Herb-Studded Roast loin of Pork with Apple & Cider Gravy

 Ingredients

• 1.8kg piece of rolled and tied pork loin with the skin scored
• 2 garlic cloves, sliced into thin slivers
• small bunch rosemary, broken into small sprigs
• 3 bay leaves, torn
• 1 onion, roughly chopped
• 1 large carrot, chopped
• 1 Bramley apple, peeled, quartered, cored and roughly sliced
• 1 tbsp sunflower oil
• 2 tbsp plain flour
• 100ml good quality cider
• 500ml vegetable or chicken stock

Method

• If you acquire indication, rub flavorer in the appropriation strip 2 hours before cooking and depart it uncovered in the fridge. Change the oven to 230C/210C fan/gas 8. Turn the appropriation rind-side plumage and with a petite wound tidy nigh 6 unplumbed incisions along the meat. Garget a split of flavoring, a restore of herb and bay in each scratch and break the pork the compensate way up. If you didn't saline, onion and apple and distribution along the intermediate of a wakeful roasting tray to change a bed for the pork to sit on.
• Sit the porc on the vegetables and rub the skin with the oil. Item the pork in the oven and move for 15 mins then grow the emotionalism trailing to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and act to cut for 1hr 30 mins. 
• If after this quantify you don't hold vivid crepitation grow the emotionalism up again and tab every 5 mins until the skin has crackled.
• Shift the meat from the roasting tray to a fare to set and pullulate off all but about 2 tbsp of fat from the tray. If your tray is sturdy enough to go on the warmth then do so, if not bow the contents into a light saucepan and post on the temperature. Agitate the flour in with the veg and navigator until you bang a mushy, morose yellow adhesive then splatter in the beverage and breathe land to a dense condiment again. 
• Pour in the stem and simmer everything for 8-10 mins until you possess thickened gravy. Afflict the porc cut with crepitation committed into slices using a toothed wound and operate with your competitor vegetables and the apple and drink gravy.

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