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Pork with oranges and cheese in the oven

Baked Pork with Oranges and Cheese

Foodies will love the surprising pairing of pork and orange! The meat comes out juicy, savory, and fragrant, under a crust of melted cheese. So good! It's easy and quick to put together — and it disappears just as fast. If you don't care for a hint of bitterness, be especially thorough about peeling the membranes off the orange segments (that's what can make the dish bitter). The cooking time given includes marinating the meat, which is what takes up most of the total time here.

mom of sweet tooth

Recipe author

Pork with oranges and cheese in the oven

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Pork

700

Oranges

Onion

Hard cheese (or use 100 g smoked cheese and 100 g hard cheese)

200

Olive oil

Ground black pepper

Salt

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 36 % 12 g

Fats 55 % 18 g

Carbohydrates 9 % 3 g

219 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Cooking method

Step 1:

The ingredients for this recipe. Along with the pork and oranges, grab an onion, ground black pepper, and salt. You can use all hard cheese, or a mix of hard and smoked cheese. In that case the hard cheese melts while the smoked cheese lends a smoky aroma. Don't use only smoked cheese without any hard cheese. This time I used just hard cheese.
Step 2:

Rinse the pork and trim off any excess fat. Cut it into small pieces. Wash the oranges. Peel one, removing the skin and membranes, then cut it into small pieces, picking out any seeds.
Step 3:

In an enameled or glass dish, combine the pork pieces with the chopped orange, and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Step 4:

Mix the pork and oranges together well. Do it by hand, squeezing the orange pieces so they release their juice. Cover the dish and refrigerate overnight.
Step 5:

The next day, continue cooking. Peel the onion and slice it into half-rings. Grate the cheese.
Step 6:

Peel the second orange and separate it into segments. Grease a baking pan with olive oil. Spread the half-rings of onion across the bottom as the first layer.
Step 7:

Then add the pork pieces along with the oranges they marinated in. Tuck fresh orange segments between the pieces of pork. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
Step 8:

Spread the grated cheese over the entire surface of the pork. Cover the pan with a piece of foil, put it in the oven, and turn the heat down to its lowest setting (mine was 210°F / 100°C). Cook the pork for about two hours this way, so it turns out very tender. About 15 minutes before it's done, remove the foil and brown it over high heat to get a golden crust.
Step 9:

Serve the pork hot, in individual portions. Enjoy!