Easy Pork Roast Recipe: Roast with Apple Cranberry Stuffing

Ingredients

Stuffing:

  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 3 onions, chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
  • 1 14- to16-ounce package of cornbread stuffing mix
  • 1 cup pecans, chopped
  • 3 apples (such as braeburn), cored, not peeled and chopped
  • 1/2-cup fresh cranberries, chopped

Crown Roast:

  • 1 12 to16 rib crown pork roast
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper

Sauce:

  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 1/4-cup port
  • 1 tablespoon butter

Cooking Instructions

Stuffing:

  1. In large skillet over medium heat heat oil until shimmers. Add onions and cook about 6 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until translucent. Remove from heat and stir in cinnamon, pepper, and allspice to combine.
  2. In large bowl combine onions, stuffing mix pecans, apples, and cranberries.

Pork Roast:

  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Sprinkle roast inside and out with salt and pepper. Add stuffing to inside cavity; do not pack it.
  2. Cook for about 2 hours 20 minutes, or until a thermometer in the thickest part of the meat registers 155 degrees. Remove from oven and cover with aluminum foil. Let rest at least 15 minutes.

Sauce:

  1. Place roasting pan over medium heat; add broth and port. Bring mixture to a boil, scraping up bits on the bottom of the pan. Reduce liquid by about half. Add butter and swirl to combine.

Make-Ahead

  • Stuffing can be made up to 2 days ahead and stored in the refrigerator. It should come to room temperature before stuffing the roast.

Tips & Tricks

 Apples can be chopped by placing in a food processor fitted with steel blade and pulsing to chop.
 Cranberries can be chopped in a food processor fitted with steel blade at the pulse setting. 
 If you do not have a roasting pan large enough use a sided cookie sheet
 If the roast had a good deal of fat, before making the sauce degrease the liquid in the roasting pan.

 

Preparation Time:

30 minutes


Cooking Time:

About 2 hours 30 minutes plus resting time


Ready In:

About 3 hours 15 minutes


How kids can help

  • Measuring the cinnamon, black pepper, allspice, pecans, and cranberries
  • Mixing the stuffing

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