Best Slow Cooker Pork Loin Roast Honey Butter Sauce Recipes

PORK LOIN ROAST RECIPE

Steps:

• Pat dry pork with paper towel. Combine 1 tablespoon of oil with rub ingredients. Season pork, rubbing the mixture into the meat.
• Heat remaining oil (about 2 teaspoons) in a large pan or skillet over medium heat. Sear pork all over until golden browned, rotating the pork around to avoid spices burning.
• Melt butter in the same pan the pork was in while scraping up any leftover bits in the pan. Add garlic and sauté for 1 minute until fragrant. Stir in remaining sauce ingredients; bring to a rapid simmer for 1 minute.
• Place seared pork in a 6-qt (litre) slow cooker. Pour sauce over pork; cover with lid and cook on LOW heat setting for 4 - 5 hours.
• Transfer pork onto serving dish and tent loosely with foil. Let rest for 10-15 minutes.
• While pork is resting: pour juices from the slow cooker bowl into a pot large enough to fit the liquid. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat.
• Mix 2 tablespoons of the juices with 4 teaspoons of cornstarch (cornflour). Whisk cornstach slurry into sauce and let simmer for a good 5 minutes, or until thickend into a syrup-like consistency. (For a thicker sauce, repeat this step with 1 teaspoon cornstarch mixed with 2 teaspoons water. Add into sauce and cook until thickened (please note: sauce will thicken as it cools). Continue this step until reaching your desired consistency.)
• Slice pork and serve drizzled with Honey Garlic Butter Sauce.
• Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).
• Place seared/browned seasoned pork in a roasting pan.
• Prepare sauce, as above. Reserve 1/2 cup sauce for basting. Pour remaining sauce over pork.
• Add in 1/2 cup stock and 1/2 cup water around the pork.
• Cover and roast for 20 minutes. Baste with half of the reserved sauce and continue roasting, uncovered, for a further 15 minutes. Baste again and roast for a further 10-15 minutes, until a meat thermometer registers 145°F (62.5°C) in the thickest part(If pan dries out while cooking (it shouldn't), add a little more water.)
• Transfer pork onto serving plate and baste with pan juices. Tent loosely with foil and let rest for 10-15 minutes..
• Scrape up any browned bits leftover in the pan, mixing them through the pan juices and pour juices into a pot. Whisk in cornstarch/stock and water mixture and bring to a simmer. Slowly add in 1/4 cup water, whisk, then add a nother 1/4 cup if needed, until reaching a honey-like consistency. (Please note: sauce will thicken as it cools).
• Slice pork and drizzle with Honey Garlic Butter Sauce.

SLOW COOKER HONEY-GARLIC PORK LOIN ROAST

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Season pork with salt and pepper. Place pork in the hot skillet and sear until brown on all sides, about 3 to 4 minutes per side. Transfer pork to a 6-quart slow cooker.
• Add garlic cloves to the skillet. Cook, stirring often, over medium-high heat until brown, about 5 minutes. Add onion and cook until softened, about 3 minutes. Sprinkle flour over garlic and onion and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes.
• Pour chicken broth into the pan and bring to a boil while scraping the browned bits of food off the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Stir in lemon juice, Italian seasoning, salt, and pepper, and bring to a boil. Pour broth mixture and honey over the pork in the slow cooker.
• Close the lid and cook on High for 3 hours or on Low for 6 hours, until pork is fork-tender. Transfer pork to a platter and let rest for 5 minutes. Pour cooking liquid into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until thick, 2 to 3 minutes. Lightly mash the garlic cloves. Slice the pork, and serve with the mashed garlic cloves and sauce.

SLOW COOKER PORK LOIN ROAST WITH BROWN SUGAR AND SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Mix pork rub seasoning and Chinese five-spice powder together in a small bowl. Rub all over pork roast.
• Place sweet potatoes into the bottom of a slow cooker; add brown sugar and butter. Place roast on top and season with salt and pepper.
• Cook on Low until roast is fork-tender, 6 to 7 hours. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 145 degrees F (63 degrees C).

SLOW COOKER PORK ROAST WITH HONEY BUTTER SAUCE

Steps:

• Trim pork roast of excess fat and pat dry with paper towels.
• Make a spice rub by mixing smoked paprika, thyme, garlic powder, onion powder, 2 teaspoons salt, and 1/2 teaspoons black pepper in a small bowl.
• Rub the pork roast with 1/2 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil.
• Sprinkle the spice rub over the pork roast, patting to adhere the spice rub all over.
• Heat 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
• Add the pork roast to the skillet and sear on all sides until golden brown, taking care not to burn the spices.
• Place the pork roast in the slow cooker.
• Wipe out the skillet with a paper towel.
• Add the butter to the skillet and melt over medium heat.
• Add the minced garlic to the skillet and cook for about 1 minute.
• To the skillet, add the honey, cider vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper, mixing well.
• Simmer the honey butter sauce for about 30 seconds.
• Pour the honey butter sauce over the pork roast in the crock pot, saving the skillet for later use.
• Cover the crock pot and cook on low for 4 to 5 hours.
• When done, remove the pork roast to a serving platter and cover with foil to rest.
• Pour the juices from the crock pot back into the large skillet, heating over medium high heat.
• Mix the cornstarch and water to make a slurry, and add it slowly to the juices in the skillet.
• Simmer for about 5 minutes or until the sauce reduces to a syrupy consistency.
• Slice the pork roast and serve with the honey butter sauce.