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Make Stuffed Iowa Pork Loin With Us!

February 16, 2024 at 8:09 am (Family Stuff) (boss, children, cook, cookout, deal, discount, eat, family, food, grill, home, house, idea, Inspiration, kids, loin, meal, meat, outdoor, pit, pitboss, pork, potatoes, recipe, smoke, smoker, summer, sweet)

We got a new grill and have been trying out all kinds of new recipes and brushing up old favorites around here!

Let me tell you, Pit Boss is the ultimate grill, and we are in love!

We got the Sportsman 1230 Wood Pellet Gas Grill combo. This beauty can smoke, bake, braise, roast, grill, barbecue, char-grill and sear, all in one machine!

So, on to one of our favorite family recipes!

Stuffed Iowa Pork Loin
Ingredients

Vegetables
• 2 tablespoons olive oil (extra virgin)
• 1 small onion (or half of a large onion – chopped in small pieces)
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• 4 garlic cloves (crushed)
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 6 mushrooms (baby portobello – chopped small)
• 2 cups baby spinach (chopped medium/small)

Pork and layering the filling
• 3.25 pounds pork loin (blot dry with paper towels)
• 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
• 1/2 cup crumbled bacon or bits
• 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
• 1/4 large apple (chopped small)
• Meat seasoning or rub (we use Rufus Teague)

Instructions
• As you cook the onion, use that time to chop the other vegetables to save time.

• Heat a large sauté pan on medium heat, add olive oil, then add chopped onion and sauté for 7 minutes or until translucent. Stirring occasionally.

• Add salt, pepper, crushed garlic, stir and cook for 1 minute.

• Add mushrooms, stir and cook for 2 minutes.

• Add chopped spinach, stir and cook for 1 minute or until the spinach wilts. Set aside.

• Preheat smoker to 250 degrees.

• Butterfly the meat

• Spread the mustard evenly on the pork.

• Sprinkle on the shredded cheese, bacon and apple chunks.

• Spread on the vegetable mixture.

• Refold pork and sprinkle with grill seasoning or rub.

• Place the pork on the grill, add the meat thermometer, and smoke for roughly 3 hours or until inside temp reaches 145 degrees.

Viola!

We love ours with grilled sweat potato wedges!

Let me know what you think of the recipe!

And if you have any questions on the grill, ask away!

XO,

Jess