Festive Roast Pork Recipes

FESTIVE PORK ROAST

Steps:

• 1. Marinade: mix wine, sugar, 3 Tbsp. water, vinegar, catsup, oil, soy sauce, garlic, curry powder, ginger, pepper.
• 2. Untie rolled roast and trim fat. Reroll roast. Place meat in plastic bag. Set in shallow dish. Pour marinade into bag and close
• 3. Marinate in refrigerator 6 to 8 hours or overnight, turning bag several times.
• 4. Drain meat. Reserve 1 cup marinade. Place meat in a 325 oven about 2 hours or til meat thermometer reads 160. In a small pan, mix 1/4 cup water an cornstarch. Add marinade. Cook 1 or 2 minutes. Brush roast with marinade. Roast 1 hour more. Brush frequently.

FESTIVE PORK ROAST

Steps:

• Combine the first 10 ingredients in a large shallow dish or a heavy-duty plastic zip-lock freezer bag; add pork.
• Cover or seal and refrigerate 8 hours, turning occasionally.
• Note: you may need to divided the marinade between two zip-lock freezer bags and put one roast in each bag.
• Remove pork from marinade (reserve marinade and add water, if necessary to equal 2 1/2 cups).
• Place pork on a rack in a roasting pan lined with foil.
• In a small saucepan, whisk reserved marinade and cornstarch; place pan over med-high heat.
• Bring to a boil, whisking constantly.
• Cook, whisking constantly, 2-3 minutes or until thickened.
• Remove and reserve 1/4 sauce; set remaining sauce in saucepan aside.
• Broil pork 6 inches from heat for 5 minutes.
• Pour 1 1/2 cups water into pan.
• Lower oven temperature to 325°; bake 1 hour and 30 minutes or until meat thermometer reads 155°, basting with reserved 1/4 cup sauce during the last 15 minutes.
• Remove roast and let stand 10 minutes or until meat thermometer reads 160°.
• Serve with remaining warm sauce.