Glazed Pork Roast (Pieczony Schab)

Bayhill's Note:

Posted for the Zaar World Tour-Poland. From the "Best of International Cooking" cookbook. I haven't tried this recipe yet, but it sounds delicious.

• Total Time: 2 hrs 50 mins
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 2 hrs 20 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄8; teaspoon pepper
• 1 (3 lb) boneless pork loin roast
• 10 whole cloves

Applesauce

• 5 cooking apples , peeled and diced
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick , 3-inch piece
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 cup water

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Rub salt and pepper into pork; press cloves into pork at equal intervals. Place pork, fat-side up, on a rack in a roasting pan. Roast in center of oven 1-1/2 hours, turning occasionally.
3. Prepare applesauce while roast is in oven: In a medium saucepan, combine apples, sugar, cinnamon stick, lemon juice and water. Cook over medium heat 10 minutes. Remove cinnamon stick. Press mixture through a sieve or puree in a blender or food processor. Set aside to cool.
4. Remove roast from oven. Coat pork generously with applesauce; return to oven. Without turning again, roast 30 minutes longer. Applesauce will form a golden-brown glaze over pork. Turn off oven; leave roast in oven 10 minutes longer.
5. Carve pork into thick slices. Serve with additional applesauce.

Reviews

[Elmotoo]

This was very good! The cloves added an interesting flavor. I made sure to tell the kids to look out for them under the applesauce! I did cheat & doctored up a jar of applesauce which worked out really well. Made for the EE Holiday Challenge of ZWT4.