Peppercorn Crusted Pork Loin With Pepper Gravy Food

THE PERFECT PEPPER CRUSTED PORK LOIN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375° Fahrenheit.
• Combine cracked peppercorns, red pepper and salt in a small bowl. Set aside.
• Pat pork loin dry with paper towel. Rub with mustard and garlic, covering all sides and ends. Now, coat all sides and ends with peppercorn rub.
• Heat olive oil in cast iron skillet. When hot, place tenderloin in skillet and sear on all sides. Use tongs to carefully turn the tenderloin. If some of the rub sticks, just scrape from the bottom of the skillet and pat back onto pork loin.
• When pork loin has been seared, place in baking dish and bake at 375° until an inner temperature of 145-150 has been reached (about 40-45 minutes). Remove from oven and let rest 5 minutes before slicing.

PORK TENDERLOIN WITH PEPPERCORN GRAVY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425F.
• Prepare the pork tenderloin by removing the silver skin and any visible fat. Season with some salt and set aside.
• Heat an oven-proof skillet on the stove-top over medium-high heat. Add a splash of olive oil and heat. Add the pork tenderloin and cook, turning as needed, until it is seared and golden on all sides.
• Place skillet with the pork into the preheated oven and cook until the pork reaches an internal temperature of 145F, when measured in the thickest part of the meat, about 20-25 minutes.
• While pork is cooking, gather and measure out your sauce ingredients and have handy.
• Remove skillet from oven. Remove pork to to a cutting board to rest and loosely tent with a piece of aluminum foil.
• Place the hot skillet back on the stovetop over medium-high heat. To the skillet, add butter and melt, scraping up in bits in the bottom of the pan. Add the onions and peppercorns and stir until the onions are starting to colour, about 1 minute. Add the wine and cook, stirring, until mostly evaporated, about 1 minute. Add the broth, Dijon mustard and thyme. Reduce heat to medium and allow sauce to simmer/reduce for a few minutes to blend the flavours and reduce slightly. Add cream, if using and stir to combine and warm through. Taste the sauce and season with salt, as needed. To thicken the gravy, combine cornstarch and water in a small bowl, stirring until smooth. Add a bit at a time to your hot gravy, stirring well after each addition, until desired thickness is achieved.
• Cut pork tenderloin into slices and spoon hot gravy over-top, to serve.

PEPPERCORN CRUSTED PORK LOIN WITH CREAMY SAUCE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Combine mustard and buttermilk. Spread over roast. Combine bread crumbs, pepper, salt, thyme, and peppercorns in a bowl. Press mixture evenly over roast.
• 2. Place roast on broiler pan coated with cooking spray. Bake for 2 hours and meat thermometer reads 160 degrees. Let stand 10 minutes before slicing.
• 3. Combine all ingredients for the creamy peppercorn sauce in a bowl. Serve with pork loin slices.

PEPPER-CRUSTED PORK TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°. Mix first five ingredients. To make a double roast, arrange tenderloins side by side, thick end to thin end; tie together with kitchen string at 1-1/2-in. intervals. Place on a rack in a 15x10x1-in. pan. Spread with mustard mixture; cover with bread crumbs, pressing to adhere. , Bake until a thermometer inserted in pork reads 145°, 30-40 minutes. (Tent loosely with foil if needed to prevent overbrowning.) Let stand 5 minutes. Cut into slices; remove string before serving.

PEPPERCORN PORK TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• Press pepper into all sides of tenderloin.
• Heat butter in a frying pan that just fits the pork and brown over medium high heat.
• Reduce heat to low.
• Pour brandy over the pork.
• Mix remaining ingredients and stir into pan.
• Cover and cook for 20-25 minutes.
• Remove pork and cut into 1/2 inch slices.
• Pour sauce over top.

LOIN OF PORK WITH GREEN PEPPERCORNS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Allow the pork to stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
• Place the pork, fat side up, in a roasting pan just large enough to hold it comfortably. In a small bowl, whisk together the olive oil, 2 teaspoons of each mustard, the fennel seed, 2 teaspoons salt, and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper. Rub the mixture on top of the pork and roast for 1 to 1 1/4 hours, until the internal temperature reaches 140 degrees F. Remove from the oven, transfer to a cutting board, and cover tightly with aluminum foil for 20 minutes.
• For the sauce, remove all but 1/4 cup of fat from the roasting pan. If there isn't 1/4 cup, add enough butter to the pan to make 1/4 cup total. Over medium heat, whisk the flour into the fat in the pan and cook for 1 minute. Add the wine and scrape up all the brown bits from the bottom of the pan. Add the chicken stock, the remaining 2 teaspoons of each mustard, the green peppercorns, 2 teaspoons salt, and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat to a simmer for 5 to 10 minutes, until the sauce is reduced and slightly thickened.
• Remove the strings from the roast pork, slice between the bones, and serve warm with the hot sauce.
• Homemade Chicken Stock:
• 3 (5-pound) chickens
• 3 large onions, unpeeled and quartered
• 6 carrots, unpeeled and halved
• 4 celery stalks with leaves, cut in thirds
• 4 parsnips, unpeeled and cut in half (optional)
• 20 sprigs fresh flat-leaf parsley
• 15 sprigs fresh thyme
• 20 sprigs fresh dill
• 1 head garlic, unpeeled and cut in 1/2 crosswise
• 2 tablespoons kosher salt
• 2 teaspoons whole black peppercorns
• Place the chickens, onions, carrots, celery, parsnips, parsley, thyme, dill, garlic, salt, and peppercorns in a 16 to 20-quart stockpot with 7 quarts of water and bring to a boil. Skim the surface as needed. Simmer uncovered for 4 hours. Strain the entire contents of the pot through a colander, discarding the chicken and vegetables, and chill. Discard the hardened fat, and then pack the broth in quart containers.
• Yield: 6 quarts
• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Cook Time: 4 hours

PEPPERCORN PORK CHOPS WITH WARM PICKLED PEPPER RELISH

Steps:

• Place all peppercorns on a cutting board and use the flat bottom of a heavy pan to crush them as finely or coarsely as you like. Transfer crushed pepper into the pan.
• Make 3 cuts through the fat on each pork chop and season generously with salt. Apply a generous coating of crushed peppercorns to both sides, pressing into the meat firmly as you do, until fully coated.
• Transfer chops to a rack set over a pan and let sit out at room temperature for 1 hour, turning halfway through and reapplying crushed peppercorns as necessary. Or, place in the refrigerator for 4 to 12 hours.
• Meanwhile, prepare the pepper relish while the chops are dry-brining: combine poblano pepper, orange and red bell peppers, garlic, salt, cayenne, and rice vinegar. Mix to combine and cover with plastic wrap. Leave on the counter for 1 hour.
• Heat oil in a pan over medium-high heat until very hot and starting to shimmer. Add pork chops and sear for 5 minutes per side. Use tongs to turn chops while you brown the edges for another 1 to 2 minutes. Reduce heat to medium if the pan is too hot and begins to smoke. Chops should firm up and spring back to the touch. Do not overcook. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read 140 degrees F (60 degrees C).
• Turn off the heat and transfer chops to a plate. Cover loosely with foil and let rest.
• Add chicken broth to the hot pan. Turn heat to high and bring to a rolling boil. Add pickled pepper relish and stir with a spoon, scraping all the bits from the bottom of the pan. Cook until liquid in the pan reduces by about half, about 3 minutes.
• Turn off the heat. Add cold butter and any accumulated juices from the plate of pork and stir until butter has melted.
• Serve pork chops with plenty of hot pickled pepper relish over top.

PORK ROAST WITH PEPPERCORN-MUSTARD CRUST AND CIDER GRAVY

Steps:

• For Pork Roast: Position rack in lowest third of oven and preheat to 475°F Add 1 tablespoon butter to a heavy large skillet over medium-high heat and roast and cook until brown, about 4 minutes per side. Remove from skillet. Cool 10 minutes. Transfer to roasting pan.
• Combine remaining 1/4 cup butter with mustard seeds, flour, sugar, mustard, thyme, and peppercorns in bowl. Spread paste oven top and sides of roast. Roast 30 minutes. Reduce heat to 325 degrees.
• Continue cooking about 1 hour 20 minutes. Transfer roast to cutting board and tent with foil. Transfer 2 tablespoons drippings in pan to heavy small saucepan; discard remaining drippings.
• For Cider Gravy: Heat roasting pan over medium-low heat. Add cider and boil until liquid is reduced to 3/4 cup scraping up any browned bits, about 8 minutes. Stir in apple jack, boil 1 minute.
• Heat drippings in saucepan over medium-high heat. Add flour and stir until golden brown, about 2 minutes. Whisk in cider mixture and stock. Simmer until thickened, stirring occasionally, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Mix in vinegar and mustard. Season with salt and pepper. Carve roast and serve with gravy.

PORK TENDERLOIN WITH MUSTARD-PEPPERCORN CRUST

Steps:

• Pat the tenderloin dry.
• Mix together the mustard and thyme; spread all over the tenderloin.
• Sprinkle all over with the peppercorns.
• Place on a rack in a roasting pan and roast in a 400 degree F oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part registers 160-170 degrees F and juices run clear.
• To serve, cut into 3/4-inch thick slices.

PEPPERCORN CRUSTED PORK LOIN WITH PEPPER GRAVY

Steps:

• Sprinkle the peppercorns on a piece of foil.
• Spray the entire pork loin with cooking spray.
• Roll the tenderloin in the peppercorns until fully crusted and pat them into the meat.
• In a saute pan, quickly brown the pork on all sides.
• Place on a rack, uncovered in a 325 oven and roast for about 2 hours until meat thermometer reaches 170.
• For the Gravy:.
• With whisk mix flour and milk in large pan, add butter, peppercorns and salt.
• Cook until thickened, lower heat, simmer for 15 minutes.
• Slice meat into 1/2" slices.
• Serve with gravy.