Proscuitto Wrapped Pork Loin
Author: The Adventures of Bob & Shan
Recipe type: Dinner
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Serves: 8
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- FILLING
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- 1 cup brown mushrooms
- ¾ cup chopped apples
- 1 pound kale
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1 cup minced onion
- 1 tbsp finely minced garlic
- 1½ tsp dried thyme
- 1½ tsp dried rosemary
- 2 tbsp bourbon
- ½ tsp ground black pepper
- 1 pound ground pork
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- PORK
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- 1 trimmed 2.5-3 lb pork loin
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- ½ ground black pepper
- 2 ounces prosciutto
- 5 sprigs rosemary
- 4 medium apples
- 3 tbsp unsalted butter
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup dry hard cider (we used Strongbow)
- Blanch kale in boiling salted water, about 1 minute.
- Drain kale, and place on baking sheet in the fridge until cooled.
- In a large skillet on medium heat, add butter.
- Once heated, add onion, sauteeing until lightly golden 8-10 minutes.
- Add mushrooms & apples, cooking about 5 more minutes.
- Add garlic, thyme, and rosemary, cooking 1 more minute.
- Add bourbon, cooking until liquid has absorbed, about 1 minute.
- Season with 2 teaspoons of salt and ½ teaspoon of pepper.
- Empty mixture into a bowl, allowing to cool completely.
- Once cooled, add ground pork, mixing until combined.
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- PORK
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- Butterfly your pork loin, so that it is about ½" thick.
- Once butterflied, cover with plastic wrap, and pound to an even thickness with a meat mallet.
- Remove plastic wrap, and season pork with 1 teaspoon salt and ½ teaspoon pepper.
- Place kale leaves, overlapping, on rolled out loin.
- Evenly spread cooled ground pork, mushroom, and apple mixture on top of kale.
- Roll pork tightly into a cylinder.
- Wrap roast with prosciutto, then tie roast with kitchen twine, about 1" inch apart down the whole roast.
- Tuck rosemary under kitchen twine.
- Preheat oven to 400F.
- In a large skilet on medium-high heat, melt 1 tablespoon of butter.
- Once heated, add pork, searing til browned on each side, about 5 minutes.
- Place halved apples in a roasting pan, then place roast on top of apples.
- Add cider and ½ cup water to your skillet, scraping off browned bits, then pour liquid into your roasting pan.
- Roast pork until it registers an internal temperature of 140F, about 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes.
- Let roast rest 20 minutes before serving.
- Serve roasted apples whole, with the pork, or blend them into an apple sauce for the pork.
Recipe by The Adventures of Bob & Shan at https://theadventuresofbobandshan.com/proscuitto-wrapped-pork-loin/
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