Sweet Apple Pork & Potato

Ingredients:

• 1 lb pork loin roast
• ½ cup apple vodka or apple juice
• 1/4 cup onion, chopped or flakes
• 2 tsp garlic, chopped
• 1 tablespoon sea salt
• 2 apples, cored and quartered
• 1 lb sweet potatoes
• 1 cup chicken broth, with basil vodka
• 2 tsps flour
• ¼ cup mustard
• pepper, to taste
• Optional: 4 slices bacon, 2 large carrots

Directions:
Prep Time: ½ day Total Time: 1 day Yield: 2

1. Marinate pork in re-sealable plastic bag with apple vodka/juice, onions, garlic, salt and pepper for 8-24 hrs.
2. Core and quarter apples, slice sweet potatoes, layer on bottom of crock pot. If adding carrots, add in sliced carrots now.
3. Place pork, with marinade on top of apples and sweet potato, then pour chicken stock over roast. If you are adding bacon, place strips over roast now.
4. Cover and cook on low power for for 7 to 10 hours, or until sweet potatoes are tender and pork is cooked.
5. Once cooked, transfer pork out of crock pot, pour out the marinade into a sauce pan, whisk in the flour and the mustard, continue stirring and bring to a simmer for about 5 minutes.
6. Mash the sweet potatoes, adding butter as you would to normal mashed potatoes, then add half of the apples from the crockpot, mixing in with mashed potatoes. Sprinkle with a little brown sugar if not too sweet already.
7. Serve mashed sweet potatoes (and carrots) on the side of the pork.

Approx. Calories 600 per serving