Roast Loin Of Pork With Apple And Sage Stuffing Recipes

PORK ROAST WITH SAUSAGE-APPLE STUFFING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Melt butter and add onions, celery and apples.
• Cook until soft.
• Add crumbs, then add ground pork, sausage, and seasonings; mix thoroughly.
• Salt and pepper crown roast generously.
• Rub with a little sage.
• Fill center of crown roast with stuffing, mounding center slightly.
• Cover with foil and wrap bone ends with additional foil.
• Roast in hot oven for 3 hours or until meat thermometer reads 175 degrees.
• About 30 minutes before roast is done, remove foil from stuffing.
• Transfer roast to a large heated platter and remove foil.
• Add frills to each little ‘leg’ if desired, and rest meat about 10 minutes before carving.
• Decorate roast on platter with a round of small potatoes, large mushrooms, or cooked red cabbage.

ROAST PORK LOIN WITH APPLES, POTATOES & SAGE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. In small bowl stir 1 tbsp butter, 1 tbsp chopped sage, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp pepper. With hands rub this mixture all over pork.
• In 15x10 jelly-roll pan melt the remaining butter in oven. Remove pan from oven. Add potatoes, onion, 1/2 tsp salt, and remaining chopped sage. Toss to coat. Push potatoes and onion to edge of pan and set small roasting rack in center. Place pork on the rack. Roast 20 minutes.
• Add apples to pan around the pork, and roast 30 to 40 minutes longer, depending on the thickness of pork, or until meat thermometer inserted into center of pork reaches 145 degrees F.
• Transfer pork to a warming platter; let stand 15 minutes to set juices. Transfer potatoes, onion, and apples to platter around the pork. Pour pan drippings into a small bowl; skim off fat from drippings. Serve with pork.