Winter Pork Roast and Gravy

Step 1

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Get your pork roast out about 30 minutes before cooking. Pat it dry with a paper towel. Rub the oil you are using all over the roast, on all sides. If your pork roast comes wrapped in string netting, leave it on. Season the pork roast on all sides with the salt, pepper, the paprika, brown sugar, garlic powder, caraway seeds, dry mustard. Press the seasoning into the pork roast. Let this sit for a bit so that you are not searing the pork roast from ice cold.

Step 2

Heat up a skillet with 2 tablespoons of butter, get it very hot but not smoking. Add your pork roast and sear it for about 5 to 7 minutes on all sides. This will take some time, this takes me about 20 minutes to get a nice crust all around. Don't clean the skillet, you will need it for the gravy making.

Step 3

When you are done searing this off, add the roast to a covered roaster. I use my speckled one for this as I feel it is the perfect thickness and cooks the roast perfectly. Feel free to use any roaster you have with a lid or cover with foil.

Step 4

Add the chopped onions all around the roast, add your cup of broth to the onions, sometimes I add a little seasonings to the onions that I used on the roast. You do not gave to. Add a couple of sprigs of rosemary for aromatics. Cover and roast about 20 minutes per pound. I suggest using a meat thermometer. I pull my pork roast at 135 degrees, because it continues to cook 10 to 15 degrees when it is resting outside the oven.

Step 5

Now to make the gravy. Using the same skillet you used to sear, add your butter, then with a slotted spoon, add the onions from the bottom of the roaster to the butter and sauté for a few minutes. Then carefully pour the liquid from the bottom of the roaster to the skillet. Bring this all to a simmer and use a spatula to scrape up the meaty bits from the skillet. You should have at least a cup of broth (liquid from the roaster) If not add enoguh water to make a cup. If you have more than about an approximate cup of liquid in the roaster, do not add it all to the skillet. Sprinkle the pork gravy mix to the skillet, use a spatula and whisk until smooth and simmering. Let this gravy thicken. Slice your pork roast into 1/2 inch slices and add the slices to the skillet, let this simmer in the gravy a few minutes. If you want extra gravy, you can do 2 cups of liquid and 2 packets of gravy.

Step 6

Serve the pork roast slices with mashed potatoes or bread dumplings. These also make delicious pork roast sandwiches on a nice onion roll.