This amazing Garlic Pork Loin Roast Recipe is served with gravied potatoes. They cook alongside the pork roast making them the perfect side.
Heres a wonderful and easy meal to whip up when you have a little time on your hands, Garlic Pork Loin Roast Recipe with Potatoes. It falls more under the Sunday night dinner category, however, I made this midweek and it was great! This pork roast dish is very similar to the one I grew up eating with a few tweaks. Plus the potatoes cook right along with the pork so you dont need to worry about a side dish!
Pork Loin Roast Recipe
The list of ingredients for this recipe is a little intimidating but dont worry, this Pork Loin Roast Recipe is straight forward. So gather up these ingredients to start your delicious main dish!
- Pork Loin Roast see the guide below to choose the perfect piece of meat for your meal.
- Garlic thinly julienned and rubbed into the pork loin, YUM!
- Olive Oil this is to help the roast cook evenly.
- Salt and Pepper to season the roast and the potatoes.
- Ground Thyme deep earthy taste.
- Rosemary a slightly woodsy flavor that compliments the thyme.
- Potatoes choose a starchy kind like russet or golden potatoes.
- Yellow Onion diced and for its delicious oniony flavor.
- Chicken Stock using a good quality chicken stock really makes a difference, so dont skimp out on this one.
- Butter buttery flavor to go with the potatoes and the roast.
- Paprika for its slightly peppery taste.
- Dried Parsley to garnish.
Choosing Your Pork
Now, before you get cooking, let me give a few pointers about the pork youre going to want to buy. Your roast should be:
- Boneless
- 2-4 Pounds the bigger it is, the longer you need to cook it
- Whole Pork Tenderloin OR Pork Loin Roast this one is tied together with string and its the one I used
How to Cook a Pork Loin Roast
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare roast by cutting small 1 inch deep slits into the meat. Fill slits with julienned garlic pieces. Rub entire roast with olive oil, salt, pepper, thyme, and rosemary (if applicable). Place into a roasting pan (or large baking dish) and bake 1 hour.
- While roast is baking, melt butter and chicken stock together and finish preparing potatoes if you have not yet done so.
- After an hour of baking, remove the roast. Pour about 1/4 cup of warm butter liquid onto the roast and around the pan. Shingle potatoes around the roast to create two layers of potatoes. Sprinkle on a few diced onions and pour on more butter liquid. Repeat this process until all ingredients are layered around the pork roast. Sprinkle paprika and parsley over the whole thing.
- Return to oven and bake 45 minutes to an hour more. The dish is done once the potatoes are soft and the roast is cooked. Remove from oven and place roast onto a separate place to rest. Cover with foil and set aside.
- Keeping the potatoes in the roasting pan, stir to coat potatoes in the gravy. If it seems too runny, keep stirring. The starch from the potatoes will thicken the sauce. Taste potatoes and adjust seasonings accordingly.
- After 10 minutes, slice the pork loin roast thinly and serve with potatoes.
Pork Loin Roast Tips and Tricks
Meat Thermometer. Use a meat thermometer for best results! The USDA recommends cooking your pork to an internal temperature of 145 degrees. You can always remove the pork loin roast if its cooked and keep the potatoes cooking! Dry meat is no bueno.
Gravy. If your gravy for your potatoes is still too runny for your liking, mash a few pieces of the potatoes and stir. That should help thicken it up.
Pork Loin with String. If you are using a loin top roast with the string around it, DO NOT remove the string until after the meat has finished cooking!
More Divine Main Dishes!
- Amazing Brown Sugar Ham Glaze Recipe
- Simple Sunday Meatloaf Recipe
- Perfect Roast Turkey
- Amazing Baked Ham
- Turkey Meatloaf Recipe
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Garlic Pork Loin Roast Recipe with Potatoes
This amazing Garlic Pork Loin Roast Recipe is served with gravied potatoes. They cook alongside the pork roast making them the perfect side.
- 3 lb. pork roast (see guidelines above)
- 1 clove garlic (thinly julienned)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1/2 tablespoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon ground thyme
- 1/4 teaspoon rosemary (optional)
- 6 large starchy potatoes (peeled and sliced into 1/4 inch rounds)
- 1/2 yellow onion (diced small)
- 1 1/4 cups chicken stock (or water and chicken bouillon cubes)
- 1/2 cup butter (melted)
- salt and pepper (to taste)
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 tablespoon dried parsley
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Preheat oven to350 degrees. Prepare roast bycutting small 1 inch deep slits into the meat.Fill slits withjulienned garlic pieces.Rub entire roast witholive oil, salt, pepper, thyme, and rosemary(if applicable). Place into a roasting pan (or large baking dish) andbake 1 hour.
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While roast is baking,melt butter and chicken stock togetherand finishpreparing potatoesif you have not yet done so.
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After an hour of baking,remove the roast. Pour about1/4 cup of warm butter liquidonto the roast and around the pan. Shingle potatoes around the roast to createtwo layers of potatoes.Sprinkle on afew diced onionsandpour on more butter liquid. Repeat this process until all ingredients are layered around the pork roast.Sprinkle paprika and parsleyover the whole thing.
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Return to oven andbake 45 minutes to anhour more.The dish is done once the potatoes are soft and the roast is cooked. Remove from oven and place roast onto a separate place to rest. Cover with foil and set aside.
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Keeping the potatoes in the roasting pan,stir to coat potatoes in the gravy. If it seems too runny,keep stirring.The starch from the potatoes will thicken the sauce. Taste potatoes and adjust seasonings accordingly.
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After 10 minutes, slice the pork loin roastthinly and serve with potatoes.
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