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Felicity Cloake

How to make porchetta – recipe

Roll up: Felicity Cloake's porchetta.
Roll up: Felicity Cloake’s porchetta. Photograph: Robert Billington/The Guardian. Food stylist: Loic Parisot.

Hog roast, Italian-style, is traditionally made with a whole suckling pig stuffed with herbs and slow roasted until soft and succulent and with a crisp, bronzed skin. Perhaps fortunately, few of us have the means to replicate this at home or we’d never find time to do anything else, but a smaller cut is dangerously doable.

Prep 25 min
Chill 8 hr+
Cook 4 hours 30 min
Serves 8-10

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