Classic recipe for pork with oranges
You can bake absolutely any meat with oranges, but tenderloin, neck, ribs and other similar pieces with high taste properties and a low content of films and muscles are especially successful. Meat can be cooked in large pieces or in small portions.
Ingredients:
- Pork ham – 1.5 kg
- Garlic – 5 cloves
- Oranges - 4 pieces
- Lemon - 1 piece
- Honey - 2 tablespoons
- Salt to taste
- Herbes de Provence - 3 teaspoons
- Ground black pepper to taste
Prepare the meat, put it in a bowl. Peel the garlic, chop 2 cloves and add to the meat, crush the remaining 3 and place in a small container. Remove the peel from 2 oranges in a spiral, cut 1 orange into circles. Squeeze the juice out of 3 oranges and 1 lemon, pour it over the meat and marinate, turning occasionally, for 1-2 hours. The longer the meat is marinated, the softer it will be.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Add honey and Provençal herbs to a small container with garlic and stir. Remove the meat from the marinade, add salt, pepper and coat with the honey-garlic mixture. Place the meat in a mold and place in the oven, basting with the remaining marinade from time to time. Baking time is about 1 hour 40 minutes. About 20 minutes before the end of cooking, cover the meat with orange slices and peel.
Ingredients
Before you start cooking orange roasted meat, carefully inspect the contents of your refrigerator and pantries to be sure that you have all the necessary ingredients to create this dish. So, to prepare the dish we need:
- kilogram of pork;
- four oranges;
- five cloves of garlic;
- three glasses of meat broth;
- two tablespoons of honey;
- a tablespoon of starch;
- lemon;
- black pepper and salt to your taste.
How to cook in foil
Pork with oranges will not only diversify your holiday table dishes, but will also surprise all guests with its unusual taste. The citrus aroma will highlight the taste of the meat and add a sweet and sour note. When baking, the meat is supplemented with honey, garlic, lemon juice, mustard and various seasonings. Pork loin baked with oranges and Dijon mustard will become an unforgettable main dish of the holiday table.
Ingredients:
- Pork loin 1.5 kg
- Oranges 2 pcs.
- Orange juice 2 tbsp. l.
- Onions 2 pcs.
- Mustard 200 g
- Honey 1 tbsp. l.
- Garlic 2 cloves
- Fresh thyme 2-3 sprigs
- Chili pepper 1 pinch
- Ground pepper
- Salt
Cut onions (1.5 pieces) into half rings, and half finely. Place Dijon mustard in a bowl, add honey, finely chopped onion, chili pepper, ground black pepper, orange juice and mix well.
- We wash the pork loin, dry it with paper towels, rub it with garlic, salt and ground pepper.
- Peel the orange, divide it into slices and remove the white film.
- Place the onion cut into half rings into the bottom of a large bowl, add the prepared orange slices and sprinkle with salt and ground pepper.
- Place a piece of loin on the onions with oranges, completely fill the top part with the prepared mustard marinade and add sprigs of fresh thyme.
- Cover the pork and refrigerate overnight.
The next day, place the onions and oranges on foil, place the marinated loin and thyme on top and cover with foil. Place the pork and oranges in a mold and bake in a preheated oven at 210 degrees for 15 minutes, then reduce to 170 degrees and bake for 1 hour. 15 minutes before cooking, open the foil and bake the meat until brown.
Take out the finished delicious loin with oranges, leave for 10 minutes and serve with vegetable side dishes and salads. The pork is incredibly flavorful and very juicy.
Quick recipe
Beef with oranges according to this recipe turns out very bright and tasty.
What to take:
- 0.8 kg veal or beef fillet.
- four oranges;
- two tbsp. l. soy sauce;
- two tbsp. l. rast. oils;
- a tablespoon of corn starch;
- green onions;
- a tablespoon of sesame seeds;
- two cloves of garlic;
- salt;
- rice for preparing a side dish.
Roasting meat:
- Cut the meat into thin slices. To make this easier, you need to use frozen.
- Fry thin slices of beef on both sides in vegetable oil.
- Remove the pieces from the pan, season with salt and pepper and place on a plate.
Preparing the dressing:
- Grate the zest of one orange into a bowl, squeeze the juice from two oranges.
- Chop the garlic and place in a bowl, then pour in the soy sauce.
- Dilute corn starch in a spoon of water and combine with the prepared mixture.
Finishing the dish:
- Pour the prepared dressing into the heated frying pan and cook until thickened, about one minute.
- Peel the remaining two oranges and divide into slices.
- Place fried slices of meat and orange slices into the resulting sauce, but do not stir. Keep in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to a plate.
- Stir, add sesame seeds and chopped green onions.
- Boil the rice and serve with the beef with oranges as a side dish.
Meat prepared in this way can be eaten both hot and cold.
Pork with oranges in a frying pan
Delicious tender aromatic pork with oranges, fried in a frying pan, will decorate your holiday dinner. Pork with oranges is easy to prepare and always turns out juicy and tender.
Ingredients:
- 0.5 kg pork
- 1 orange
- 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
- salt
- pepper
- seasonings
Cut the meat into small pieces, lightly pound, pepper and sprinkle with seasoning, place in a bowl. Squeeze the juice from the orange, add 1 tbsp to the juice. l. vegetable oil and pour this mixture over the meat. Let the meat rest in this marinade for about 2 hours, more is possible. Turn it over sometimes. Before frying, remove the meat from the marinade, salt it and fry in a hot frying pan until cooked. Shortly before cooking, pour the remaining marinade over the meat and let it boil. When serving, decorate it with herbs and basil. Pork with oranges, cooked in a frying pan, turned out very beautiful and juicy.
With bell pepper
Another recipe for beef with orange - with sweet pepper. The following products will be required:
- 0.5 kg beef;
- 250 ml water;
- two bell peppers (yellow and red);
- two tbsp. l. soy sauce;
- two oranges;
- ½ teaspoon fresh grated ginger;
- a teaspoon of corn flour;
- vegetable oil - to taste.
How to do:
- Rinse the beef lightly with water, dry with a paper towel, cut into small pieces and pound.
- Cut the pepper into thin strips.
- Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat and fry the pepper for 10 minutes, then transfer it to a separate bowl.
- In the same frying pan, after the pepper, fry the pieces of beef until golden brown. Then pour in water, after it boils, simmer for one hour.
- Remove the zest from one orange and squeeze out the juice.
- Mix separately grated ginger, orange zest, soy sauce, juice and corn flour.
- Peel the second orange and cut it into circles.
- When all the liquid has evaporated from the meat, add orange sauce, add pepper and chopped orange. Bring to a boil, simmer for a quarter of an hour.
Pork with oranges in a slow cooker
We will bake the pork in a slow cooker in one large piece, so the dish on your table will look festive. The sweet and sour citrus marinade, in which the “piggy” is pre-aged, completely eliminates the specific taste of pork. And thanks to the same marinade, the meat turns out tender, juicy and tasty.
Ingredients:
- Pork – 1000 – 1200 g
- Oranges - 4 pcs.
- Lemon - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 1 head
- Honey - 2 tablespoons
- Olive oil - 2 tablespoons
- Salt - to taste
- Spices (ground black pepper and Herbes de Provence) - to taste
Let's prepare a piece of pork. This could be a ham, neck, shoulder, or loin. It is acceptable to have a small bone. Wash the meat, remove excess fat, wipe (dry) with a paper towel. We collect the remaining ingredients: juicy and medium-sized oranges, lemon, garlic. A little later you will need salt, spices (instead of “Provençal herbs” I have “herbs from Italian cuisine”), honey and olive oil.
- Set aside one orange, and squeeze the juice from the other three and a lemon. Pour it into a deep bowl.
- Cut the garlic there or squeeze it through a garlic press.
- We pierce the pork on each side in several places with a sharp knife, then immerse it in the juice with garlic.
- Leave to marinate in the refrigerator, covering the bowl with a lid or covering with cling film. But, it is advisable to turn the piece of meat over from time to time for better soaking in the marinade. Marinate for at least four hours. You can leave it overnight.
After the meat has been marinated, we make the coating mixture. In a small bowl, mix honey, olive oil and garlic cloves passed through a press.
We take the meat out of the marinade (wait to pour out the marinade), coat it with a honey-butter mixture, sprinkle with pepper and herbes de Provence, and add a little salt. And put it in a multi-cooker bowl. Close the lid of the multicooker. On the display we set the “Baking” mode and the time to 30 minutes.
While the meat is cooking, cut the remaining orange into slices - rings or half rings. After the signal, open the multicooker and turn the pork over to the other side. Place an orange on top of it, and also place orange slices in a bowl around the meat. Pour the remaining marinade there. And again turn on the device to the “Baking” mode and the time is 30 minutes.
Marinate the meat
Judging by the recipe for meat with oranges, the main stage of preparation is marinating the pork. To do this, rinse the meat thoroughly under cold water and remove fat. After this, we cut the whole piece of meat along the grain into slices 2 cm thick, each of which is thoroughly beaten. Put the meat aside, peel and cut two cloves of garlic into slices, carefully squeeze out the juice from three oranges and a lemon to the last drop. Mix the juice with garlic, turning the meat several times, pour the marinade over it, after placing it in a deep bowl. Set the pork aside and let sit for a couple of hours.
Pork with honey and oranges in the oven
Recipe for festive pork with oranges. The dish turns out not only juicy and tasty, but also very beautiful. Thanks to honey, an amber crust appears on the piece. It is advisable to use a neck.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of meat;
- 1 orange;
- 1.5 tbsp. l. honey;
- 0.5 glasses of water;
- pepper, salt.
Preparation
- Rub the meat with salt and pepper and leave for an hour. It is advisable to cover the piece so that it does not dry out.
- Wipe the prepared orange dry and remove the zest with a fine grater. Or remove the crust with a vegetable knife, then chop.
- Mix honey with half a glass of water. Squeeze citrus juice onto them. Add a little salt to taste.
- Pour the prepared honey marinade over the meat and leave for another hour.
- Place the piece in a greased pan and pour the marinade on top.
- Place the pork in the oven, temperature 180.
Every 15 minutes you need to water the piece with orange marinade. A piece with moderate fat content will take 1.5 hours to cook.
Bake the meat
The final stage of cooking meat with oranges in the oven remains. First, take the meat out of the container, let it sit and dry for a while, and then coat it with garlic sauce and place it in a baking pan. Place the baking sheet with meat in a well-heated oven and bake at a temperature of 190 0C for 20 minutes. Take out the baking sheet with the prepared meat and pour the orange sauce over the pork several times. Then put the meat back in the oven and bake it until done for another 15 minutes. All we have to do is get the most aromatic, tender meat and invite the household to the table. Potatoes, rice or steamed vegetables are perfect as a side dish.
Pork with oranges and cheese
Recipe for the most tender pork chops with oranges in the oven. Similarly, you can use grapefruit or tangerines, it also turns out delicious.
Ingredients:
- 2 oranges;
- 140 g cheese;
- 2 spoons of ketchup;
- 0.6 kg pork tenderloin;
- a couple of spoons of soy sauce;
- spices.
Preparation
- We lay the meat across the fibers in 0.5 cm pieces. Place them on a cutting board and carefully beat them with a hammer. To prevent splashes from flying to the sides, you can cover it with film.
- Combine ketchup and soy sauce, add spices to taste, pepper and rub the meat with this mixture. Place them on top of each other and leave them on the table.
- We first peel the oranges, then divide them into slices and remove the white film from each. You need to get clean citrus pulp. Cut it into cubes.
- Place the meat on a baking sheet in one layer. Place the orange slices on top, trying to cover the surface evenly so that the entire slice turns out juicy.
- Bake for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.
- Grate hard cheese.
- Take out the pan with the meat. We quickly place the cheese on top of the oranges so that the meat does not have time to cool.
Return the dish to the oven and cook for another quarter of an hour until a golden brown crust of cheese appears on top.
With chickpeas
For this dish you will need the following ingredients:
- 1.4 kg beef;
- two oranges;
- three tbsp. l. olive oil;
- one and a half glasses of dry red wine;
- six glasses of hot vegetable broth;
- three bay leaves;
- two cinnamon sticks;
- two cans of canned chickpeas (total 800 g);
- a pinch of nutmeg;
- black pepper;
- salt;
- cilantro.
Now we will cook beef with orange in the oven according to this recipe:
- Heat olive oil in a cauldron (or cast iron pan).
- Cut the beef into small cubes, put in a cauldron, pepper, salt and cook while stirring over medium heat for about 10 minutes.
- Slowly pour in the wine, stir, cook for another two to three minutes.
- Add three bay leaves, then the hot vegetable broth, cinnamon, nutmeg, pepper to taste and salt.
- When it boils, add the chickpeas, cover with a lid and place in an oven preheated to 180° for one hour.
- After an hour, put the oranges cut into circles into the cauldron and continue cooking for another half hour.
Sprinkle the finished meat with chopped cilantro and serve.
Pork with oranges in Greek style
Take these ingredients:
- 1.5 kg meat for chops,
- 5 cloves of garlic,
- 4 oranges,
- 1 lemon,
- 2 tbsp. spoons of honey,
- 3 teaspoons chopped thyme,
- salt pepper,
- 750 ml vegetable broth (cubes),
- 200 g pitted olives without fillers.
Peel the garlic, chop 2 cloves coarsely and place in one bowl with the pork. Peel 2 oranges in a thin spiral. Squeeze the juice from 3 oranges and 1 lemon, pour it over the meat, cover with a lid and leave to marinate for 1-2 hours. (You can marinate for 20 hours overnight, throw some orange peels into the marinade). Heat the oven to 200 degrees. Crush 3 cloves of garlic, mix with thyme and honey. Remove meat from marinade. Salt, pepper and coat with seasoned honey. (It’s better to sprinkle meat coated with honey with thyme so it won’t drip).
Place the meat in a roasting pan and put it in the oven for 30 minutes, or on the grill, so that the meat browns a little and the honey forms a crust. Then add the lemon-orange marinade and vegetable broth and cook for the next 30 minutes, basting occasionally. Add the whole jar of olives with juice and orange peel spirals and leave in the oven for another 30 minutes. Cut the roast into pieces and arrange with slices of the 4th orange, and serve.
Meat accordion with oranges
If you are not interested in regular baked pork with citrus fruits, but want to prepare a more exotic dish for the holiday, bake pork in the shape of an accordion, which will become a real decoration for any table. We will need the following ingredients:
- kilogram of pork;
- three oranges;
- two tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- three cloves of garlic;
- coriander, black pepper, grated ginger root, salt, thyme and paprika to taste.
To prepare meat with oranges, take a piece of pork, rinse it thoroughly under cold water, remove fat and film, and then dry it with a paper towel. Take a sharp knife, cut the meat along the grain, without cutting it all the way through, so that you are left with a whole piece of pork, but with cuts. Salt the meat and place it on a baking sheet lined with foil. Mix all the spices with vegetable oil and brush the pork with the aromatic mixture. Next, take an orange, cut it into thick slices, each of which is placed in a separate slot on the pork. You can remove the skin if it is too thick, otherwise it will taste bitter. Cover the meat with foil and set aside to marinate for an hour. After this, without unwrapping, we send it straight into a preheated oven, where the pork will be baked for 50 minutes at a temperature of 190 0C. After the specified time has passed, remove the foil and put the meat back in the oven for 10 minutes so that it is baked until golden brown in the open form.
Recipes with sauces
The pork in the sauce is tender and very tasty. This is a win-win way to cook meat for a family lunch or dinner. Anyone who has tried meat cooked with oranges knows exactly how aromatic and juicy it comes out, be sure to try these recipes.
Pork with oranges and soy sauce
Ingredients:
- Pork meat - 700 g
- Orange - 2 pieces (large)
- Soy sauce - 0.5 cups
- Honey - 1 tbsp
- Garlic - 2-3 cloves
- Oil for frying - olive oil is possible
- Spices
- Salt pepper.
Remove excess membranes from the pork pulp, cut across the grain and lightly beat. Next, cut the meat into pieces approximately 2.5 cm in size.
Prepare the sauce: squeeze the juice of two oranges. Add a tablespoon of honey to the sauce and stir. Add spices to the sauce, squeeze the garlic cloves through a garlic press, add soy sauce, stir.
Pour orange-soy sauce over our prepared meat. Let it marinate - the longer the meat is marinated, the better, maybe overnight. But 2 hours will be enough. Place the pork in a heated frying pan with oil and lightly fry on all sides.
Pour half of our sauce over the meat, close the lid and simmer for 20 minutes, then pour the remaining sauce over the meat and let it cook for another 15-20 minutes. Salt the meat 5-7 minutes before the end of cooking.
You can prepare this dish “Pork in orange-soy sauce” in a slow cooker.
Belgian onion sauce for pork with oranges
For a completely original presentation of meat, we prepare Belgian onion sauce for our aromatic, spicy, orange pork.
Ingredients:
- Pickled onions - take everything that was in the marinade;
- Orange juice – 150-200 ml;
- Vegetable oil – as needed;
- Honey (or sugar), bay leaf, rosemary, ground allspice and chili, salt - to taste.
How to properly prepare onion sauce at home for baked pork:
- Fry the pickled onions in oil along with bay leaves, rosemary and peppers.
- Combine spicy fried onions with orange juice (preferably freshly squeezed) and honey/sugar.
- Simmer the mixture, stirring, over low heat for 15-20 minutes. If necessary, season, add spices, orange juice or boiled water.
- Cool, remove bay leaves and blend with a blender until smooth and fairly thick.
Do you want to impress your picky gourmet friends who already consider black truffles an ordinary food?! Then garnish your unsurpassed pork with sweet and spicy nuts.
Orange sauce
It’s better to take fattier pork, the neck, for example, then it definitely won’t come out dry. Cut it into thin slices and dry with towels, removing excess moisture from above.
- Rinse the oranges and squeeze the juice out of them. If you don’t have a juicer, then cut the fruit into halves and simply crush them, piercing the pulp with a knife or fork.
- Pour the juice into the meat. Place the pork pieces in a ceramic baking tray and pour in a small amount of vegetable oil (I used olive oil).
- Cut the onion into thick rings and place on the meat and on a baking sheet. Pour in the freshly squeezed orange juice and sprinkle the meat with pepper and all-purpose seasoning or salt to taste.
We bake the pork. Cover the dish with meat with foil and place everything in a preheated oven for 40-45 minutes . And in order for the pork to be covered with a pleasant golden brown crust after baking, remove the foil and leave the meat in the oven for another 15-20 minutes . But if you are not a fan of roasted pork, then continue cooking without removing the foil from the baking sheet.
How to bake pork in soy sauce with oranges
The highlight on the holiday table can be pork in soy sauce with citrus fruits. It is prepared from available products. The appetizer turns out very tender, literally melts in your mouth. And citruses give a fresh taste. The recipe requires:
- 700 g pork;
- 100 ml soy sauce;
- 2 oranges;
- 3 garlic cloves;
- 1 tbsp. l. honey;
- a pinch of ground black pepper;
- a pinch of salt;
- vegetable oil for frying.
As a side dish you can serve boiled rice or potatoes, vegetables
Steps:
- Wash the pulp and remove films. Then cut into several pieces in the direction across the grain, beat lightly. Cut even smaller into pieces 2-3 cm in size.
- Prepare the sauce. To do this, take citrus fruits and squeeze the juice out of them.
- Mix it with honey and seasonings.
- Pass the garlic cloves through a press and add to the orange-honey mixture.
- Pour in soy sauce and stir again.
- Pour the resulting marinade over the meat parts and leave for 2 to 12 hours. The longer the marinating time, the more tender the appetizer turns out.
- Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, then add the pork and pour in a little marinade. Simmer covered for 20 minutes.
- Add the remaining sauce and leave on the fire for another quarter of an hour. At this time, salt the dish.
- At the final stage, it can be sent to a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees.