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Pork Loin and Apple Sauce

This Pork Loin and Apple Sauce recipe is perfect for Sunday Lunch because it's delicious, impressive and needs so little effort. You can make it at Christmas time too - it's a really nice change from the omnipresent turkey!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Resting Time 4 hours
Total Time 2 hours
Servings: 8 people
Cuisine: British
Calories: 1234
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 2 kg Pork Loin boneless with rind
  • 1 Tbsp olive oil
  • 1 Tbsp sea salt
  • 2 sprigs rosemary
  • For the Apple Sauce:
  • 3 big cooking apples e.g. bramley
  • 60 ml water
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • good pinch of cinnamon

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 240°C.
  2. Score the skin then rub in the oil and salt. Tuck the rosemary under the stings on the underside of the pork.
  3. Roast in the oven for up to about 40 minutes until the skin starts to blister.
  4. Turn down the oven to about 170°C and let cook for an hour.
  5. Put the joint on a carving plate and cover loosely with foil for about 15 minutes while you make the apple sauce.
  6. Apple Sauce: Peel, core and slice the apples thickly.
  7. Put in a small saucepan covered with the water and bring to the boil stirring constantly.
  8. Simmer under the lid for 5 minutes then for another 5 uncovered.
  9. Turn off the heat then stir in the cinnamon & sugar.