>Roast_Pork
Last Edit: Oct. 22, 2018, 12:11 a.m.
- 1 Pork loin with fat cap ~ 2lb
- 1 Small/medium onion sliced into thin slivers
- 1 Stick of butter
- 1 tsp celery flakes
- 6 slices of bread, stale and/or toasted. Diced into cubes.
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 1/2 tsp dried sage
- 1 tsp salt
- Extra salt
- 1/8 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1 Large potato. Diced into cubes.
- 1 Cup carrots. Diced into cubes.
- Olive oil
- 4 cloves of garlic - sliced into flats.
- Pre-heat oven to 350 F.
- Slice a diamond pattern in the fat cap on the pork. Make sure they are 1/2" diamonds or larger. Otherwise they will be too easy to break off while cooking.
- Generously rub salt into the slices on the pork fat.
- Heat some olive oil in a dutch oven on high until the oil shimmers.
- Add the pork in fat-side down. Cook until thoroughly browned.
- Flip the pork over and reduce heat to medium.
- Once brown, remove pork and set aside.
- Add onions and cook till browned.
- Add stick of butter and all other ingredients except for the bread.
- Cook till butter is melted then add bread and fold in to coat.
- Move the ingredients to the side of the pan and add the pork back into the pot fat side up in the middle directly on the pan.
- Stir the dressing around the pork one more time and cover.
- Cook covered in the oven for 30 minutes.
- Uncover and cook for 15 minutes or until pork reaches 145 F internal temperature.
- Broil for 5 minutes to re-crisp the top of the pork and dry out the surface of the dressing.
- Remove from oven and allow to rest for 5 minutes before carving pork and serving.