Best 5 Baked Pork Loin Recipes

MAPLE BAKED PORK LOIN ROAST

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat until smoking. Meanwhile, season the pork roast with salt and pepper, then dredge in flour, and shake off excess. Sear in hot oil until browned on all sides, about 1 minute per side.
• Place onto a large sheet of aluminum foil set on top of a baking sheet; set aside. Stir together the maple syrup, ketchup, water, and garlic. Pour 3/4 of this sauce over the pork. Fold the foil over the pork, and seal to form a packet.
• Bake in preheated oven until the internal temperature reaches 170 degrees F (75 degrees C), about 2 hours. Carefully open up the foil packet, and broil for a few minutes until the sauce glazes the meat. Serve with remaining sauce.

BAKED PORK LOIN ROAST

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine the first seven ingredients. With a sharp knife, cut 1/2-in.-deep slits in fat side of roast. Rub spice mixture into slits and over roast. Place roast fat side up in a shallow roasting pan. Place onion and carrots around roast. , Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 1 hour 40 minutes or until tender. Let stand for 15 minutes before carving.

ROAST LOIN OF PORK WITH BAKED APPLES AND CIDER GRAVY

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Place the pork roast in a roasting pan with the ribs facing up, braced against each other. Add sage and thyme to olive oil. Brush the pork roasts with oil mixture and season with a generous amount of salt and pepper. Roast the pork loin for 2 1/2 hours, until the skin is crackled. (Put the apples in the oven along with the pork roast in the last half hour of cooking.)
• Remove the pork roast to a cutting board and let it rest for 15 minutes before carving. Pour out some of the excess fat from the roasting pan and put it on the stove over medium-high heat. Sprinkle the flour into the hot pan juices, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon or whisk to prevent lumps. Cook and stir the roux until its light brown. Add the cider and continue to stir to incorporate. Pour in the chicken broth; boil and stir for 5 minutes until the sauce is thick. Check for seasoning - add lemon juice if necessary. Serve the cider gravy with the pork roast and baked apples.
• To make the buttered apples: Core the apples with an apple corer, making a good size cavity to hold the stuffing. Douse the cut sides of the apples with some of the lemon juice to prevent them from browning while you make the stuffing. In a mixing bowl, combine the softened butter, muffin crumbs, raisins, sage, garlic, brown sugar, salt, and pepper. Spoon the stuffing into the cavities of the cored apples; stand them up, side by side, in a baking dish and sprinkle the tops with the reserved muffin crumbs. Pour the cider around the apples and bake for 30 to 35 minutes at 375 degrees F, until soft when pierced with a knife. Place the warm apples in the center of a round serving dish. Spoon the cider sauce around the apples and serve with the pork loin.

OVEN-BAKED PORK LOIN WITH OLIVE OIL, GARLIC, THYME, AND OREGANO

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine the oil, garlic, thyme, oregano, pepper, and salt.
• Rub the garlic mixture all over the pork.
• Place the pork in a Dutch oven just large enough to hold it snugly, cover with aluminum foil and then the lid and refrigerate overnight, or up to 24 hours.
• Preheat the oven to 450°F.
• Remove the aluminum foil from the Dutch oven, replace the lid and bake for 30 minutes.
• Reduce the oven temperature to 375°FF and bake for 1 hour more, basting twice with the pan juices.
• Uncover, baste again and bake, uncovered, for 20 to 30 minutes more, or until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part registers 155-165°F.
• Remove the pork from the oven, cover and let rest for 1 hour to develop the flavors.
• Reheat in a 375°F oven for about 20 minutes and serve.

ROASTED PORK LOIN WITH BAKED APPLES & CIDER GRAVY

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• 2. Mix sage, thyme and olive oil.
• 3. Place pork roasts in roasting pan with ribs facing up and leaning against each other. Brush with herb and oil mixture and season generously with salt and pepper.
• 4. Roast the pork loin for 2 until the skin starts to crack.
• 5. Place the apples in the pan with the pork roasts and roast for an additional 30 mins. SEE BELOW FOR PREPARATION OF APPLES.
• 6. Remove roasting pan from oven and transfer the pork roast to a cutting board and allow to rest for 15 minutes.
• 7. Transfer some of the fat from the roasting pan into a medium sauce pan over medium-high heat.
• 8. Add flour a little at a time stirring constantly. Cook roux until it becomes nutty in fragrance and about the color of chocolate milk.
• 9. Sip some cider while stirring in 1 cup to the roux.
• 10. Stirring constantly, add chicken stock and stir until sauce is thick.
• 11. Add the lemon juice and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper.
• 12. Core the apples making a good cavity for the stuffing and liberally apply lemon juice to preven browning while making the stuffing.
• 13. To make the stuffing, to a mixing bowl add the butter, cornbread crumbs, raisins, sage, garlic, brown sugar, salt and pepper.
• 14. Stuff the apples with the stuffing mixture and stand them side by side in the roasting pan with the pork loin roasts at about the 2 hour mark as noted above.
• 15. Arrange apples around rested pork loin roasts and spoon the cider gravy over all.