Sunday Pork Roast is an easy to make comfort food that is hearty, filling, and can easily feed the whole family for Sunday dinner. This recipe includes instructions for a classic oven braise as well as cooking in a slow cooker or Instant Pot.
Sunday dinner means a lot of things to a lot of people. It can be the time you gather with friends and family, or the time you are relaxing for just a little longer before starting another work week. In either case, an easy and delicious dinner is the perfect way to enjoy Sunday evening—or any evening! This recipe is simple, affordable and delightfully delicious.
You will start this dinner by coating the roast in oil and then sprinkling the spices over it. This will cook for 30 minutes in a high heat oven to blast the roast with heat and seal in those perfect flavors. Then, you will reduce the heat and bake for another hour. At that point, you will add the vegetables and apple juice to the roast, which will cook the veggies, add flavor, and keep the roast sweet and juicy. Bake that for another hour to two hours until the pork and vegetables are tender.
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Do I roast it covered or uncovered?
The pork roast has so much fat to render, that we want it uncovered, otherwise it will steam and it won’t get that great roasted flavor.
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Can I use a pork loin with this recipe?
Not really. This recipe calls for a cut of pork that requires a longer time in the oven. That is good because it allows enough time for the vegetables to cook through. A loin roast cooks significantly faster, and will not give you enough time to cook your veggies thoroughly enough.
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Can I use other kinds of potatoes with this recipe?
Yes. Red and Yukon Gold potatoes go best with this recipe. Russet potatoes are a little too starchy and don’t work as well. We like the baby red potatoes, which are fun too, because they can remain whole. If you can’t find ones that are about the size of a golf ball or smaller, you can cut up larger ones.
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Why is the temperature so high to start?
The initial high temperature sears the outside of the roast and keeps the inside juicy.
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Do you have a gravy recipe that can go with this?
This recipe doesn’t make a specific gravy, but you can find a guide to making gravy here, which will show you how to make gravy to go with any meal, whether from scratch or from your roast’s drippings.
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OH EM GEE! This is the easiest, best pork roast! My go to is the crockpot for these, but, never again! The savory meat with the slightly sweet veggies is perfect. The crust on the outside, excellent! My husband gives this one an, “A+”. Thank you!
This was the tastiest roast I have ever made! I also added 1 gala apple cut into bite size pieces. I will definitely be making this again!!
Oh my lanta woman!!! Fantastic recipe!!! Honestly I was a skeptic of the apple juice…the store I eas at only had light apple juice so I jusr got that…and I started the process andy honey asked for me to bring him lunch…so an hr into this I added everything else because I didn’t have the apple juice…but put it all together and thought I hope this tastes good…so I didn’t put in the extra hr for the veggies to cook but oh my lanta what a recipe!! I normally do beef roast but the pork was cheaper this go round…and your recipe is absolutely outstanding!! I stopped eating to give you rave reviews for this one!!! You are now part of my recipe book!! Thank you so very much!!!
I will share your recipe for years and I’ll make sure to say I found it on stay at home chef.com…lol. sound bit over….but seriously I was skeptical but man it’s freakin amazing! Even my picky other half loves it!!!
I’ve always had problems with any kind or pork turning out dry. This is the best pork recipe I’ve found & it was delicious. I did have a slight problem with the gravy. I ended up using 3/4 cups of flour & it turned great. I will be using this recipe again
This was delicious! I am terrible with pork, always dry. Not this recipe. Moist and easy to make. Saved this recipe!
I baked a 7# pork butt in my gas grill in an oval magnilite , no lid, no apple juice . Done in 4 hrs. Great recipe, everyone raved about it. Thank you
I am roasting this 7# Butt on my gas grill outside in this Louisiana heat, in a oval magnilte at 300 degrees. Oiled and seasoned according to specs, no apple juice though. Been cooking 3 hours, will check in 4! Sure smells good and will let y’all no how it turned out. Go Tigers!
I’m a bad cook… this was amazing and easy!
This was absolutely delicious! I cooked it in a cast iron Dutch oven and covered it for the last hour and a half. The meat was tender and so tasty! The apple juice adds great flavor to it without adding sweetness, as you might expect. Will definitely be making again!
We skipped the Apple juice and added a table spoon of home made MOJO ( Lome garlic marinade). Delicious!!!
This was so good! Ended up using the crockpot because it was so hot today. I did the spice rub on the Boston butt and chose to sear each side in a cast iron skillet then I added the apple juice to the skillet to get all that spicy goodness and poured it over the roast and veggies – very good and I would make again. Oh, and I made another half of the seasoning mix and sprinkled around the veggies (minus the salt because I’m trying to reduce sodium).