Slow Cooked Hoisin Pork Roast With Green Onions - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil
5 1/2 lbs boneless pork shoulder, trimmed and tied to hold shape
3/4 cup hoisin sauce
3 bunches green onions, cut on diagonal into 1 inch pieces (about 6 cups)
1 teaspoon whole black peppercorn
1/4 cup scotch whiskey
3/4 cup water (or more)
sliced green onion (for garnish)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 300*F.
Heat oil in heavy large oven-safe pot over high heat.
Add pork shoulder, fat side down; brown on all sides, turning often, about 12 minutes.
Remove pot from heat.
Spread hoisin sauce over pork; sprinkle with green onion pieces and peppercorns.
Cover pot and place in oven.
Cook until pork is very tender when pierced with fork, about 2 3/4 hours, adding water to pot by 1/4 cupfuls if mixture is dry.
Remove pot from oven.
Transfer pork to cutting board and tent with foil.
Let pork stand 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, spoon off fat from pan juices.
Stir whiskey and 3/4 cup water into juices; boil 2 minutes.
Add more water by tablespoons if sauce is too thick, or boil to reduce sauce if too thin, Cut pork crosswise on slight diagonal into 1 inch thick slices.
Garnish with sliced green onions.
Pour pan sauce over pork and serve.