PORK LOIN RECIPE DUTCH OVEN RECIPES

Steps:

• Trim some fat from chops.
• Place fat in dutch-oven.
• Over medium heat; cook fat until light brown.
• Using spoon press and rub fat over bottom of dutch oven.
• Discard extra fat.
• Add Chops and cook until browned on both sides.
• Remove chops and set aside.
• In remaining fat cook potatoes, carrots and onions until lightly browned; stirring occasionally.
• Adding salad oil if necessary.
• Return chops to dutch oven.
• Arranging vegetables over and around chops.
• Stir in tomatoes with there liquid and remaining ingredients except peas.
• Heat to boiling.
• Reduce heat to low.
• Cover and simmer 45 minutes or until chops and potatoes are tender.
• Add peas and heat threw.

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350°F.
• Melt lard in cast iron dutch oven, or very heavy bottomed pot with lid, over medium high heat.
• Salt and pepper all sides of pork roast.
• When lard just begins to give off smell of being hot, place roast in pot.
• DO NOT move it for a minute or so, then rotate it to brown all sides.
• Lay garlic cloves and onion slices around the roast and stir to brown them a bit.
• Mix Kitchen Bouquet into the 2 cups of water.
• Pour in the water mixture.
• Bring to a boil.
• Cover tightly and place in lower portion of the oven.
• Roast 1 hour for boneless roast; 1-3/4 hours for bone-in roast.
• Half-way through roasting time turn the roast over.
• Remove roast from pan and cover to keep hot.
• Mix 2 Tablespoons cornstarch into 1/2 cup water.
• Using a whisk, stir the cornstarch mixture into the pot drippings, breaking up the garlic cloves as you mix.
• Bring to a boil, taste and season if needed with salt and/or pepper.
• NOTE: Pork roast made this way is ALWAYS tender.
• It makes wonderful hot pork sandwiches!
• The gravy is out of this world!