Melt In Your Mouth Pork Loin Food

MELT-IN-YOUR-MOUTH PORK ROAST

Steps:

• 1. In a small prep bowl, mix the rosemary, garlic, thyme, black pepper, and olive oil.
• 2. Place the roast into a baking dish, and throughly rub the spice mixture into the meat. Note: If you like garlic as much as I do (it keeps away the vampires), take a small pairing knife and cut slits into the skin about 1.5 inches (3.5cm) deep and insert whole peeled cloves of garlic deep into the slits. The garlic will mellow as the pork cooks, and infuse some awesome garlic flavor into the meat.
• 3. Cover the dish, and let the roast rest in the refrigerator for a minimum of two hours, or overnight. Cook's Note: You might consider a brine for the pork roast. Brining can add up to 15 percent more moisture to the pork loin.
• 4. Before cooking, remove from the refrigerator, and let stand, covered, at room temperature for 1 hour... no more. Note: If it's a very hot day in your kitchen, and you're worried about generating nasty bacteria, you can skip this step.
• 5. Place a rack in the middle position of your oven, and then preheat to 350f (175c).
• 6. Cook, uncovered for about one hour, or until the roast hits an internal temperature of 140f (60c). Cook's Tools: The image on the left is of the Thermapen instant read digital thermometer. It's considered one of the most expensive of it's kind... typically running about 100 U.S. dollars. However, every restaurant that I've worked in used this brand, and if you need quick/accurate temperature readings... this is one to get.
• 7. Remove from oven, tent with foil, and allow to rest for 15 minutes before carving. Cooking Tip: As the roast rests the internal temperature will continue to increase 6 to 8 degrees. And since the government suggests pork be cooked to 145f (63c), you're right in the perfect range for a pork loin roast. This process of the roast continuing to cook outside the oven is called: Carry-over Cooking.
• 8. Why do we let a roast rest before carving? As meat proteins are heated during cooking, they coagulate and squeeze out some of the moisture inside their coiled structures and in the spaces between the individual molecules. The heat drives this liquid toward the center of the meat. As meat rests, this process is partially reversed. The moisture that is driven toward the center of the meat is redistributed as the protein molecules relax and are able to reabsorb some moisture. As a result, less juice runs out of the meat when you cut into it.
• 9. Presentation Pork goes with so many side dishes... How about some black beans and rice, a few pan-fried plantains, or just a few roasted young potatoes, and some applesauce. Enjoy... Keep the faith and keep cooking

ASIAN-GLAZED 'MELT-IN-YOUR-MOUTH' PORK TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• To make the brine, mix together the water, 1/2 cup brown sugar, salt, 2 tablespoons ginger, onion, lemon, 5 cloves of garlic, and 1/2 cup teriyaki sauce in a large container. Add the pork tenderloin, cover, and refrigerate for 2 to 8 hours.
• For the glaze, whisk together 1/2 cup teriyaki sauce, sweet and sour sauce, hoisin sauce, 4 cloves of garlic, 2 tablespoons ginger, brown sugar, and orange juice.
• Prepare an outdoor grill for high heat.
• Cook the pork tenderloin on the preheated grill until no longer pink in the center, 7 to 12 minutes per side. Remove the tenderloin from the grill and cover with foil; allow to rest for 10 minutes. To serve, brush with glaze, and cut into thin slices.

MELT IN YOUR MOUTH PORK TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• Place pork in marinade, turning often to make sure meat is completely exposed to the mixture.
• Place meat and marinade into roasting pan in a 475°F oven for 15 minutes.
• Lower temperature to 325°F and cover with aluminum foil.
• Cook for 3 hours.
• Remove meat from roasting pan to a platter and allow it to rest 1/2 hour before slicing and serving.
• For the Gravy: Dissolve corn starch in water and add the ingredients for the gravy (above) to the juices left in the roasting pan.
• Heat on stovetop, on medium heat and stir until it thickens.
• It's ready to serve with stir fried mushrooms, broccoli, red sweet pepper, cauliflower and carrots!

MELT-IN-YOUR-MOUTH BARBECUED RIBS

Steps:

• Place the spareribs in the bottom of a slow cooker. In a medium bowl, whisk together the remaining ingredients. Reserve 6 tablespoons for BBQ Pizza.
• Pour the mixture over the spareribs. Cover and cook on LOW for 6 to 8 hours or on HIGH for 3 to 4 hours.
• Reserve 1/2 of the ribs and pull the meat from the bones for the BBQ Pizza recipe.

MELT-IN-YOUR-MOUTH SMOKED PORK BACK RIBS

Steps:

• Preheat smoker to 225 degrees F (110 degrees C).
• Mix paprika, chili powder, onion powder, cayenne pepper, salt, and pepper together in a small bowl. Rub evenly over both sides of ribs. Place ribs, back-side down, on a wire rack.
• Place rack in the preheated smoker. Add apple wood chips according to manufacturer's instructions. Smoke ribs until meat shrinks away from the bones, about 5 1/2 hours.
• Remove ribs from smoker; cover with barbeque sauce. Wrap with aluminum foil. Let rest for 30 minutes.

PORK CHOPS THAT MELT IN YOUR MOUTH

Steps:

• 1. Place just enough oil In skillet to barely cover bottom, heat to med-high heat, In meantime, season & lightly flour chops, if using panko you might need to rub a little olive oil on the meat to help the panko adhere. Preheat oven to 375.
• 2. Lightly brown both side of chops, place on baking sheet ( you can spray baking sheet with spray oil but not needed unless pork is very lean). Pop in 375 oven for 25 to 35 min. depending on thickness of chops.
• 3. NOTE: If using cube steak, reduce oven time to about 20 min.

NANA'S MELT IN YOUR MOUTH BLUE CHEESE PORK CHOPS

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 250.
• Season the chops on both sides with salt, pepper and a little garlic powder.
• Lightly coat the chops in the sesoned flour.
• Heat oil in skillet and brown chops on both sides.
• Remove from pan and place in a Dutch Oven or an oven proof pan with a tight fitting lid or one that can be covered with foil.
• place the chops in the pan in a single layer and pour the chicken broth around them.
• Sprinkle the cheese evenly on top of the chops and cover the pan.
• Bake 3 hours on low, checking every so often to make sure they are not getting too dry. If need be add more broth,. but it should be okay. It will make it's own gravy to serve along side or over noodles or rice. We love this dish, my husand frequently requests it for his bithday dinner. Hope you enjoy it too.

MELT IN YOUR MOUTH PORK LOIN

Steps:

• Set oven at 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Take a large sheet of tin foil; shake half of the soup mix in the center of the foil.
• Place your pork loin on the sprinkled soup mix, FAT SIDE UP.
• Shake the rest of the soup mix on the top of the pork loin.
• Drain can of mushrooms well; place over the top of the pork loin.
• Wrap the meat up in the foil. You may need to double wrap depending on the thickness of the meat.
• Place the wrapped up pork loin in a 13 x 9 rectangular pan.
• Bake for 3 to 4 hours depending on the size of the loin; use a meat thermometer if you are not sure.
• You may use the drippings for gravy; I do and it is delicious.