Stuffed Pork Loin with Butternut Squash and Blue Cheese
- Cooking spray
- 2 slices bacon
- 2 cups diced butternut squash
- 1/2 cup diced onion
- 1/2 cup seasoned dry bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons crumbed blue cheese, divided
- 3 tablespoons freshly chopped sage leaves, divided
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 (4-pound) boneless pork loin
- 1 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth, divided
- 1/4 cup dry sherry
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Coat a roasting pan with cooking spray.
- Cook bacon in a large skillet over medium-high heat until crisp.
- Remove from pan, reserving fat in pan, and crumble into small pieces.
- To the same pan, add squash and onion and cook 3 minutes, until onion is soft.
- Remove from heat, add to a large bowl with the crumbled bacon, bread crumbs, 1/2 cup of the blue cheese, 2 tablespoons of the sage, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper.
- Mix well.
- Butterfly pork on a flat surface and spread stuffing evenly over meat.
- Roll up pork and tie with kitchen twine at 2-inch intervals.
- Season pork all over with salt and black pepper and transfer to prepared pan.
- Roast 15 minutes.
- Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees F and bake 45 more minutes, until an instant-read thermometer registers 160 degrees F for medium-well.
- Let pork rest 10 minutes before cutting crosswise into 1-inch thick slices.
- In a small saucepan, whisk together chicken broth, sherry and cornstarch.
- Set pan over medium heat and bring to a simmer.
- Add remaining 2 tablespoons blue cheese and tablespoon of sage and simmer 1 minute, until sauce thickens.
- Remove from heat and season, to taste, with salt and black pepper.
- Serve 1/2 of the pork with all of the sauce spooned over top.
- Reserve remaining pork for quesadillas.
cooking spray, bacon, butternut squash, onion, bread crumbs, blue cheese, sage, salt, pork loin, chicken broth, sherry, cornstarch
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/robin-miller/stuffed-pork-loin-with-butternut-squash-and-blue-cheese-recipe.html (may not work)