So-called Roast Pork
After watching Food Wars (a Japanese Anime series) I was inspired to make the "So-called Roast Pork" dish. In the episode Soma's meat is ruined by the competition and they come and demand a meat dish. He boils potatoes, mashes them, adds onion and mushrooms then wraps the whole thing in bacon and roasts it. This is a delicious dish and very easy to make.
Ingredients
- 4 Medium Potatoes
- 1 Small Onion Finely Diced
- 1 King Oyster / Eringi Mushroom Finely Diced
- 6 slices Thick Cut Back Bacon
- 1 pinch Salt
Sauce
- 2 tbsp Soy Sauce
- 2 tbsp Mirin
- 2 tbsp Red Wine
- 10 g Butter
Plating
- Parsley finely chopped
Instructions
- Peel the potatoes and chop into 2 inch pieces, then boil until soft.
- Take the potatoes out of the pan, add a pinch of salt and mash. Then add the onion and King Oyster mushrooms and mix well.
- Take your 6 slices of bacon and arrange them on a board as follows: Lay 4 strips in vertical alternate directions with them slightly over lapping. The remaining two place horizontally in the middle of the other bacon. Shape the potato mixture in to a large sausage shape and place it in the middle of the bacon. Wrap the potato with the bacon. (See notes)
- Preheat the oven to 180C, place the bacon roll good side up (put the joins at the bottom) on a baking tray and put into the oven for around 40 minutes.
- While bacon is cooking, prepare the sauce. Put soy sauce, mirin, red wine into sauce pan over a low heat and bring to the boil. Next turn the heat off and the butter, mix very well and its ready to serve.
- Once the bacon has taken a nice colour (you can get it as crispy as you like), remove and plate. Pour over some of the sauce and sprinkle with a little parsley.
- Enjoy your juicy so-called roast pork meal :)
