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If you’re looking for something different to do with your roast potatoes for the whole family on a Sunday then a stuffed pork loin is a great alternative to traditional roasts. It’s a step up from pork chops and makes a change to a pork roast.

Cooking the boneless pork loin in the slow cooker saves so much time and lets you enjoy the day rather than slaving over the stove plus, this apricot pork tenderloin makes a great alternative to a more traditional apricot glazed pork loin. This is a wonderful pork loin roast and one one the whole family will love for dinner.

Slow Cooked Apricot & Pistachio Stuffed Pork Loin Recipe

You can fit a really good sized loin of pork in most crock pots or you could cut the loin in two and lay them side by side in the slow cooker dish. Amongst our other slow cooker recipes we have a prune stuffed pork loin recipe that you might also like to try.

How does this differ to oven cooking a apricot stuffed pork tenderloin?

Unlike oven cooking, this crock pot pork dish uses dried apricots rather than apricot preserves and we find that the slow cooker apricot and pistachio pork loin stays really moist during cooking, giving the perfect texture when served.

If you’re looking for more recipe inspiration here’s our Slow Cooker Lasagne, Slow Cooker ‘Lazy’ Cottage Pie and Slow Cooker Ragu Pasta Bake. You can see all our recipes to date here.

So here’s our Apricot Pork Slow Cooker recipe:

Ingredients

800 g pork tenderloin
a slice of bread
1 onion cut into quarters
2 garlic cloves crushed
1.5 inches fresh root ginger peeled and sliced
0.25 tsp ground allspice
30 g chopped pistachio nuts
grated rind of half an orange
80 g dried apricots chopped
4 streaky bacon rashers
10 shallots
2 tablespoons cornflour
250 ml red wine
250 ml chicken stock
1 tablespoon tomato puree

Instructions

Cut the loin of pork down the centre lengthways and flatten out.
Use a food processor to mix the bread, onion, garlic, ginger, allspice, nuts and rind until finely chopped. Spread this mixture along the pork and push the apricots on top. Fold the pork back over.
Wrap the bacon around the pork and tie with string.
Fry the pork and shallots until the pork is golden all over and put in the slow cooker pot. Make a paste from the cornflour and water and ass to the slow cooker pot with the wine, stock and tomato puree.
Cook on high for 4 hours.

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