Best Rosemary Roasted Pork Loin Recipes

ROSEMARY-SCENTED PORK LOIN STUFFED WITH ROASTED GARLIC, DRIED APRICOTS AND CRANBERRIES AND PORT WINE PAN SAUCE

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to upper-middle position and heat oven to 250 degrees. Heat oil in a small skillet over medium-low heat. Add whole garlic cloves and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and golden, about 5 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon; reserve oil.
• Turn pork loin fat-side down. Slit lengthwise, almost but not quite all the way through, to form a long pocket, leaving a 1/2-inch border of unslit meat at each end. Brush cavity with some of the reserved garlic cooking oil, and sprinkle generously with salt and pepper and 1 Tb. of the rosemary. Line cavity with sauteed garlic and apricots; sprinkle in cranberries. Tie loin together with kitchen twine or heavy-duty string at 1 1/2-inch intervals.
• Brush with remaining oil, and sprinkle generously with salt and pepper. Set roast, fat-side up, diagonally or curved (so it fits) on a large, lipped cookie sheet or jellyroll pan. Warm 1/4 cup apple jelly along with the minced garlic and remaining rosemary. Brush mixture onto meat.
• Roast until a meat thermometer stuck into the center registers 125 to 130 degrees. (Start checking at about 1 1/2 hours.) Remove from oven; raise oven temperature to 400 degrees. Brush loin with pan drippings, return to oven, and continue to roast until the loin is golden brown and a meat thermometer stuck into the center registers 145 degrees F (63 degrees C), about 20 minutes longer. For even more attractive coloring, broil until spotty brown, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Let roast rest 15 to 20 minutes; transfer to a carving board. Stir juices around pan to loosen brown bits. Pour through a strainer into a small pan, and stir in port, chicken broth and remaining 2 Tbs. of jelly; bring to a simmer. Mix cornstarch with a couple of tablespoons of cold water; whisk into sauce. Simmer until lightly thickened. Slice pork and serve with a little sauce.

ROASTED PORK LOIN WITH ROSEMARY AND GARLIC

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Rub the pork loin with rosemary, garlic, salt and pepper and place it in a roasting pan. Pour the wine into the bottom of the pan.
• Roast the pork for about 1 1/2 hours, basting occasionally with the wine and juices from the bottom of the pan. The pork is cooked when a meat thermometer measures 160°F.
• Remove it from the oven and let the meat rest about 15 minutes before slicing.

GARLIC ROSEMARY ROASTED PORK LOIN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Crush garlic with rosemary, salt and pepper, making a paste.
• Pierce meat with a sharp knife in several places and press the garlic paste into the openings.
• Rub the meat with the remaining garlic mixture and olive oil.
• Place pork loin into oven for 2 hours, turning and basting with pan liquids.
• After 2 hours remove pork roast to a platter.
• Heat the wine in the pan and stir to loosen browned bits of food on the bottom.
• Serve with pan juices.

GARLIC ROSEMARY ROASTED PORK LOIN WITH GRAVY

Steps:

• 1. Assemble and prep all ingredients.
• 2. Place roast on your preferred, flat work surface. (I use a piece of freezer paper on a counter.)
• 3. Tie roast in the butcher's style or tie with several lengths of butchers twine around roast. (This helps to ensure a more uniform shape and even cooking.)
• 4. Use a paring knife to make a dozen or more 2 inch deep narrow and fairly evenly spaced slits in roast.
• 5. Insert a sliver of garlic and a small sprig of rosemary "leaves" (NOT the whole stem,) rather deeply, into each slit.
• 6. Thread a stem of rosemary under the twine down the center of one or both sides of the roast (optional.)
• 7. Sprinkle generously with salt and fresh ground black pepper, then drizzle and rub all sides of the roast with olive oil.
• 8. Place oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350 degrees F. (Photo: meat lifters & heavy duty tongs)
• 9. Drizzle enough olive oil into a large skillet to cover the bottom; on medium-high heat on stove top, heat oil to a shimmer.
• 10. Place roast in hot skillet and brown on all sides for approximately 1 1/2 to 2 minutes each turn. (Use sturdy tongs or meat forks to turn roast.)
• 11. Remove from heat; cover skillet with lid or tightly fitted aluminum foil.
• 12. Bake at 350 degrees F for approximately one hour or until meat thermometer inserted into center of thickest part reads 150 degrees F. (If roast looks a little pale, increase oven temperature to 475 degrees F, remove lid or foil, remove rosemary stem/stems from underneath twine and roast for an additional 10 to 15 minutes to brown.
• 13. Transfer roast to platter; tent with foil; let rest while making gravy.
• 14. Gravy: Pour juices from pan into fat separator or skim fat from juice. (You should have about 1/2 cup juice.) Pour juice, from separator or skillet, into measuring cup or bowl; whisk in 1/4 cup all purpose flour until smooth.
• 15. Pour into skillet, add 2 cups pork or chicken broth; stirring constantly, bring to boil over medium-high heat for 2 to 3 minutes.
• 16. Stir in 1 teaspoon soy sauce, 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar and salt and pepper to taste.
• 17. When thickened to desired consistency, remove from heat, cover and keep warm until served.
• 18. Cut and remove twine and rosemary branches from roast. Slice as desired.
• 19. Serve with gravy. Garnish with rosemary stems or sprigs, if desired.
• 20. Cover and refrigerate all leftovers.

MORTADELLA-STUFFED PORK LOIN WITH ROSEMARY ROASTED POTATOES

Steps:

• Prepare pork:
• Preheat oven to 450°F.
• Coarsely crush peppercorns and 2 teaspoons kosher salt with mortar and pestle, then add garlic and mash until a paste forms. Stir in unsalted butter.
• If pork loin has been tied, discard strings. Put loin, fat side down, on a cutting board lined with plastic wrap. Butterfly pork in a spiral cut: Find beginning of a flap on 1 long side of loin (where bone was removed). Starting at inside edge of flap, make a long cut lengthwise down side of loin with a very sharp boning or paring knife, stopping 1 inch from bottom (this is beginning of spiral). Turn knife parallel to bottom of loin and begin to cut your way inward (parallel to bottom), keeping thickness of meat as even as possible, using your other hand to gently lift and pull top portion of meat away from knife, until loin is 1 long flat piece of meat.
• Cover pork with a sheet of plastic wrap and pound to 1/2 inch thick with a smooth meat pounder or rolling pin. Remove plastic wrap and spread 1 tablespoon truffle butter over pork. Top with half of mortadella, slightly overlapping slices. Spread 1 tablespoon truffle butter over mortadella, then top with remaining mortadella and spread with remaining tablespoon truffle butter. Beginning with end that was interior of loin, roll up loin tightly and arrange, seam side down (fat side up), on cutting board. If fat layer is 1/4 inch thick, make very close crosswise cuts in it (about 1/8 inch apart; do not cut through to meat), then tie with kitchen string at 1-inch intervals. Rub roast all over with peppercorn butter, covering fat layer well.
• Put pork, fat side up, on oiled rack in roasting pan and roast in middle of oven 20 minutes.
• Prepare potatoes:
• While pork is roasting, peel and halve potatoes. Parboil potatoes in a 5- to 6-quart pot of boiling salted water 5 minutes. Drain in a colander 5 minutes, then toss with oil, rosemary, remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt, and pepper in a large bowl.
• Remove pork from oven and reduce oven temperature to 325°F. Add potatoes to roasting pan, turning them in pan juices to coat, then roast pork with potatoes until thermometer inserted diagonally 2 inches into meat registers 155°F, 45 to 55 minutes. Transfer pork to a platter and let stand 25 minutes.
• Increase oven temperature to 450°F and remove rack from roasting pan. Spread potatoes out in pan and roast in middle of oven, stirring every 5 minutes, until golden brown, about 20 minutes more. Transfer to a serving bowl and keep warm.
• Make sauce:
• Skim as much fat as possible from pan juices. Straddle roasting pan across 2 burners, then add broth and deglaze pan by boiling over high heat, stirring and scraping up brown bits, 1 minute. Stir together water and cornstarch, then add to broth mixture and boil, whisking, 1 minute. Remove from heat and whisk in truffle butter.
• Discard string, then slice pork and serve with sauce and potatoes.

ROASTED PORK LOIN WITH ROSEMARY , LAVENDER AND GARLIC

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F 2. Rub the pork loin with rosemary, lavender, garlic, salt and pepper and place it in a roasting pan. Pour the wine into the bottom of the pan.
• Roast the pork for about 1 1/2 hours, basting occassionally with the wine and juices from the bottom of the pan. The pork is cooked when a meat thermometer measures 160°F
• Remove it from the oven and let the meat rest about 15 minutes before slicing.

ROSEMARY ROASTED PORK LOIN

Steps:

• DIRECTIONS.
• Pound garlic, rosemary, sage, and pepper with pestle in mortar until paste forms. Alternatively, puree ingredients in mini food processsor. Mix in oil. Place pork in baking dish. Spread herb mixture all over pork. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place pork fat side up, on rack set in heavy roasting pan. Drape pancetta strips crosswise over pork. Roast until thermometer inserted into center of pork registers 160 degrees F for medium doneness, about 1 hour. REmove fromoven; let stand 5 minutes. Discard pancetta strips.
• Cut pork crosswise into 1/3 - inch thick slices. Arrange pork slices on platter. Garnish with rosemary sprigs. If desired, and serve.

BALSAMIC ROSEMARY PORK LOIN WITH ROASTED POTATOES

Steps:

• 1. preheat oven to 450 2. in food processor, combine rosemary, garlic, oil, vinegar, salt and pepper. pulse to a coarse wet paste 3. spread 3/4 past on all sides of roast. place fat side up in shallow roasting pan, big enough to leave about 3 inches around all sides. 4. cook 15 minutes 5. meanwhile, in large bowl, mix potatoes and remaining paste. reduce oven tempt to 350. place coated potatoes around roast 6. cook 50-60 minutes, tossing potatoes after 30 minutes. cook until roast internal temp is 150. if potatoes aren't done, transfer roast to cutting board and continue cooking potatoes. 7. remover roast from oven. let rest 10 minutes. slice and arrange with potatoes.

PORK LOIN ROASTED WITH ROSEMARY AND GARLIC

Steps:

• Turn the pork loin fat side down. Make deep slits all over, especially in the thick part. Put the garlic, rosemary and at least a teaspoon of salt and pepper (more will give a truly authentic Tuscan flavor) into a food processor and blend to a paste. Push this paste into all the slits in the meat and spread the remainder over the surface of the meat. Roll up and tie with fine twine.
• Weigh the meat and calculate the cooking time, allowing 25 minutes per pound. At this stage you can cover it with plastic wrap and chill for several hours to deepen the flavor. When ready to cook, preheat oven to 450 or as high as your oven will go. Uncover pork and brown all over in a hot skillet. Transfer pork to roasting pan, then pour the wine over it and tuck in the rosemary sprigs.
• Roast for 20 minutes. turn down the heat to 400 and roast for the remaining calculated time, basting the pork loin every 20 minutes
• Remove pork from oven and let rest in warm place for 15 minutes before carving into thick slices. Serve with pan juices. Serves 6

ROSEMARY ROASTED PORK LOIN

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Pound the garlic, rosemary and sage to a smooth paste in a mortar and pestle or puree in a spice mill. Add salt and pepper to taste. Insert a long, slender object, such as a sharpening steel, through the roast, from one end of the loin to the other, making a tunnel through the center. Stuff half the herb paste into this tunnel, working from both ends, pushing it in with your fingers. Rub the roast with the olive oil, season with salt and pepper, and rub the remaining herb paste on top of the roast. Tie the rosemary sprigs on the roast lengthwise with butcher's string. Place the roast on a rack in a roasting pan in the oven. Roast at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. Reduce the heat to 325 degrees, add the 1 cup wine and the broth to the roasting pan, and continue roasting until the pork is cooked, 1¼ to 1½ hours. Add broth and wine as necessary to keep about ½ inch liquid in the roasting pan. Baste the pork often with the pan juices. This is most easily done with a bulb baster. When the pork is cooked, the internal temperature will register about 160 degrees. Transfer the roast to a carving board, cover with foil, and let stand for 5 minutes. Meanwhile, strain the pan juices into a gravy separator. Deglaze the roasting pan by placing it over a top burner at high heat, adding the ¼ cup wine, and bringing it to a boil. Simmer for 2 minutes, scraping the bottom of the pan to dissolve any congealed juices. Add this mixture to the gravy separator. Pour off the pan juices into a sauce boat, leaving the fat behind. Season the juices with salt and pepper. To serve, remove the string and rosemary sprigs. Slice the roast widthwise and serve with the pan juices on the side.