Monday, June 12, 2006

Easy Food -- Porketta Roast

This is one of those fast-prep, cook slow meals that are easiest on me, and my family enjoys. I showed my friend L how to cook it, although that was a little hard on her PTSD, it came out great.

Ingredients:

About half a cup of dry rub. The last one I did had garlic powder, Italian herbs, ginger, nutmeg, and whatever other spice looked like a good match.

1 half pork loin, roughly 4-5 pounds. It looks like an arm. Really. You don't want a tenderloin, that's a much smaller cut of meat.

Preheat oven to 325.

unwrap, rinse, and pat dry the pork loin. Lay it in the roaster fat side down, and press the rub into the bottom and sides of the roast. Don't forget the ends -- the guys in the family adore the end cut. Flip the roast over and press the rest of the rub on the top, getting the top edge of the sides well coated as well.

If you want do to a side dish at the same time, peel and cut in quarters about 4" long some garnet yams or sweet potatoes. Rub the yams in some of the spices that have fallen off the roast -- just a bit, don't spend much time on it -- and toss them in the roasting pan with the pork loin.

Put the whole thing in the oven for about an hour and a half. If it's a slightly smaller roast, check it at an hour and 15 minutes. Roast till internal temperature is nearly 160. Take it out of the oven, transfer the roast to a platter. Let it sit for 15 minutes to finish cooking and redistribute the juices. If you're like me, stick a heat proof spoon in the roasting pan and let people serve themselves the yams; get someone to slice the pork roast. Or, if you have the spoons, slice it, put the yams in a serving dish, and present it prettily.

2 comments:

That's MIZZ Gypsy To You! said...

So.....can I get this recipe donated to the Marc Maron Show Cookbook that may or may not ever get off the ground? It sounds yummy.

Alia said...

Sure. I adapted from something off of allrecipes, and we might want to change the name -- how about "That Thing Looks Like an Arm!"?