Recipe: Sirloin roast pork with stuffed baked apples

Perfect Pork

Perfect Pork offers 500g sirloin roasts in special oven bags. If not available, purchase a boned sirloin or mini roast.

Ingredients:

500g 100% NZ Trim Pork sirloin roast or mini roast

1 tbsp olive oil

Salt and pepper to taste

4 small Granny Smith apples

3/4 cup fresh breadcrumbs

2 tbsp finely chopped sage leaves

1 shallot, diced

2 tbsp table spread

Method:

Preheat oven to 200C.

If using a traditional roast, brush it with oil then season with salt and pepper.

Core apples with an apple corer. Using tip of a sharp knife, cut through skin around the circumference of each apple. Combine breadcrumbs, sage, salt, pepper and shallot. Mix in 1 tablespoon of spread. Stuff apples with this mixture. Dot tops with remaining table spread.

Place in a roasting pan with pork. Cook roast for 35 minutes according to packet instructions. Cook traditional roast for 10 minutes at 200C. Reduce heat to 160C, and continue cooking for 35-40 minutes.

Cover and rest roast for 10 minutes before carving.

Remove apples once soft and cooked. Keep warm.

Great served with a kumara mash and steamed green beans. Serves 3-4.