Receta Pork w/ Apple, Onion & Hard Cider Sauce
Leaves turning, cooler breezes blowing - time for a comforting pork roast with onions, apples and hard cider. This is a deceptively simple dish that Claire Robinson turned me on to, and is loaded with country flavors. The hard cider reduces down to a savory sauce after Granny Smith apples and sliced onions are caramelized. A very nicely browned pork roast then gets parked in the center of the pool to roast to perfection. A minute of puree action with your wand or blender, a knob of sweet butter and the sauce is reduced to a wonderful gravy. This is a dish we serve with our Garlic Herbed Sweet Potatoes, a side of kale sauted with bacon, red pepper flakes and red wine vinegar. Biscuits with Pear Butter and a fruit dessert round out the meal. Let it snow!
Tiempo de Prep: | American |
Tiempo para Cocinar: | Raciónes: 4 |
Va Bien Con: Kale, crisp green salad
Ingredientes
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Direcciones
- Preheat the oven to 375^
- NOTE: I like to brown a roast in cast iron as the apples and onions are caramelizing in the dutch oven, then I set the roast aside while I deglaze with the cider, then return the roast to the roasting pan, but you may want to cook everything in the dutch oven. If so
- Season your roast well with salt and pepper
- Heat your dutch oven over medium and add 2 Tbs of butter
- Brown the roast in the hot butter on ALL sides
- Remove the roast and set it aside as you
- Add the onions and apples to the dutch oven, stirring to coat and caramelize the produce
- Add the hard cider and deglaze the dutch oven
- Return the roast to the center of the dutch oven and cover
- Oven roast to 145^ - 150^ (about 55 minutes)
- Remove the roast to a carving board to rest
- Use your hand blender, or the food processor or blender and puree the apple, onion cider juices
- Bring the puree to a boil, adjust seasonng to taste
- Reduce the heat to simmer and whisk in a knob of butter, reducing until you know it is a gravy-like sauce
- Slice the roast and plate individually or on a platter, laying down some sauce then the meat, then a run of sauce over the meat
- You can serve the remaining sauce in a boat