Spiced Orange Pork Roast
Need If you have ground cinnamon, baby-cut carrots, pepper, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the ground nutmeg you could follow this main course with the Blueberry Nutmeg Cake as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 20 minutes.
Instructions
Sprinkle pork with salt and pepper. Spray 10-inch skillet with cooking spray. Cook pork in skillet over medium-high heat until brown on all sides. Grate peel from orange; squeeze juice from orange. Reserve orange peel and juice.
Place pork in 3 1/2- to 4-quart slow cooker.
Place carrots and apricots on pork.
Mix broth, cinnamon, nutmeg and reserved orange peel and juice; pour over pork.
Cover and cook on low heat setting 9 to 11 hours or until pork is tender.
Remove pork, carrots and apricots from cooker; cover to keep warm. Skim fat from surface of juices in cooker; pour juices into 1-quart saucepan.
Mix cornstarch and water until smooth; stir in honey. Stir honey mixture into juices in saucepan. Cook over medium-low heat about 15 minutes, stirring constantly, until mixture is smooth and bubbly.
Serve pork with carrots, apricots and sauce.