Boiled Dinner with Salt Pork
Salt pork simmered with potatoes, cabbage, carrot and turnip in one pot, a filling farmhouse meal built around root cellar staples.
- Prep
- 20 min
- Cook
- 90 min
- Total
- 110 min
- Servings
- 6
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Calories
- 420 kcal
Equipment
- •Large stockpot
Nutrition
Per serving, approximate
- Calories
- 420 kcal
- fat
- 22 g
- carbs
- 38 g
- protein
- 18 g
- calories
- 420
Instructions
- 1
Soak the salt pork if very salty, then drain and place in a large stockpot with fresh water.
- 2
Bring to a boil, skim any foam, then reduce heat and simmer for 45 minutes.
- 3
Add the turnip and carrots and simmer for 20 minutes.
- 4
Add the potatoes and onion and simmer a further 15 minutes.
- 5
Add the cabbage wedges on top and simmer 15 more minutes, until all the vegetables are tender.
- 6
Lift out the pork and vegetables, slice the pork, and arrange everything on a large platter.
- 7
Season with black pepper and serve hot, moistened with a little of the cooking broth.
Chef's tips
Add vegetables in stages according to how long they take to cook, so nothing turns to mush while the pork finishes simmering.
Ingredient substitutions
- salt pork → salt beef or corned beef for a Jiggs-dinner-style variation
Storage
Keeps refrigerated up to 3 days.
Reheating
Reheat gently in a covered pot with a little of the reserved broth.
Common mistakes to avoid
- •Not soaking overly salty pork first, resulting in an oversalted broth
- •Adding all vegetables at once, cooking some to mush before others are done
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