Taste Magazine
Login/Register
Menu
  • Home
  • Recipes
    • Breakfast
    • Lunch
    • Dinner
    • Starters
    • Mains
    • Desserts
    • Drinks
    • View all
  • Ingredients
    • Apples
    • Cabbage
    • Cheese
    • Citrus
    • Mushrooms
    • Pork
    • Potatoes
    • Root vegetables
    • View all
  • Dishes
    • Curry
    • Braai
    • Slow roasts
    • Soup
    • Pasta
    • Plant-based
    • Warm puddings
    • View all
  • Occasions
    • Birthdays
    • Ramadan
    • Eid
    • Easter
    • Pesach
    • Diwali
    • Hanukkah
    • Christmas
    • New Year’s Eve
  • Popular
    • South African
    • Air fryer
    • Braai
    • Five-ingredients or less
    • 30 minutes or less
    • Great Value
  • Win
    • Competitions
    • Competition Winners
  • Culture
    • Articles
    • How To
    • Columns
    • Glossary
  • WList™ great value hub
  • Login
  • WCellar
  • Contact Us
Editor’s picks
Easy, butter-roasted tomato-and-sausage spaghetti
Great value

Easy, butter-roasted tomato-and-sausage spaghetti

1 hour
Sweetcorn tamarind soup
Corn recipes

Sweetcorn tamarind soup

20 minutes
Pork cacciatore
Italian recipes

Pork cacciatore

50 minutes
  • Home
  • Recipes
  • juice
Granola, ricotta and yoghurt cups with iced berries

Granola, ricotta and yoghurt cups with iced berries

Marmalade-glazed mosbolletjies

Marmalade-glazed mosbolletjies

40 minutes
Roast lamb and minted tzatziki toasts
Lamb recipes

Roast lamb and minted tzatziki toasts

30 minutes
Contemporary Waldorf salad

Contemporary Waldorf salad

Healthy Waldorf salad

Healthy Waldorf salad

5 to 10 minutes
Traditional Waldorf salad

Traditional Waldorf salad

Smoked mackerel pate
Fish recipes

Smoked mackerel pate

The Hummus brothers
Chickpea recipes

The Hummus brothers

40 minutes
Smoked haddock fishcakes with parsley and caper sauce
Fish recipes

Smoked haddock fishcakes with parsley and caper sauce

30 minutes
Big boy Hanoi burger with cucumber pickle
Asian recipes

Big boy Hanoi burger with cucumber pickle

20 minutes
Grilled citrus chicken with sesame noodles

Grilled citrus chicken with sesame noodles

15 to 20 minutes
Smashed Verjuice-roasted potatoes with fragrant smoked pork

Smashed Verjuice-roasted potatoes with fragrant smoked pork

2 hours
Load more
  • Taste Magazine
  • shop online at woolworths. Shop Now
© 2025 Woolworths holdings limited. All rights strictly reserved.
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Media24
Please login or register to favourite a recipe.
Login/Register

Smashed Verjuice-roasted potatoes with fragrant smoked pork

By Abigail Donnelly
4
Easy
45 minutes
2 hours

Ingredients

  • 450 g pork neck
  • 5 T olive oil
  • 1 T smoked paprika
  • 2 t fennel seeds, crushed
  • 3 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 1 T lemon zest
  • 2 t sumac
  • 2 t crushed dried chilli
  • 500 g mix Mediterranean, organic and baby potatoes
  • Sea salt
  • 1 cup verjuice
  • 2 brinjals, cubed
  • 1 cup fresh coriander
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • ½ cup good-quality mayonnaise

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Rub the pork neck with 2 T olive oil, the smoked paprika, crushed fennel seeds and garlic, lemon zest, sumac and dried chilli until evenly coated.
Place on a baking tray and roast for 1½ to 2 hours, or until the meat is firm but still succulent and pink inside. In the last 40 minutes of cooking, add the potatoes to a baking tray, toss in 1 T olive oil, scatter with sea salt and drizzle with half the verjuice.
Bake for 20 minutes, then turn and drizzle with the remaining verjuice. Bake for a further 15 to 20 minutes, or until the potatoes have caramelised. In a pan over a medium heat, fry the brinjal in the remaining olive oil until charred and crisp.
Blend the coriander and lemon juice with the mayonnaise. To serve, smash the potatoes and arrange on a large platter, top with slices of fragrant pork and tumble over the charred brinjal before drizzling with a good spoonful of the lemon-coriander mayonnaise.

Per serving: 2070.4 kJ, 25.6 g protein, 19.1 g fat, 28.3 g carbs