Gennaro's stuffed porchetta
Gennaro makes a mean stuffed porchetta. It looks and tastes beautiful, but don't be intimidated because it's really not hard to do at all. Get your butcher to butterfly the meat for you then make this beautiful stuffing and roll it up inside the meat before you roast it. You'll want to have a piece of string about an arm's length handy to tie your meat up once you've rolled it.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 12 of 13 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 12 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Pork | 100g cooked | 242 |
| Pine Nut | 1 oz (28g) | 191 |
| Chicken Liver | 100g cooked | 165 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Grape | 1/2 cup (76g) | 62 |
| Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Wine | 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) | 25 |
| Carrot | 1 medium (61g) | 25 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Sage | 1 tsp ground (0.7g) | 2 |
| Parsley | 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) | 1 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Stuffing | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 3 kg boned higher-welfare shoulder of pork, butterflied and skin on
- sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 2 onions, peeled and finely diced
- olive oil
- 200 g higher-welfare chicken livers, cleaned and roughly chopped
- 200 g higher-welfare pork mince
- 75 g pine nuts
- 100 g raisins
- ½ bunch fresh sage, leaves picked and roughly chopped
- ½ bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley, leaves picked and roughly chopped
- 1 wineglass red wine or mulled wine, plus a bit extra for the stuffing
- 8 carrots