What's for Dinner Tonight?: Slow Cooker Pork Roast with Apples, Carrots and Rosemary

Today, March definitely came in like a lion (boo!). We had gorgeous temps yesterday (70), sunny skies and warm southerly winds. Today it is cold and blustery. I hate being teased by almost spring weather only to be disappointed and reminded that it is only March 1 in the Midwest.

For dinner tonight I’ve got some comfort food going in the crock pot in the shape of a lovely pork roast with carrots, onions, apples and rosemary! I was able to put all of this together in about 20 minutes this morning before I dropped the boy off at school and it had the house smelling wonderful when he got home!

A perfect dinner before I sit down and watch Super Tuesday Election coverage (have I mentioned that I’m kind of a political junkie?)!

Check out the notes section at the end to see how this turned out and happy cooking!

Slow Cooker Pork Roast with Apples, Carrots and Rosemary

courtesy of everydaygoodthinking.com on Pinterest

Ingredients:

• 2 Granny Smith apples, cored and each cut into 8 wedges

• 1 Tablespoon lemon juice

• 4 pounds boneless loin pork roast

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper

• 1 medium onion, cut into eighths

• 4 large carrots, cut into 1 1/2 inch pieces

• 1 sprig fresh rosemary

Directions:

1. In medium bowl, toss apples with lemon juice; set aside.

2. Season roast with salt and pepper.

3. Place half of onions and 4 to 6 apple wedges in slow cooker crock.

4. Top with seasoned roast. Surround roast with remaining apples, onions and carrots. Top with rosemary.

5. Cover and cook on High for 4 hours, Medium for 5 1/2 to 6 hours or Low 7 to 8 hours.

Notes:

My apples were really small. Like, really small. So I used 4 of them instead of 2. Most of them were really mushy, if not disintegrated, which was disappointing. I think next time I might toss the apples with a little bit of cinnamon for some extra flavor and add them in toward the end of cooking, maybe two hours early on Low and one hour early on High. I also used baby carrots instead of whole carrots since they were going to get cut down anyway and I had baby carrots on hand. All in all, a good meal. The boy and husband both had seconds and I’ve still got quite a bit leftover.

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