Pork loin in the oven with potatoes

The preparation of the loin should be started in advance - with pickling. If you plan to serve the dish for dinner, marinate in the morning, and if for a festive lunch, it is best to start cooking in the evening. Although if time is short, then 2 hours of pickling will be enough.

The loin should be rinsed, dried, cleaned from the films, and the fat on it should be cut crosswise.

Prepare the marinade, for which it is necessary to mix honey, soy sauce, vegetable oil, salt and spices to an emulsion state. Rub the resulting marinade on the loin and place it in a plastic container with a lid. Put the meat to marinate in the refrigerator (ideally, you need to shake the container with meat every 45-60 minutes). 30 minutes before baking, remove the container with the loin from the refrigerator so that it warms up.

Turn on the oven to warm up to 200 degrees. Place the loin in a baking dish and put it in the oven for 15 minutes. Next, tighten the mold with foil, and reduce the temperature to 180 degrees. Bake the meat for 60-90 minutes.

While the loin is baking, start cooking potatoes. Wash and clean it. In each potato, make several incisions at a distance of 0.5 cm from each other, without cutting to the end of 3-5 mm. You should get a potato "accordion". Put the potatoes in a saucepan, pour cold water and bring to a boil over medium heat. Turn off the heat, carefully drain the water, remove the potatoes to a platter and cool.

Slice the bacon. The pieces should be the size to match the cuts in the potatoes. Stuff the potatoes with bacon, season them with salt and pepper.

Remove the meat from the oven (it should take at least 60 minutes), raise the temperature in the oven to 190 degrees, remove the foil, spread potatoes around the meat, grease it with vegetable oil and bake for another 30 minutes. If it seems to you that the potatoes have an insufficiently ruddy crust, turn on the grill for 5-7 minutes after the main baking cycle.

Cover the finished meat with potatoes with foil for 5-10 minutes, and then put it on a dish. Serve the pork loin with potatoes hot, garnished with herbs if desired.

Bon appetit!