Whether you're planning a week's worth of lunches, you need weeknight dinner recipes, or a cookout is on the calendar, you can shift from reliable chicken recipes to the elegant pork roast to make things interesting. But what makes this easy recipe interesting isn't just the meat, it's also the rub.

  • TOTAL PREP TIME
    70 minutes
  • DIFFICULTY
    Medium
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Whether you're planning a week's worth of lunches, you need weeknight dinner recipes, or a cookout is on the calendar, you can shift from reliable chicken recipes to the elegant pork roast to make things interesting. But what makes this easy recipe interesting isn't just the meat, it's also the rub.

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 pounds pork loin roast (boneless)
  • 3 1/3 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 2/3 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons black pepper (coarsely ground)
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 3/4 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon onion salt
  • 1/2 tablespoon dry mustard
  • 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1/4 teaspoon paprika
  • 3/4 teaspoon dried thyme (crushed)

Cooking Directions

  1. Stir together brown sugar, sugar, black pepper, salt, ginger, garlic powder, onion salt, dry mustard, crushed red pepper, cayenne, cumin, paprika and thyme in small bowl.
  2. Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
  3. Sprinkle 1/2 cup of the brown sugar mixture evenly on all sides of the pork roast; use your fingers to rub into pork.
  4. Place pork roast on rack in shallow roasting pan or baking dish. Roast pork, uncovered, 40-60 minutes (20 minutes per pound) until internal temperature on an instant-read thermometer reads 145 degrees Fahrenheit.
  5. Remove roast from oven; let rest about 10 minutes before slicing.

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