South Pacific Pork Roast Recipes

SOUTH PACIFIC PORK ROAST

Steps:

• Place pork shoulder roast in a clear plastic bag; set in a deep bowl.
• Thoroughly blend together the soy sauce, dry sherry, minced garlic, dry mustard, ginger and thyme.
• Pour marinade over meat in bag; close.
• Place the roast in the refrigerator and marinate for 2 or 3 hours or overnight.
• Transfer the pork roast and marinade to a crockpot.
• Cover and cook on HIGH for 3 1/2 to 4 hours.

SOUTH PACIFIC PORK ROAST (CROCK POT)

Steps:

• Season roast with salt and pepper and rub with minced garlic.
• Pan sear (on top of stove) roast about 3 minutes on each side.
• Place onion in bottom of crock-pot.
• Place roast on top of onion.
• Top roast with remaining ingredients, except Pineapple, cornstarch, and water.
• Mix water and cornstarch and pour onto top of all ingredients.
• Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.
• Add the can of pineapple and cook for another hour, or you can do like me and be lazy and throw the pineapple in with the other ingredients and cook it the whole time!

PORK ROAST THE OLD-FASHION WAY (CAST IRON DUTCH OVEN)

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350°F.
• Melt lard in cast iron dutch oven, or very heavy bottomed pot with lid, over medium high heat.
• Salt and pepper all sides of pork roast.
• When lard just begins to give off smell of being hot, place roast in pot.
• DO NOT move it for a minute or so, then rotate it to brown all sides.
• Lay garlic cloves and onion slices around the roast and stir to brown them a bit.
• Mix Kitchen Bouquet into the 2 cups of water.
• Pour in the water mixture.
• Bring to a boil.
• Cover tightly and place in lower portion of the oven.
• Roast 1 hour for boneless roast; 1-3/4 hours for bone-in roast.
• Half-way through roasting time turn the roast over.
• Remove roast from pan and cover to keep hot.
• Mix 2 Tablespoons cornstarch into 1/2 cup water.
• Using a whisk, stir the cornstarch mixture into the pot drippings, breaking up the garlic cloves as you mix.
• Bring to a boil, taste and season if needed with salt and/or pepper.
• NOTE: Pork roast made this way is ALWAYS tender.
• It makes wonderful hot pork sandwiches!
• The gravy is out of this world!

PACIFIC PORK ROAST WITH PINEAPPLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325.
• Place roast fat side up on cutting board. Slice into 1 inch thick slices, making sure you don't go all the way through.
• Drain pineapple, reserving juice.
• Combine 3/4 cup of pineapple, 1 can of soup, stuffing mix, green pepper, and butter. Mix well.
• Spoon stuffing between slices of pork. Tie roast tight with cooking twine. (Not absolutely necessary to tie.).
• Place roast on rack in shallow pan, fat side up. Cover with foil and bake at 325º for 1-1/2 hours.
• Uncover and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours more until meat is cooked has reached an internal temperature of 160.
• Meanwhile, combine remaining can of soup, 1/4 cup of reserved pineapple juice, 2 T pan drippings and ginger. Heat through and serve with pork.