Roast Pork with Gingerbread Sauce and Celery Root with Bacon

Name: Roast Pork with Gingerbread Sauce and Celery Root with Bacon
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 kilograms celery root; 8 servings Gingerbread Sauce; 8 servings Kosher salt and fresh-ground pepper; 8 servings Gingerbread Wedges, optional; 1 slice Thin orange; 2 kilograms center-cut pork loin rib roast , bones cracked and fat trimmed to 1/8 inch thick; 227 grams thick-sliced bacon

Roast Pork with Gingerbread Sauce and Celery Root with Bacon might be just the main course you are searching for. This recipe serves 8. Watching your figure? This gluten free, dairy free, and fodmap friendly recipe has 716 calories, 60g of protein, and 40g of fat per serving. It is perfect for Christmas. A mixture of gingerbread wedges, orange, kosher salt and fresh-ground pepper, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. To use up the lime wedges you could follow this main course with the Frozen Key Lime Pie as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 35

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Cut the bacon crosswise into 1/4-inch-wide strips. In a 10- to 12-inch frying pan over medium-high heat, stir bacon until lightly browned and slightly crisp, 6 to 8 minutes. With a slotted spoon, transfer to paper towels to drain. Discard all but 2 tablespoons fat in pan.

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Bacon

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Paper Towels

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Peel celery root and cut into about 1/2-inch cubes (see notes). In a 12- by 17-inch roasting pan, mix celery root and the 2 tablespoons reserved bacon fat.

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Celeriac

Bacon Drippings

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Bake for 30 minutes.

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Meanwhile, rinse pork and pat dry.

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Pork

Sprinkle lightly all over with salt and pepper. Stir celery root, then set a rack above mixture (it can rest on pan rim). Set roast, fat side up, on rack.

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Salt And Pepper

Celeriac

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Bake in the 350 oven until a thermometer inserted in center of thickest part of roast reaches 155, 1 3/4 to 2 hours.

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Transfer roast to a platter or board and let rest in a warm place, 10 to 15 minutes. Meanwhile, stir bacon into celery root and return to oven; bake until celery root is lightly browned and tender when pierced, 8 to 15 minutes longer.

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Celeriac

Bacon

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Oven

Add salt and pepper to the mixture to taste. Wrap gingerbread rounds in foil and warm in oven, 8 to 10 minutes, then break into wedges.

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Salt And Pepper

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