Roasting question: How long should I cook bone-in pork center cut. There will be TWO 5-6 lbs each.

Luisa, I have this recipe for REC: Tuscan-Style Pork Roast which can serve as...

an example for you. The recipe says it takes about 2 hours for a 4 1/2 to 5 pound roast, but one of the reviewers wrote that it took another 45 minutes to reach 155F. The Food Safety & Inspection site says you should allow 20 - 30 minutes per pound, for a 2 to 5 pound pork loin roast, bone-in or boneless. Good luck with your roasts!

Tuscan-Style Pork Roast (Arista)
Gourmet - January 2001

Active time: 20 min Start to finish: 3 hr

Servings: Makes 6 servings.

garlic cloves
1/4 cup fresh rosemary
2 teaspoons fine sea salt
1 (4 1/2- to 5-lb) rib section center-cut pork loin, boned, meat reassembled with bones, and tied by butcher

Mince together garlic and rosemary. Stir together with sea salt in a small bowl and season with pepper. Rub 1 tablespoon garlic mixture all over pork. Beginning at 1 end of loin, make a 3/4-inch slit with a long thin knife through center of loin to other end. Stuff slit with remaining garlic mixture, pushing it through with handle of a long wooden spoon. Marinate at room temperature 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Put loin, fat side up, on a rack in a roasting pan and roast in middle of oven until an instant-read thermometer inserted diagonally at least 2 inches into meat registers 155°F, about 2 hours. Let pork stand, loosely covered, 20 minutes.

Discard string. Separate loin from bones and cut meat crosswise into 3/4-inch-thick slices. If desired, serve bones cut into ribs.

Cooks' note: Roast may be rubbed and stuffed with garlic mixture 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring to room temperature before roasting.

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/104553

 
sorry, didn't see this until later but I woulkd make pork roast again

We cooked them 3 hours to 180 internal - I set my husband to research the recommended time and I had a gut feeling this was too high(in my opinion, too done, but my dad likes his meat well done...)We let the meat rest (which saved it from being dry) while I made the cranberry rosemary onion sauce which was easy to make at the last. I enriched it with the roasting fond. It was very tasty.

 
Sounds like you managed to satisy everyone! Your sauce sounds very good too...

Did you have a recipe for it or is it something you put together on the fly? (So many creative cooks on this site!) I'm planning to make a stuffed pork loin on the 1st (apple/cranberry). It's a new recipe for me so I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

 
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