Braised Loin of Pork with Mustard Onion Sauce

Total time: 1 hour 30 minutes
     I use a small loin roast, 1 1/2 lbs and it cooked to the correct temperature in just over an hour. The bay leaves, mustard and wine add a lovely, slightly pungent flavor to both the pork and the Onion Sauce.  This serves 4.

 Ingredients:

• 1 pork loin roast, 1 1/2 - 2 lbs, 750gr, 26.5oz, lean sirloin, trimmed, boneless
• 2 onions, 290gr, 10.3oz
• 4 bay (laurel) leaves
• 1/2 cup of white wine, 120gr, 4.2oz
• 1/2 cup chicken stock, 112gr, 4oz
• 1 Tbs Dijon-style mustard, 15gr, .43oz
• 1 tbs olive oil, 13.5gr, .48oz
• 1 tbs cornstarch (maizena, corn flour) dissolved in 1 tbs water, 8gr, .28oz

 Instructions:

• Slice onions, thickly. 
• Heat oil in a heavy pot or Dutch oven with tight-fitting lid.  Add onions and sauté until tender, about 7 minutes. 
• Move onions to the side and add pork.  Brown on one side 5 minutes, then turn and brown the other. 
• Stir the onions.  Add bay leaves, wine, stock and mustard, turn heat to low, cover and braise for 1 hour. 
• Take temperature, it should be 155 - 160F (70C). If not done, continue braising, checking temperature every 10 minutes. 
• Remove pork and keep warm. 
• Dissolve cornstarch in water. 
• Increase heat under sauce.  Add cornstarch and stir until thickened. 
• Slice pork, spoon onions around and serve.

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Nutrition Information               Recipe serves 4            Entire Recipe / per serving Calories:  1457 / 364.5 Total Carbohydrates:  39 / 10           Dietary Fiber: 6 / 1.5 Total Fat:  62 / 15.5          Saturated Fat: 18 / 4.5 Cholesterol:  480 / 120 Protein:  159 / 39.5 Calcium:  184 / 46 Sodium:   734 / 183.5

General Technical Details and Disclaimer:

Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.

I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it.  I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.

My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale
and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/