Slow Cooker Honey Apple Pork Loin Recipe 465

Steps:

• Cut slits on the top of the pork loin, I cut about an inch down. Plug in apple slices into the slits. Set aside. Add the onions and remaining apple slices down in the slow cooker. Lay over the slices of butter. Add the pork loin. Sprinkle the pork with the salt, pepper and cinnamon. Add the thyme. Drizzle over the honey. Cover and cook on LOW for 6 hours without opening the lid during the cooking time. When the cooking time is done. Remove the pork onto a platter and let rest for at least 5 minutes. Slice, serve and enjoy!

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Season pork with salt and pepper. Place pork in the hot skillet and sear until brown on all sides, about 3 to 4 minutes per side. Transfer pork to a 6-quart slow cooker.
• Add garlic cloves to the skillet. Cook, stirring often, over medium-high heat until brown, about 5 minutes. Add onion and cook until softened, about 3 minutes. Sprinkle flour over garlic and onion and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes.
• Pour chicken broth into the pan and bring to a boil while scraping the browned bits of food off the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Stir in lemon juice, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper, and bring to a boil. Pour broth mixture and honey over the pork in the slow cooker.
• Close the lid and cook on High for 3 hours or on Low for 6 hours, until pork is fork-tender. Transfer pork to a platter and let rest for 5 minutes. Pour cooking liquid into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until thick, 2 to 3 minutes. Lightly mash the garlic cloves. Slice the pork, and serve with the mashed garlic cloves and sauce.

Steps:

• Lay the apple slices (from two of the apples) in the bottom of the crockpot.
• Sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Cut slits in the pork loin (approx 1/2″-3/4″).
• Drizzle some honey into the slits.
• Then place apple slices into the slits.
• Place the pork loin into the crockpot.
• Drizzle the top with the remainder of the honey.
• Place the rest of the apples on top.
• Then sprinkle the whole thing with cinnamon.
• Cook on low for 7 hours.

Steps:

• Lightly crush the fennel, garlic and the leaves of 3 thyme sprigs together in a pestle and mortar. Add 1 tbsp oil and season well, then bash to a rough paste. Rub the mixture all over the pork, then cover and chill for at least 2 hrs or up to 24 hrs.
• Set the slow cooker to low. Tip the shallots into a heatproof bowl and pour a kettleful of boiling water. Leave to soak for 2 mins, then drain and rinse under cold water until cool enough to handle (this will make them easier to peel). Cut off the roots and remove the papery skins.
• Heat the remaining oil in a frying pan or flameproof casserole that's large enough to fit the pork joint. Brown the shallots for a few minutes over a medium heat, then tip into the slow cooker. Add the celeriac and apples, then season well and mix.
• Put the pork in the pan and brown really well on all sides, then transfer to the slow cooker fat-side up on top of the vegetable mixture. Pour the wine into the pan and bubble for 1 min. Add the stock, honey and mustard and bubble for 1 min more, then pour the mixture over the pork. Cover and cook on low for 5-6 hrs, turning the meat and stirring the veg halfway through cooking, if you can.
• Lift the pork out of the slow cooker, wrap and leave to rest for 10 mins before carving. Serve with the cooked vegetables and some greens, if you like.