Butternut and Blue Stuffed Pork Loin

BostonEggSox

I followed the recipe on foodnetwork.com making only minor changes. It went on indirect at 270ish dome until internal meat temp hit 148. Oh yeah, mixed in a bunch of Apple wood chips for smoke.

The gravy was awesome. I did not get pics of the gravy. It was simple to make. Simmer a cup of low salt chicken broth, 1/4 cup of cooking sherry along with 1 TBS of chopped fresh sage. Lower heat and mix in a TBS of cornstarch and a TBS of blue cheese chunks and bits. More of both if you want it thicker.

If you like blue cheese, you'll like this.

On to the stuffing. Pan'up 3 slices of bacon, crumble and leave the grease in the pan.


Throw the diced butternut squash (3 cups) in the pan until it starts to soften. If you don't do this for a few minutes prior to the onions the squash will not get squashy enough.


Now add the onions (1 cup) and brown.....I added 3 TBS of chopped sage at the end of the browning.


Add the blue cheese and bread crumbs to the the bowl of bacon bits and mix it up. Then mix in the squash n onions and salt/pepper to taste. DO NOT ADD THE MEASURING CUPS to the bowl


Expertly cut up, roll out and pound the pork loin. The expert at my house was not around so I did it


Spread the stuffing.


Tie her up....the loin that is :woohoo: I dusted liberally with salt and pepper.


On the Egg it goes...I tried the bacon trick that I've seen here on the forum.


Pulled off at 148 meat temp....rested for 20 minutes....sliced.....and covered in the gravy.

Broc

Oh, yeah! That's how to do it!

~ Smells Yumms! :ermm:

~ B

:S

AzScott

MMMmm...

The bacon does it! I'm going to have to try that some time.

BobS

That looked so good, I had to go look for the recipe and here is a link for anyone interested.

Butternut and Blue Stuffed Pork Loin

BostonEggSox

BobS thanks for mentioning the link. I forgot to do it. However, I did not see it in your post.

Here it is for those looking to give this a shot.....

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/robin-miller/stuffed-pork-loin-with-butternut-squash-and-blue-cheese-recipe/index.html