Brown Sugar Garlic Butter Pork Roast

Recipe video above. Ultra tender pork with an insane caramelised crust and a buttery sweet-savoury sauce. The pairing of the sweet with the savoury is incredible in this pork roast!

Prep time: PT10M

Cook time: PT135M

Total time: PT145M

Rating

4.6 stars (42 reviews)

Keywords

Slow Roast Pork

Ingredients

1.75 - 2kg / 3.5 - 4lb pork shoulder / butt (, cut into 8 equal pieces (Note 1))
1 tsp each salt and pepper
100 g / 7 tbsp unsalted butter
1/2 cup / 80g brown sugar (, loosely packed)
1/4 cup / 65 ml cider vinegar ((white wine or red wine vinegar also fine))
4 garlic cloves (, minced)
1/4 tsp each salt and pepper

Steps

Preheat oven to 160C/320F (standard) or 140C/290F (fan).
Place Sauce ingredients in a saucepan over medium heat. Once better has melted, stir to combine then leave for 1 - 2 minutes until sugar is melted. Remove from heat.
Sprinkle pork pieces all over with salt and pepper.
Line pan with foil then parchment / baking paper, place pork in pan.
Pour Sauce all over pork. Cover with foil. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes.
Remove from oven, remove foil. Turn pork. Return to oven uncovered for 20 minutes.
Remove from oven. Turn pork, spoon pan juices over. Return to oven for 20 - 30 minutes or until pork is golden and sauce has reduced to a thin syrup (thickens more when it cools).
Stand for 5 minutes, then turn pork to coat in sauce. Serve pork with syrupy pan sauce. Pictured in post with this Everyday Cabbage Salad.

Nutitrion

Serving Size: 1 serving
Calories: 770 kcal

Reviews

Myra on 2025-06-17 (5 stars):
My pork (butt) was smaller, 1.5kg, so I cut it into 6. I expected it to be rather like fall apart pulled pork so when it didn’t seem to be, I was paranoid it felt tough so I cooked it for longer (about 50 minutes longer). I probably didn’t need to but it didn’t seem overcooked either. It was tasty and beautifully tender. My sauce didn’t thicken either but OMG!, it was sooo delicious I was tempted to pour it in a cup and drink it! Hubby was also very impressed and loved the cabbage salad too. Will definitely do this again. Thanks from the UK
Kary on 2025-02-11 (5 stars):
Beyond Fantastic. 1/2 of the butter i used was Nagi's cafe de Paris butter that had been in the fridge for a few weeks. Added a tbsp of soy sauce. Just microwaved it all and poured it over the pork in a cast iron pan. Wish I'd doubled the meat as the jackals lost their minds over it. Would be amazing in tacos. Thank-you again for all the Best recipes!
Thu S on 2024-05-16 (5 stars):
Delicious. Just made these. Will definately be saving this recipe.
Leecia on 2024-05-13 (5 stars):
Winner winner chicken dinner, Oops Pork Dinner. We are pork wholesalers my other half has lived Pork from childhood, he was very impressed so thank you thank you for allowing to impress him 🤣
Evelyn Irwin on 2024-04-24 (5 stars):
The recipe is good, but it never darkened or thickened. Too much fat and water came out of the pork. Made tacos with the left overs, topped with the slaw. Delicious.
nicole williams on 2023-07-07 (5 stars):
I make this very frequently now. The only difference is that I add a splash of soy sauce. So good!
Kate on 2022-12-04 (3 stars):
Not sue what I did wrong. This was my first RTI ‘failure’. Followed the recipe exactly and ended up with tough pork in a watery sauce.
Rakel on 2022-11-01 (5 stars):
Very tasty even though we only just threw the shredded meat on buns/barm cakes or what ever they are called, too many names over soft rounded bread :) very filling and our 9 year old daughter missed out big time, been out trick or treating and stuffed out of her face with sweets, well, more for the rest of us :) Thank you and happy Halloween x
Adam on 2022-09-04 (4 stars):
Hi Nagy - delicious recipe! Pork was tender and we served it with the no mayo coleslaw. One thing - I used a scotch fillet and the sauce didn’t really thicken. A lot of moisture came out of the meat so we had to decant it into a saucepan and thicken it on the hob with some cornflour.
Stacey on 2022-05-22 (5 stars):
Sorry I wasn’t meant to click the stars for the review!
Stacey on 2022-05-22 (2 stars):
Hi Nagi, I wanted to make this and ordered a pork slow cook scotch roast from coles, but they substituted it for a ‘pork mini leg roast boneless’ which is approx 1.1kg. Could I use that for this recipe