The Best Pork Loin Roast Recipe

This Pork Loin recipe is simple to throw together and impressive enough to feed your guests. Whether you choose a crock pot OR your oven, this ‘no-stress’ recipe will give you the most incredible roast ready and on the table in no time! Inspired by our amazing Honey Garlic Butter Pork Chops, our pork loin recipe is another easy dinner recipe to rock your world.

PORK LOIN RECIPE

Skinless and boneless pork loin NEEDS a good sauce, being that it is a lean cut of meat. Cooking it in a deep flavoured Honey Garlic Butter Sauce is PERFECT and gives you the ideal sauce to serve it with! Apart from the tender pork meat, the sauce is truly memorable — a dinner that you will be thinking about long after leftovers have disappeared.

HOW LONG DO YOU COOK A PORK LOIN ROAST

This pork loin recipe needs three steps before giving you an incredible tasting pork:

SEASON: Seasoned in a delicious rub with paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, optional red chili powder and brown sugar for caramelization. Pat meat dry with paper towel first so that the seasoning sticks and absorbs better. SEAR: Where the DEEP flavour begins. COOK!

Slow cooking pork loin in a crock pot at a low temperature is perfect and isn’t going to dry out or ruin your pork. 2 pounds (1 kg): 3 ½ hours on low 3-5 pounds (1 ½ – 2 ½ kg): 4-5 hours on low 6 pounds (3kg): 6 hours on low Oven roast pork loin covered for the first half hour which results in steaming/braising the meat. Then roast uncovered to get some beautiful charred/caramelized edges thanks to the brown sugar in the rub and the honey in the sauce.

SAUCE

LEFTOVERS

Refrigerate with the sauce for up to 3 days, or freeze for 3 months. The sauce soaks through the pork while stored and tastes even better the next day! Honey, unsalted butter, low sodium soy sauce, rice wine vinegar (or cider vinegar), and a good kick of garlic is all you need. I use low sodium to control the end result. This recipe makes SO MUCH SAUCE to drizzle all over rice, noodles, veggies and potatoes.

WHAT INTERNAL TEMPERATURE SHOULD PORK LOIN BE COOKED?

HOW TO MAKE PORK LOIN AHEAD OF TIME

Pork and sauce can be prepared up to 1 day ahead:

Pour sauce over seared/browned pork (store in your slow cooker bowl, baking pan or a large, shallow dish). Cover and refrigerate for up to 12 hours. If preparing more than 12 hours ahead, keep the sauce in separate dish. Slow cook or roast as per recipe.