Roast pork with lardons

Name: Roast pork with lardons
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons honey; 4 lemons; 5 sprigs sage; 2 ounces slab bacon, in one piece; 12 sage leaves; 2 tablespoons neutral oil, such as grapeseed or canola; 30 pearl onions, peeled; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; One 2½- to 3-pound bone-in pork loin roast; 4 tablespoons butter; 2 tablespoons neutral oil, such as grapeseed or canola; 2 tablespoons neutral oil, such as grapeseed or canola

Preparation info

Makes
4
servings

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 30

Appears in

Simple to Spectacular

By Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Mark Bittman

Published 2000

About

This is a dish with plenty going for it: It is sweet (onions and honey), sour (lemons), and even homey, what with the sage and bacon.

Ingredients

2 ounces slab bacon, in one piece
12 sage leaves
One 2½- to 3-

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Cut the bacon into 12 long thin pieces and wrap each one in a sage leaf. Using a knife and your fingers, poke 12 holes in the meat and shove these little packages into them.
Preheat the oven to 450°F. Combine 2 tablespoons of the butter with the oil in