Ginger roasted pork

 I like to watch some cooking shows on the Internet, but I rarely take the time and trouble to make anything in real life. Just before Christmas I saw Nigella making some ginger baked ham. Well, we can't buy a leg of cured ham to cook here in Japan so I just used pork and changed things around a little.

This dish was another rule breaker and honestly, even though the taste was great, I would change it to something easier next time.



1. Buy a big block of pork. I used the kind of pork that is used for "tonkatsu" steaks and asked the butcher for a block, not steaks.
2. Put the pork in a big pot and cover it with ginger ale! (Yes, ginger ale.)
3. Boil it for one hour.
4. Drain the pork, and preheat the oven to 220 degrees.
5. Mix about 150g of ginger jam with 50g of brown sugar, 1 tablespoon whole grain mustard, and 1 teaspoon of whole cloves.
6. Put the pork in a baking dish and cover with the jam mixture.
7. Roast for about 30 minutes until the jam is golden and the meat is firm.
8. Remove from the oven and let sit for 5 minutes.

1. This roast meat is nice cold, so buy a big block.
2. This is not healthy! Next time I will use water and dry ginger powder, plus a little honey.
3. She boiled hers for 4 and a half hours!!!
5. I got the ginger jam from Kaldi Coffee. Maybe you could use fresh chopped ginger and honey? She used powdered mustard but I didn't have any. She also used powdered cloves, which would be better.

This roast meat was really nice but not ham :)  All that sugar is bad, but for Xmas it was something special.
If you want to check Nigella's actual recipe, please search for "ginger glazed ham".