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Mangalitsa Picnic Roast | The Wagyu of Pork — Pasture-Raised

Mangalitsa Picnic Roast | The Wagyu of Pork — Pasture-Raised

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Heritage Mangalitsa Pork · Pasture-Raised
The pig that was bred to be fat.
The Mangalitsa is a lard hog — a breed kept for its fat, not in spite of it. A picnic roast is where that shows up best, because the fat has hours to do its work.
3.5
Pounds, about
6–8
Hours, low & slow
200°F
Pull it here
What makes it different
Modern commodity pork
was bred lean for sixty years. It cooks up pale, and it dries out the moment you look away.
Mangalitsa
was never bred lean. The marbling runs down through the muscle, so a long cook bastes the roast from the inside instead of drying it out.
The picnic is the lower half of the shoulder — more connective tissue than the butt, which is exactly what you want when you have all afternoon.
From the farm
Save the fat that renders out. A Mangalitsa shoulder throws off more lard than any pig we raise, and it is the best fat in this kitchen for roast potatoes and pie crust.
How to cook it
01
Season it the night before. Salt it and leave it uncovered in the refrigerator. The surface dries, and that is where the bark comes from.
02
Low and slow, fat cap up. 250°F in a smoker or 275°F in the oven.
03
Cook to tender, not to a number. Pork is safe at 145°F with a three-minute rest — but a shoulder is not done until the collagen breaks down, around 195–205°F. A probe should slide in with no resistance.
04
Rest a full hour, then pull it. Wrap it and leave it alone. This is the step people skip and regret.
What you're getting
One picnic roast — about 3.5 lb
Pure Mangalitsa — the heritage lard breed, not a crossbred commodity hog
Pasture-raised on our farm — no antibiotics, no added hormones
Raised in Monticello, Kentucky — USDA inspected
Who vouches for us
Homegrown By Heroes
Homegrown By Heroes
Farmer veteran certified
Weston A. Price Foundation
Weston A. Price
Wise Traditions listed
Kentucky Proud
Kentucky Proud
KY Dept. of Agriculture
Appalachia Proud
Appalachia Proud
Mountains to Market
USDA inspected · Processed at USDA-inspected facilities in Science Hill, Kentucky and Walling, Tennessee

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