Ingredients

Method

• Woolworths Made Without Added Nitrite pork belly roast
• Woolworths Easy beef roast with bacon lattice
Poached pears:
• 4 pears, peeled
• 750 ml red wine
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 T juniper berries
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 star anise
Roasted grapes:
• 500 g Woolworths seedless red grapes
Charred leeks
• 300 g leeks
• 2 T olive oil

Method

Ingredients

Roast Woolworths Made Without Added Nitrite pork belly roast or Easy beef roast with bacon lattice according to package instructions. Serve with:

For the poached pears:

1  Heat the wine, sugar, juniper berries and cinnamon stick together and poach the pears for 45 minutes. Remove and set aside.

2  Reduce the sauce for 15 minutes or until syrupy.

For the roasted grapes:

3. Roast a punnet of grapes in the 180ºC oven for 45 minutes or until soft and caramelised.

For the charred leeks:

4. Slice the leeks in half lengthways and brush with the olive oil.

5. Charr in a pan until soft and caramelised.

Photographs and video: Sadiqah Assur-Ismail
Recipes and production: Brita du Plessis
Food assistant: Josh van Zyl

Find more Christmas recipes here.

Planning your festive mains just got easier. Woolworths has covered all your bases with its range of easy, impressive roasts. Think gammon is overrated? Go for roast pork belly with crackling. Woolworths 100% South African pork belly is free from added nitrites. Intimidated by a hunk of beef? Try the new Easy beef roast with a bacon lattice – beef rump with apple-and-cranberry stuffing, wrapped in streaky bacon.

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