PORK LOIN STUFFED WITH PRUNES AND ROASTED VEGETABLES
PORK LOIN STUFFED WITH PRUNES AND ROASTED VEGETABLES
PORK LOIN STUFFED WITH PRUNES AND ROASTED VEGETABLES

Ingredients
  • 5cm/2in thick piece pork loin
  • 4 prunes
  • stones removed and chopped
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 vine tomato
  • halved
  • 100g/3½oz sweet potato
  • peeled and sliced into discs
  • 100g/3½oz green beans
Directions
  • Preheat oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. Place three cocktail sticks into a bowl of water to soak for ten minutes.
  • Place the pork loin between two pieces of cling film. Flatten out the pork with a meat mallet or the end of a rolling pin
  • until 1cm/¼in thick.
  • Place the prunes along the centre of the meat
  • season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and roll up like a cigar. Secure the pork with the soaked cocktail sticks.
  • Heat the oil in a large ovenproof frying pan. Add the tomato halves
  • sweet potato and the stuffed pork.
  • Cook the pork on all sides until golden-brown all over
  • then transfer the pan with the pork and vegetables to the oven to roast for 8-10 minutes
  • or until the pork is completely cooked through. When the pork is cooked
  • remove from the pan and rest for five minutes in a warm place.
  • Meanwhile
  • boil the beans in a pot of boiling salted water for 3-4 minutes
  • until just cooked
  • then drain.
  • To serve
  • slice the pork and arrange the slices on a serving plate with the roasted vegetables and beans alongside.