Dutch Oven Garlic Boneless Pork Loin Roast

Perfectly cooked boneless pork loin roast flavored with garlic and prepared with potatoes in the Dutch oven

Make your own boneless pork loin roast easily (It's exceptionally easy!) and surprise your family and friends.

You will get to nurture your pork roast to get a lovely crispy crust with juicy, flavorful meat slices.

You might also like a homemade German pork loin roast with Sauerkraut or this Italian Porketta.

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• 📕 What is a pork loin roast?
• 🔪 How to cook it?
• 📖 Recipe
• 💭 FAQs
• 🍴 Serving
• 💡 Leftover uses
• 💬 Comments

📕 What is a pork loin roast?

A pork loin roast is a whole pork loin roasted in the oven.

The pork loin is a pork cut between the shoulder and the behind legs of the animal.

Pork Loin meat is tender and the leanest and is situated next to the tenderloin (filet).

This meat cut has a thin fat cap which will help you to cook a perfect juicy pork loin roast.

🔪 How to cook it?

This is how to roast a pork loin in the oven in 3 straightforward stages and steps in the Dutch oven.

The full printable recipe with ingredient and instruction details including video is situated at the bottom of this post.

Step 1

Prep your raw pork loin by cutting a grid pattern into the fat cap.

Poke into the meat with a knife and stuff with garlic cloves. Do that all over the pork loin.

Season the meat with pork roast seasoning, place into the dutch oven with sliced onions, caraway seeds and fats.

Step 2

Brown the meat on all sides over your kitchen stove first.

Add bouillon cube with water or broth to your roast, this will be your sauce later.

Turn roast fat cap up and close the Dutch oven with a lid.

Step 3

Roast your boneless pork loin for 30 minutes. [first roasting round]

Take out your roast from the oven and pour more water and arrange your potatoes around the roast.

Roast another 30 minutes. [second roasting round]

Prepare your slurry with all-purpose flour and water and pour that to your roast. This will help the sauce to thicken.

Cook your roast 10 more minutes until it's cooked through and done.

Slice your roast to serve.

📖 Recipe

💭 FAQs

What seasoning do you use for your pork loin roast?

I love to mix my seasoning for pork loin roast because I get to choose the flavor profile.

Technically, it's a pork loin roast rub.

This is the only seasoning that you need in this recipe.

You can also use store bought pork roast seasoning or simple pork seasoning.

What temperature is a pork loin roast done?

The pork loin is cooked in the oven at 460° Fahrenheit/ 240 Celsius, and after the potatoes are added at 400° Fahrenheit/ 200 Celsius.

The new USDA guidelines recommend an internal temperature of 145 to 160 degrees Fahrenheit / 60 degrees Celsius, and that's when your roast is done.

You can check the inner temperature with a meat thermometer.

How long to cook pork loin roast in the dutch oven?

You will take about 15 minutes to prep your pork meat.

The browning of the meat over the stove in the dutch oven takes about 5 minutes.

The pork loin roast with potatoes will cook for altogether 70 minutes in the same dutch oven at a fixed oven temperature.

The TOTAL pork roast cooking time with cooking on the stove and in the oven is 75 minutes, 1 hour 15 minutes.

Why do you cook your roast first on the stove?

Because the initial all-around browning of the roast over the stove heat will help to release flavors and will give your roast a lovely color.

Why do you roast your pork loin in stages?

The roast is cooked in 3 stages in the oven.

Because the roast needs to be cooked on higher heat at first and potatoes are added afterward and the slurry to thicken at the end.

To break it down:

The first is with the Dutch oven lid on high heat for 30 minutes.

The second round includes the potatoes and some more water and is on a lower heat setting for 30 minutes.

The third includes the slurry to thicken the sauce during the last 10 minutes of roasting duration.

🍴 Serving

The pork roast comes with potatoes, but you can serve it with other side dishes as well.

In that case, you can even switch the potatoes out and cook the roast with root vegetables such as carrots and turnips, or you add Sauerkraut instead of the potatoes.

You can always serve other separately cooked side dishes with this boneless pork loin roast recipe.

For example, roasted green beans, brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes, potato dumplings, bread dumplings, braised red cabbage, german coleslaw, and other salad side dishes.

💡 Leftover uses

Occasionally, we have a few slices of pork loin roast leftover.

The pork meat will taste even better in another dish.

Here are some leftover pork loin roast recipes.

• Make a sandwich with the meat
• Add it to your fried rice cut into pieces
• Add a slice to your lunch salad
• Serve it up with mashed potatoes the next day