Garlic Pork Loin Roast Recipe with Potatoes (2024)

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November 5, 2019

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This amazing Garlic Pork Loin Roast Recipe is served with gravied potatoes. They cook alongside the pork roast making them the perfect side.

Here’s a wonderful and easy meal to whip up when you have a little time on your hands, Garlic Pork Loin Roast Recipe with Potatoes. It falls more under the Sunday night dinner category, however, I made this midweek and it was great! This pork roast dish is very similar to the one I grew up eating with a few tweaks. Plus the potatoes cook right along with the pork so you don’t need to worry about a side dish!

Pork Loin Roast Recipe

The list of ingredients for this recipe is a little intimidating but don’t worry, this Pork Loin Roast Recipe is straight forward. So gather up these ingredients to start your delicious main dish!

Choosing Your Pork

Now, before you get cooking, let me give a few pointers about the pork you’re going to want to buy. Your roast should be:

Boneless
2-4 Pounds – the bigger it is, the longer you need to cook it
Whole Pork Tenderloin OR Pork Loin Roast – this one is tied together with string and its the one I used

How to Cook a Pork Loin Roast

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare roast by cutting small 1 inch deep slits into the meat. Fill slits with julienned garlic pieces. Rub entire roast with olive oil, salt, pepper, thyme, and rosemary (if applicable). Place into a roasting pan (or large baking dish) and bake 1 hour.
While roast is baking, melt butter and chicken stock together and finish preparing potatoes if you have not yet done so.
After an hour of baking, remove the roast. Pour about 1/4 cup of warm butter liquid onto the roast and around the pan. Shingle potatoes around the roast to create two layers of potatoes. Sprinkle on a few diced onions and pour on more butter liquid. Repeat this process until all ingredients are layered around the pork roast. Sprinkle paprika and parsley over the whole thing.
Return to oven and bake 45 minutes to an hour more. The dish is done once the potatoes are soft and the roast is cooked. Remove from oven and place roast onto a separate place to rest. Cover with foil and set aside.
Keeping the potatoes in the roasting pan, stir to coat potatoes in the gravy. If it seems too runny, keep stirring. The starch from the potatoes will thicken the sauce. Taste potatoes and adjust seasonings accordingly.
After 10 minutes, slice the pork loin roast thinly and serve with potatoes.

Pork Loin Roast Tips and Tricks

Meat Thermometer. Use a meat thermometer for best results! The USDA recommends cooking your pork to an internal temperature of 145 degrees. You can always remove the pork loin roast if its cooked and keep the potatoes cooking! Dry meat is no bueno.

Gravy. If your gravy for your potatoes is still too runny for your liking, mash a few pieces of the potatoes and stir. That should help thicken it up.

Pork Loin with String. If you are using a loin top roast with the string around it, DO NOT remove the string until after the meat has finished cooking!

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Garlic Pork Loin Roast Recipe with Potatoes

This amazing Garlic Pork Loin Roast Recipe is served with gravied potatoes. They cook alongside the pork roast making them the perfect side.

servings 6 servings

Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 2 hours hrs

Total Time 2 hours hrs 25 minutes mins

Ingredients

▢ 3 lb. pork roast see guidelines above
▢ 1 clove garlic thinly julienned
▢ 1 tablespoon olive oil
▢ 1 tablespoon salt
▢ 1/2 tablespoon pepper
▢ 1/2 teaspoon ground thyme
▢ 1/4 teaspoon rosemary optional
▢ 6 large starchy potatoes peeled and sliced into 1/4 inch rounds
▢ 1/2 yellow onion diced small
▢ 1 1/4 cups chicken stock or water and chicken bouillon cubes
▢ 1/2 cup butter melted
▢ salt and pepper to taste
▢ 1 tablespoon paprika
▢ 1 tablespoon dried parsley

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Preheat oven to350 degrees. Prepare roast bycutting small 1 inch deep slits into the meat.Fill slits withjulienned garlic pieces.Rub entire roast witholive oil, salt, pepper, thyme, and rosemary(if applicable). Place into a roasting pan (or large baking dish) andbake 1 hour.
While roast is baking,melt butter and chicken stock togetherand finishpreparing potatoesif you have not yet done so.
After an hour of baking,remove the roast. Pour about1/4 cup of warm butter liquidonto the roast and around the pan. Shingle potatoes around the roast to createtwo layers of potatoes.Sprinkle on afew diced onionsandpour on more butter liquid. Repeat this process until all ingredients are layered around the pork roast.Sprinkle paprika and parsleyover the whole thing.
Return to oven andbake 45 minutes to anhour more.The dish is done once the potatoes are soft and the roast is cooked. Remove from oven and place roast onto a separate place to rest. Cover with foil and set aside.
Keeping the potatoes in the roasting pan,stir to coat potatoes in the gravy. If it seems too runny,keep stirring.The starch from the potatoes will thicken the sauce. Taste potatoes and adjust seasonings accordingly.
After 10 minutes, slice the pork loin roastthinly and serve with potatoes.

Nutrition

Course: Main Course, Side Dish

Cuisine: American

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