Recipe of the week

Apple and Spice Pork Roast

Serves 8-10
Wine pairing -Sutter Home White Zinfandel

          apple pork

Ingredients:

 3lb  Roasted lean pork roast, center loin
 1/3 Cup  Packed brown sugar
 1/8 tsp  Garlic powder
 1/2 tsp  Hannaford salt
 1/8 tsp  Black pepper
 1/8 tsp  Clove spice, ground
 1 Tbs  Hannaford all purpose flour
 1 Cup  Canned unsweetened applesauce
 1/4 tsp  Hannaford sugar
 1 tsp  Yellow Mustard
 2 tsp  Distilled vinegar

 

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Stir together applesauce, brown sugar, vinegar, mustard and cloves in small bowl; refrigerate half of the applesauce mixture and set aside remaining mixture.
  3. Combine flour, salt, sugar, garlic powder and black pepper in another small bowl.
  4. Rub flour mixture evenly over entire surface of pork.
  5. Place pork on rack in shallow roasting pan; roast, uncovered, until internal temperature is 140 degrees F. S
  6. Spoon reserved applesauce mixture over roast and cook until internal temperature is 155 degrees F, 1 to 1 1/2 hours total cooking time (about 18 to 20 minutes per pound).
  7. Transfer roast to serving platter; cover with foil and let stand for 15 minutes before slicing.
  8. Heat chilled applesauce mixture in a small saucepan until boiling; boil for 1 minute.
  9. Spoon heated applesauce mixture over pork slices.