Best Pork Picnic Pot Roast Recipes

PORK POT ROAST

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place stock in a sauce pan and heat to hot. Keep burner on low while you sear the pork.
• Salt and pepper all sides of the pork butt. You may use all or some of the salt and pepper listed.
• Heat the olive oil over high heat in a large Dutch Oven and once shimmering hot, start searing the pork. Sear it for 4-5 minutes on each side, including top and bottom. Remove to a platter and lower heat to medium.
• Add the onion, celery and tomato paste and cook for three minutes, stirring often.
• Add pork back in along with hot stock and the parsley.
• Cover and place in the oven for two hours.
• While the roast is cooking, prepare the vegetables and make the roux.
• To make the roux, in a small sauce pan over medium low heat, melt the butter and add the flour. Stir with a wooden spoon and cook for 4-5 minutes until starting to a turn golden color. Set aside.
• After the two hours, remove the pot from the oven and remove the pork and parsley. Discard the parsley.
• With an immersion blender, puree the liquid, onion and celery.
• Add the carrots, potatoes and red onion back into the pot with the liquid and place the pork on top. Cover and cook 40 more minutes.
• Remove from oven and add the green beans. Cover and cook 20 more minutes.
• Remove the pot from the oven and remove the pork to your cutting board and the vegetables to a platter.
• Over medium heat, add all of the roux to the liquid in the pot while whisking and then add the gravy color. Cook for a few minutes and pour into gravy boats. Strain if necessary.
• Slice the pork against the grain into thick slices and serve with the vegetables and gravy.

SLOW ROASTED PORK PICNIC SHOULDER

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450 F/230 C/Gas Mark 8.
• Remove from the oven and let rest for a few minutes before serving.
• Enjoy.

DAN'S FALLIN' APART PORK POT ROAST WITH CRACKED PEPPER GRAVY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). In a mortar, smash together 1/4 cup of garlic powder, 1/4 cup of onion powder, the crushed red pepper flakes, and 1 tablespoon of cracked black pepper until the mixture forms a fine powder. Place the spice mix into a large shallow bowl.
• Inject the pork roast all over with the Creole marinade; blot moisture from the outside of the roast. Rub the spice mix all over the pork roast to thoroughly coat. Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium heat, then cook and stir the shallots and elephant garlic until the garlic becomes lightly golden brown. Sear the coated pork roast in the hot butter on all sides until the spice coating is golden brown, 1 to 2 minutes per side. Place the roast into a roasting pan or Dutch oven with the fat side up; scrape up the butter, cooked shallots and garlic, and sprinkle around the roast. Arrange the sweet onions, red potatoes, carrots, and celery pieces around the roast. Mix 1 cup of water with the remaining spice rub, and pour evenly over roast.
• Cover the roasting pan with a lid, and cook in the preheated oven until the meat is very tender, 3 3/4 to 4 hours.
• Remove the roast and set aside on a serving platter; surround the meat with the cooked vegetables. Whisk 1 tablespoon of cracked black pepper, 2 tablespoons of garlic powder, 1 tablespoon of onion powder, and the brown gravy mix together with 2 cups of water in a bowl, and whisk the mixture into the liquid left in the roasting pan. Place the pan over medium heat, and cook, whisking constantly, until the gravy has come to a boil and has thickened, about 5 minutes. Serve alongside the roast and vegetables.

PORK PICNIC POT ROAST

Steps:

• Season pork roast all over with salt and black pepper and place in a slow cooker. Spread garlic over pork; add carrots, potatoes, onion, and celery to slow cooker. Pour broth over roast and vegetables.
• Cook on High for 2 hours. Baste roast and vegetables with broth cooking liquid; continue cooking on high until tender, 2 hours more. Let rest before slicing, 5 to 10 minutes.

STOVE TOP PORK POT ROAST

Steps:

• Rub the roast all over with thyme, sage and salt and pepper.
• Heat a heavy dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add oil to pan and brown the roast on all sides. Remove roast and saute the onion and garlic. Put the roast back in the pan and add water and reduce heat to medium or medium-low. Cover and simmer until done - about 2 hours. Turn the meat occasionally as water evaporates and then add a little more water.
• To make gravy, remove roast and add the wine and 1/2 cup water to pan. Bring to boil and scrape up brown bits on the bottom of the pan. Bring to a boil until reduces a bit and then add the flour-water paste and whisk in slowly to avoid lumps till reaches the desired thickness. Taste for seasoning.
• If desired, cook 6 small potatoes, 2 medium onions, quartered, 4 medium carrots, peeled and cut into 3 inch pieces and 1 pound button mushrooms in with roast. Add the last hour of cooking.