Pepper-Crusted Pork Loin

Name: Pepper-Crusted Pork Loin
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons, light brown sugar; 2 tablespoons, coarsely ground black pepper; 2 tablespoons, minced fresh rosemary; 1 1/2 teaspoons, salt; 3 pound, boneless pork loin roast, center-cut

Main Courses
Pork

Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2007

A spicy, savory crust of crushed peppercorns is the perfect adornment for a relatively bland pork loin, but balancing the two elements isn't as easy as it might seem. Cutting the pepper rub with brown sugar, fresh rosemary, and salt helped to deeply season the meat and temper the pepper burn.

SERVES 6

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 1 hour marinating and 20 minutes resting

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