Hickory Smoked Maple Glazed Bacon Wrapped Loin Recipes

HICKORY SMOKED MAPLE-GLAZED BACON-WRAPPED LOIN

Steps:

• 1. BRINE Take all of your brine ingredients and bring to a boil on the stove, stirring to mix well. Turn off heat and let cool. When completely cooled pour into a plastic bowl with lid and submerge tenderloin. Let these tenderloins soak overnight.
• 2. BACON PREP Put maple syrup in a small bowl, add about 2 tsp or more of cracked pepper. Mix together well. Separate your strips of bacon and set aside.
• 3. PORK LOIN Remove loin from brine - DO NOT throw out the brine if you are cooking in the smoker; set aside. Pat loin dry with paper towel Season loin with garlic powder, onion powder, and cracked pepper. ***Most smaller loins come with 2 loins in a package - if you have 2 loins put them together as one before wrapping with bacon, placing tapered end of one loin on thicker end of second loin. Skip folding tapered end step.***
• 4. WRAPPING THE LOIN WITH BACON **Before you begin to wrap the loin with bacon, know that you need to dip each piece of bacon in the maple syrup before wrapping around loin.** Take the tapered end of the pork loin and fold it over, hold it together while, with your free hand, take a piece of bacon, dip it in maple syrup and tightly wrap bacon around loin slightly stretching bacon as you wrap. Overlap your bacon and wrap tightly so you have no loose ends or sagging bacon pieces - this ensures you won't have to use toothpicks to keep the bacon in place. Continue wrapping the entire loin. At the end of the last piece of bacon, tuck the end under a piece of bacon that has been tightly wrapped. If you have any leftover maple syrup, drizzle over loin. Sprinkle bacon wrapped loins with a little more pepper.
• 5. COOKING: SMOKER The brine that you set aside... in your smoker, if you have a drip/steam pan, instead of using water fill it 1-inch from the top with the brine. If your smoker doesn't have a steam/dip pan, you can use a foil pan and place it on a bottom rack. Place the loins in the smoker and smoke at 200 - 220 degrees until the meat reaches 150 degrees (for safety - I cook to 145), remove, wrap in foil and let rest for at least 10 minutes before cutting and serving.
• 6. COOKING: BBQ GRILL Grill using indirect heat method, gently moving tenderloin around to evenly brown. Cook to internal temp of 150, remove from grill and let rest for 10 minutes before slicing.
• 7. COOKING: OVEN Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Wrap loin with bacon, without dipping in maple syrup. In a roasting pan with roasting rack, place loin on rack. Roast until you reach an internal temp of 140 (about 1hr 15 min). Baste/drizzle with maple syrup, return to oven and cook until internal temp reaches 150 (about 10 more minutes). Remove from oven, let rest 10 minutes before slicing.

BACON WRAPPED MAPLE GLAZED PORK LOIN RECIPE - (4.3/5)

Steps:

• Mix brown sugar, spicy brown mustard, soy sauce, worcestershire, and maple syrup. Remove the layer of fat on top of the pork with a sharp knife or most of it. Sprinkle it with salt, pepper and garlic salt. Pour the brown sugar glaze over the top. Wrap the pork with bacon slices covering it all. Drizzle the top with the maple syrup. Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour at 375 degrees. Remove foil and with a spoon re glaze the top with the drippings in the pan. Recover and cook for 30 more minutes. Uncover and re glaze again with the pan juices, you can drizzle with more syrup if you like now also. Cook uncovered until bacon is brown and crispy about 20 more minutes. Let it rest for about 5 to 10 minutes before slicing. This will be so tender and will slice in nice thin slices. You can put the pan juices over it after slicing or leave as it is. Make sure each portion has some of the sweet, crispy bacon with it...that's the best part to me!

BACON WRAPPED MAPLE-BOURBON PORK TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• Combine apple cider, bourbon and maple syrup.
• Rub meat with salt and pepper.
• Marinade in cider mixture from one hour to overnight.
• put loin in a roasting pan. in the top, cut five slits. insert a garlic clove into each slit.
• wrap with bacon.
• cook at 350 for 2 hours.