Gorgeous dinner of porchetta stuffed with wild mushrooms, celeriac mash & gravy
This is a bit of a special weekend dinner and, despite how impressive the stuffed pork looks, it's honestly not that hard to make. It's an exciting dish and the end result will definitely blow you away, but you'll have to take a bit of time with it and show it some love. You'll want to buy the pork from a good butcher and ask for a boneless loin of pork with the skin off (but keep it for crackling) and belly on. Keeping the belly on makes stuffing the pork much easier. A nice little tip is to ask your butcher to give you the bones, as these will make a brilliant trivet to roast your meat on.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 19 of 22 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 19 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Pork | 100g cooked | 242 |
| Chicken | 100g cooked | 165 |
| Potato | 1 medium (173g) baked | 161 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Oyster | 6 medium (84g) | 81 |
| Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Shiitake | 1/2 cup (73g) | 34 |
| Fennel | 1/2 bulb (87g) | 27 |
| Carrot | 1 medium (61g) | 25 |
| Mushroom | 1/2 cup sliced (35g) | 15 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Celery | 1 stalk (40g) | 6 |
| Thyme | 1 tsp dried (1.4g) | 4 |
| Garlic | 1 clove (3g) | 4 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Seed | not in our table | 0 |
| Cider | not in our table | 0 |
| Celeriac | 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
- 1 large handful mixed wild mushrooms (such as shiitake, field mushrooms and oyster)
- olive oil
- 1 small bunch fresh thyme, leaves picked
- 2 bulbs garlic, cloves of 1 bulb peeled and finely sliced
- 1 knob butter
- zest of 2 lemons
- sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- a few slices stale bread, roughly torn
- 3 kg higher-welfare pork loin, boned, skin off, belly on
- 2 tablespoons fennel seeds
- 2 sticks celery, washed and roughly chopped
- 2 carrots, washed and roughly chopped
- 1 onion, peeled and roughly chopped
- 1 small wineglass cider
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 565 ml organic chicken or vegetable stock
- 1 kg celeriac
- 500 g potatoes
- 1 knob butter
- 150 ml milk