Sunday, March 06, 2005

Maple-Glazed Pork Roast

Pork, the other white meat. Pork producers have bread a lean pork product that some processors of are enhancing by injecting it with a water/salt/sodium phosphate solution to season the meat and improve juiciness. I prefer to control the taste of pork so I get it from the local butcher shop or from the supermarket where I know I can get un-enhanced pork.

Inside America's Test Kitchen (Cook's Illustrated) has a Maple-Glazed Pork Roast that we recently tried. It is well worth the venture even though they state 'This dish is unapologetically sweet'. Yes, it does have a sweet crust which has little influence on the rest of the roast.

They also offer four variations of the same recipe. Three alternatives are additives such as grated orange zest, star anise pods and smoked hot paprika. The other is a substitute - rosemary for the spices.

Easy to do. Click the title to get the recipe.

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