Apples and Onions: a Side Dish for Pork

Aroostook's Note:

Take a pork roast out of the oven, turn out a bowl of stuffing and add a hot dish of apples and onions.

• Total Time: 25 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 1 quart

• 1/4 lb lean bacon
• 1 lb apple, sliced
• 1 lb onion, peeled and sliced
• salt and pepper
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar (use only if apples are tart and the onions too strong)

Directions:

1. Cut bacon in inch squares and fry out.
2. Remove bacon.
3. Reserve grease.
4. Clean the fry pan.
5. Add 1 tablespoon of bacon fat to hot fry pan and add onions.
6. Brown the onions until golden and translucent.
7. Add more fat if needed.
8. Add apples and cook until tender.
9. Taste, if mixture is a bit sharp, add brown sugar.
10. Pour apples/onions into a hot baking dish.
11. Top w/ crumbled bacon.
12. Cover& keep warm in oven until serving time.

Reviews

[Red Zinfandel]

I loved the combination of the apples and the onions -- but I deviated a bit and left out the bacon bits. Now I think it would've been so much better! I still fried in bacon fat, and served it with steak. It was a much healthier alternative to, say, mashed potatoes!

[Heatherbelle2]

This was a great accompaniment to a rolled pork loin roast. I used brown sugar as my apples were a bit tart, as suggested. This is a keeper, thank you:)

[NanaD]

Served this with roast pork, cole slaw and cornbread. So good!!!!!!!