- Difficulty
- moderate
- Dinner
- March 20, 2016
Roasted Pork Loin With Pear Sauce Recipe.
This simple, rustic recipe is a delicious way to make a pork loin really shine. Such a lean cut of pork can be tricky to roast, but wrapping it in bacon helps keep it juicy and tender, and the sweet pear sauce adds a nice touch of sweetness on top of the savory meat. For extra flavor, you even get to use the sauce twice: some of it is cooked with the pork, and the rest is reserved for serving.
PrintRoasted Pork Loin With Pear Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 pork loin, about 4 to 5 lbs.
- 5 good slices of bacon;
- 5 onions, peeled and halved;
- 2 lemons, halved;
- 1 head garlic, halved;
- 4 sprigs fresh rosemary;
- 4 sprigs fresh sage;
- 4 sprigs fresh thyme;
- Cooking fat;
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper;
Ingredients for the pear sauce
- 2 cups beef stock;
- 2 cup fresh apple juice;
- 1/4 cup maple syrup; (optional)
- 1-inch fresh ginger, minced;
- 1 shallot, thinly sliced;
- 1 cinnamon stick;
- 2 pears, peeled and diced;
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper;
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375 F.
- Melt some cooking fat in a large skillet and brown the pork on all sides over a high heat.
- Place the browned pork in a roasting pan and wrap with the bacon slices.
- Pack in the remaining ingredients all around the roast.
- Place the roasting pan in the oven and roast for 1 hour.
- In a saucepan, combine all the ingredients for the pear sauce. Season to taste and bring to a boil; then let simmer until reduced by half.
- Pour half of the sauce over the pork roast now, and reserve the rest for later.
- Return the roast to the oven and cook for another 30 minutes, basting every 10 minutes.
- Serve the roast with the remaining sauce.
