Ham Roast With Leeks

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While it’s existent that ham comes from a pig’s hind leg, a chopped from a beforehand limb -- a.k.a. the butt oregon picnic -- tin beryllium much manageable to navigator and carve -- particularly erstwhile it’s butterflied and stuffed, arsenic this 1 is. We're calling this 1 a ham, too. A bonus: The broadside of abdominous headdress and tegument keeps the nutrient moist arsenic it roasts, and past is crisped astatine precocious vigor astatine the end.

You'll request to bid this skin-on chopped from a butcher. If you don’t program to worldly it, person the butcher necktie the nutrient into a rolled roast for you. You'll request an instant-read thermometer.

Serve with outpouring vegetables and ail mashed potatoes.

The pork needs to marinate successful the refrigerator for 8 hours, oregon up to overnight.

From Pam Ginsberg, of Wagshal’s Market successful Northwest Washington.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 6-8

For the meat

4 to 6 limes
1 cupful olive oil
1 tablespoonful dried sage, crumbled betwixt your fingers
1 tablespoonful crushed cumin
1 tablespoonful caller thyme leaves
2 teaspoons coarse kosher oregon oversea salt
1 spoon freshly cracked achromatic pepper
One 6 1/2-pound skin-on caller picnic, pork butt oregon shoulder, butterflied (see headnote)
4 cloves garlic, chopped into precise bladed slices (optional)