Best Pork Roast With Winter Fruits And Port Sauce Recipes

ROASTED PORK WITH PORT SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425°F. Spray 15x10x1-inch pan with cooking spray.
• Sprinkle pork with salt and pepper. In 12-inch skillet, heat 6 teaspoons of the oil over medium-high heat. Cook pork in oil 6 minutes, turning once, until golden brown. Place pork in pan, reserving drippings in skillet. Insert ovenproof meat thermometer so tip is in thickest part of pork.
• Roast uncovered 18 to 20 minutes or until thermometer reads 145°F. Cover loosely with foil; let stand at least 3 minutes.
• Meanwhile, add remaining 1 teaspoon oil to drippings in skillet. Add apricots, plums, peaches, cherries and pine nuts. Cook over medium-high heat 3 minutes, stirring frequently, until nuts are toasted. Add wine, juice and cinnamon sticks. Heat to boiling; reduce heat to low. Simmer 5 minutes or until slightly thickened. Stir in broth; simmer 15 minutes longer or until fruit is tender. Slice pork; serve with sauce.

PORK TENDERLOIN WITH PORT SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a medium, heavy-bottomed skillet over high heat.
• Pat pork dry, and season with salt and pepper.
• Cook pork in oil until brown, about 4 minutes or until cooked to desired doneness.
• Transfer to a warm platter; set aside.
• Remove skillet from heat.
• Discard fat, and add port; return skillet to heat.
• Deglaze pan, scraping with a wooden spoon to loosen the browned bits from the bottom.
• Continue cooking until sauce is reduced to about 2 tablespoons.
• Add stock, and cook until sauce is lightly syrupy, about 4 minutes.
• Whisk in butter, a little at a time, gently shaking pan while whisking.
• Stir in vinegar.
• Taste, and adjust for seasoning.
• Spoon sauce over pork, and serve immediately.

DAD'S BASIC MOIST PORK ROAST

Steps:

• Combine oil, pepper, and salt in a bowl; rub oil mixture over pork and refrigerate while oven preheats.
• Preheat an oven to 475 degrees F (245 degrees C).
• Place a roasting rack in a large roasting pan; arrange pork on the roasting rack.
• Roast in preheated oven until pork with browned, about 30 minutes. Remove pork from oven and reduce oven heat to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Allow pork to rest uncovered at room temperature for 30 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read between 115 degrees F (46 degrees C) and 140 degrees F (60 degrees C).
• Return to oven and continue to cook until pork is slightly pink in the center, 15 to 30 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 145 degrees F (63 degrees C).
• Let the roast stand uncovered at room temperature for 15 to 20 minutes before slicing and serving.

ROAST PORK WITH PORT JUS AND CHIPOTLE-GLAZED APPLES

Steps:

• Mix first 4 ingredients and 1/2 cup brown sugar in small bowl. Rub spice mixture over pork. Place in large glass baking dish. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
• Preheat oven to 375°F. Transfer pork to large roasting pan. Reserve juices in glass dish. Roast pork until thermometer inserted into center registers 155°F., about 1 hour 45 minutes, basting with reserved juices from glass dish every 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, combine Port, shallots and remaining 1 tablespoon brown sugar in heavy medium saucepan. Boil until syrupy, about 25 minutes. Add both stocks and thyme. Boil until reduced to 1 1/4 cups, about 30 minutes. Strain sauce. Return to saucepan. Mix any pan drippings from pork into sauce (do not scrape roasting pan). Add butter; whisk until melted. Season with salt and pepper.
• Cut pork into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Divide among 6 plates. Spoon Chipotle-glazed Apples alongside, dividing equally. Spoon sauce over and around pork.

ROAST PORK TENDERLOIN WITH FRESH AND DRIED FRUIT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F. Sprinkle pork with 2 teaspoons rosemary, salt, and pepper. Heat oil in heavy large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Add pork (cut to fit, if necessary) and sauté until brown, turning occasionally, about 10 minutes. Using tongs, transfer pork to plate. Add shallots to skillet and sauté until brown, about 4 minutes. Add apples, kumquats, and cranberries; stir until fruit mixture is heated through, about 1 minute. Add broth, wine, and remaining 1/2 teaspoon rosemary. Boil 1 minute. Return pork and any juices to skillet, turning to coat with sauce.
• Place skillet in oven and roast pork until thermometer inserted into center registers 145°F to 150°F, about 25 minutes. Transfer pork to platter; let stand 10 minutes. If thicker sauce is desired, boil juices in skillet until reduced enough to coat spoon. Season sauce to taste with salt and pepper. Slice pork crosswise and spoon sauce over.

PORK ROAST WITH WINTER FRUITS AND PORT SAUCE

Steps:

• MAKE STUFFING
• Simmer the apricots, prunes, and wine in a small heavy saucepan, covered, 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and let stand 10 minutes.
• Cook the onion and shallot in the butter in a 12-inch heavy skillet over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until softened, 4 to 5 minutes. Add the apple and salt and pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, until apple is just tender, about 5 minutes. Stir in the apricot mixture and cool.
• STUFF AND ROAST PORK
• Preheat the oven to 500°F, with the rack in the middle.
• Make a pocket in the center of the roast by cutting a horizontal 1 1/2-inch-wide slit into one end with a long thin knife and repeating from the opposite end so a pocket runs all the way through. Make a vertical cut through the center (forming a cross) to widen the pocket. Push about 1 cup stuffing into the pocket using a long-handled wooden spoon (you may need to stuff from both sides if roast is long). Reserve the remaining stuffing for the sauce.
• Season the roast with salt and pepper and put in a large flameproof roasting pan. Wrap with the bacon between rib bones, tucking the ends under the roast. Roast the pork 20 minutes, then reduce the oven to 325°F and roast until an instant-read thermometer inserted 2 inches into the center (do not touch bone or stuffing) registers 155°F, 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours total.
• Transfer the roast to a cutting board and let stand, loosely covered with foil, 15 to 20 minutes. (Temperature of the meat will rise to about 160°F; meat will be slightly pink.)
• MAKE SAUCE
• Skim the fat from the pan drippings and reserve 1 1/2 tablespoons fat. Straddle the pan across 2 burners and add port to drippings, then deglaze by boiling over high heat, stirring and scraping up browned bits, 1 minute. Strain the pan juices through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, discarding the solids.
• Cook the shallot in the reserved fat in a heavy medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 3 minutes. Stir in the pan juices, 1 1/4 cups water, and any reserved fruit stuffing and bring to a simmer. Whisk together the arrowroot and remaining 1/4 cup water until smooth, then whisk into the sauce along with any juices from the cutting board. Simmer the sauce, whisking occasionally, until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
• Carve the roast into chops by cutting between ribs, then serve with the sauce.
• DO AHEAD
• The STUFFING can be made 2 days ahead and chilled. The UNCOOKED ROAST improves in flavor if stuffed, seasoned, and wrapped with bacon 1 day ahead and chilled. Bring to room temperature before roasting.