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CHARCOAL - GRILLED PORK SHOULDER WITH FRESH HERBS AND ROASTED GARLIC

Category: Pork I - Tenderloins and Roasts

Brine
1/3 cup sea salt
1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
1 garlic head, cut in half
10 peppercorns
2 dried bay leaves
2 whole allspice berries
4 juniper berries
Stems from 1 bunch parsley (save leaves for Garlic Herb Rub)
1 bone-in pork shoulder (5 lbs.; also called butt), excess fat removed (leave a thin layer)

Garlic Herb Rub
3 garlic heads
About 1/3 cup olive oil
1 bunch fresh oregano or marjoram
2 to 3 sprigs (5 in.) fresh rosemary
Leaves from 1 bunch flat-leaf parsley
1/4 teaspoon dried culinary lavender
Sea salt and pepper

Brine pork: Simmer all brine ingredients in a large stockpot with 3 cups water, stirring occasionally, until salt dissolves. Remove from heat and add 9 cups cold water. Let cool. Add pork and chill, covered, at least 1 day and up to 2.

Begin rub while pork is brining: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Slice garlic heads in half crosswise and set on a sheet of foil. Drizzle with about 1 1/2 tbsp. oil and enclose in foil. Roast 40 minutes, or until cloves are buttery soft. Let cool.

Remove pork from refrigerator about 45 minutes before cooking, drain, dry thoroughly with paper towels, and let sit at room temperature.

Pull oregano and rosemary leaves from stems; chop finely, along with parsley leaves. Crush lavender in a mortar with a pestle (or put in a resealable plastic bag and pound with a meat mallet). Squish garlic cloves from their skins into a small bowl. Add 1/4 cup oil and smash garlic into a paste with a spoon. Stir in herbs and lavender; season lightly with salt and pepper. Pat garlic herb paste all over pork.

Ignite 45 to 50 briquets in a chimney starter on a fireproof surface (not on fire grate). Set a drip pan (roughly 6 by 8 in.) in center of fire grate and fill halfway with water. When coals are coated with ash (about 15 minutes), use tongs to arrange on either side of drip pan. Set cooking grate in place. Cover grill and, if your grill does not have a built-in thermometer, insert a smoker thermometer through lid vent. Close grill vents as needed to bring temperature down to 300 degrees (you may need to remove coals to get the temperature down; return them to the chimney starter).

Put meat, fat side up, on cooking grate over drip pan and cover grill. Grill pork, keeping the temperature between 250 degrees and 300 degrees and adding 5 or 6 coals to either side of drip pan every 30 minutes or so, until an instant-read thermometer inserted into pork registers 160 degrees, about 4 1/2 hours. Let pork rest 15 minutes before carving. Serves 6-8


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