Pork roast with dark beer sauce

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• 1.2 kg pork shoulder with rind
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 tsp caraway seeds
• ½ tsp marjoram, dried
• Salt
• 125 ml water
• 1 carrot(s)
• 1 celeriac
• 1 parsley root(s)
• 2 onions
• 2 bottles of strong beer, dark (at least 5% alcohol content), 0.33 liters each
• 2 tbsp, heaped sauce thickener, dark

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Rest time approx. 10 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 2 hours; Total time approx. 2 hours 40 minutes

Ideal festive or Sunday meal.

Preheat the oven to 220°C (top/bottom heat). Wash the meat and pat dry. Score the rind in a diamond shape with a sharp knife. Peel the garlic and finely chop it with the caraway seeds and marjoram. Season the roast with salt and rub it with the mixture. Place it in a roasting pan, rind-side down. (Reindl is Austrian German and means casserole or roasting pan.) Pour in the water and cook for 15 minutes on the lowest rack or on the oven floor. Meanwhile, clean the vegetables and peel the onions, roughly dice everything. After the roast pork has cooked for 15 minutes, remove it from the roasting pan. Add the roughly diced vegetables to the roasting pan and place the roasting pan on the lowest rack or on the oven floor. Place a wire rack on the middle rack and place the roasted pork, rind-side up, directly over the roasting pan. This allows the heat to reach the meat from all sides, allowing it to cook better and crispier. Roast the roast for about 1 1/2 hours, basting the crust with a little beer every now and then. Important: Reserve about 1/2 bottle of beer for the sauce. After 1 1/2 hours, remove the roast, cover, and let rest for 10 minutes. Then slice the roast. In the meantime, prepare the sauce: Puree the vegetables in the pot with a hand blender and add to a saucepan with the reserved beer. Bring to a boil with 2 tablespoons of sauce thickener for dark sauces, stirring with a whisk, and allow to thicken. Serve with bread dumplings and apple-red cabbage, as well as beer or a good red wine.