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.

