How To Make Maple Sugar-Ginger Roast Pork
To make this luscious roast pork dish, pork loin is marinated in a sweet, and herby mixture of ginger, crushed red pepper, and maple sugar.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2½lbspork loin roast,boneless
- 2clovegarlic
- 2tbspmaple sugar
- 1½tspfresh ginger,finely grated
- ½tspkosher salt
- ¼tspred pepper,crushed
- 2tbspextra-virgin olive oil
- Blood orange slices
Instructions
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Using a small, sharp knife, make thin slits all over the pork loin roast and slip a garlic slice into each one. In a small bowl, mix the maple sugar with the ginger, salt, red pepper, and olive oil.
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Rub the paste all over the pork, wrap it well in plastic, and refrigerate overnight in a small roasting pan; let stand at room temperature for 1 hour before roasting.
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Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Roast the pork for 10 minutes. Lower the oven temperature to 400 degrees F and roast the pork for about 35 minutes longer, until an instant-read thermometer inserted in the thickest part registers 135 degrees F.
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Transfer the roast to a cutting board and let rest for 15 minutes before slicing. Discard the string and carve the pork into thin slices.
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Arrange on a platter, garnish with the orange slices, red currants, and mint, and serve.
Nutrition
- Calories: 329.31kcal
- Fat: 21.24g
- Saturated Fat: 6.65g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 10.42g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.26g
- Carbohydrates: 4.72g
- Fiber: 0.51g
- Sugar: 3.80g
- Protein: 28.23g
- Cholesterol: 89.30mg
- Sodium: 188.96mg
- Calcium: 37.07mg
- Potassium: 551.81mg
- Iron: 1.21mg
- Vitamin A: 5.19µg
- Vitamin C: 11.87mg
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