Pork Roast Dinner

What’s for Dinner? Pork Roast with Mushroom Gravy

Are you looking for something easy to make?  Consider having a pork roast and baked potato for dinner.

On the menu tonight:

  • Pork Roast with Mushroom Gravy
  • Baked Potato
  • Baby Carrots

Baked Potato

  • Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees.
  • Rinse and dry baked potatoes
  • Puncture each potato with a fork twice

Pork Roast

  • Hint: Line bottom of 13 x 9 baking pan with sheet of tin foil.  This makes clean-up easy.
  • Place rack on top of foil
  • Put pork roast on rack, and season with garlic powder, onion powder, and fresh rosemary
  • Insert meat thermometer
  • Once oven has preheated, place pork roast and baked potatoes into oven
  • Cook 25 – 35 minutes per pound.  Our roasts are usually under 2 pounds, and are ready in 1 1/2 hours.

Pork Roast in Pan

Baby Carrots

  • Boil water for baby carrots (Start this 30 minutes before pork roast will come out of oven.)
  • When water boils, add baby carrots to pan
  • Cook until carrots are soft, about 25 minutes
  • Add sugar and cinnamon for flavor (butter is also optional)

Mushroom Gravy

  • Warm Campbell’s Mushroom Gravy from can

Take pork roast out of oven.  Let it sit for 15 minutes.   Slice and serve with baked potato and carrots.

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