vegetables and fat that rise to the surface. Slice the meat and serve warm or at room temperature with noodles and the sauce on the side.

FIVE SPICE PORK ROAST

Steps:

• Trim fat from roasts and cut down to fit into your crockpot.
• If necessary, remove the bone.
• Rub the Five Spice Powder all over pork roast.
• Brown roast on all sides in oil.
• Place browned roasted into crockpot.
• Mix together apple juice, wine and soy sauce and pour mixture over roast.
• Cook on low for 10 hours or high for 4 1/2 to 5 hours.
• Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
• Cut up roast and place roast in oven to keep warm while preparing sauce.
• Strain liquid into a large measuring cup.
• Skim off fat.
• If there isn't 2 cups of liquid, add water to make up the difference.
• Next, heat liquid in a small saucepan.
• Mix together water and cornstarch; add to saucepan.
• Cook until liquid it becomes thick.
• Serve gravy over roast and rice.