This slow cooker pork roast with applesauce and vegetables is a very easy recipe that tastes just amazing.
The pork has a sweet rosemary mustard sauce that compliments the applesauce beautifully for a wonderful fall meal.
Ahh…the wonders of crock pot recipes. No other kitchen appliance can make a dinner with hardly any preparation at all taste like you spent hours preparing and tending it.
I use my crock pot all the time, but never quite as much as in the winter months, when I prepare more casseroles and roasts.
This recipe for applesauce pork roast is so tasty and delicious and takes not time to prepare.
Making this slow cooker pork roast is easy
There are not many ingredients for this recipe. You can use whatever vegetables you would like – I used potatoes, leeks and carrots today.
Aren’t my salt and pepper shakers adorable?
They are a Christmas gift from my daughter Jess. (we are two peas in a pod, she and I and these salt and pepper shakers remind me of that each time I cook!)
Be sure to brown your roast first. Doing this adds so much more presentation to the finished meal, since slow cookers don’t brown meat.
I used a rosemary infused olive oil.
Once you have the pork roast browned, it is just a matter of laying in the vegetables, putting the pork on top and then spreading it with the delectable applesauce topping and sprigs of fresh rosemary.
Here it is, ready to make my house smell delicious today while it cooks.
At dinner time, just place the veggies on a plate, add a few slices of the pork and top it with some of the applesauce topping that remains in the slow cooker.
Mm, mmmm – delicious and so easy!
I love that the whole meal comes together in the one appliance and no baby sitting, stirring or tending it is needed.
What could be better than walking away from the crock pot and coming back to dinner that is done?
Normally, I add liquid to crock pot recipes but for this one, I just used the applesauce on the pork. To my delight, the vegetables browned during cook and had a perfect texture to them.
The vegetables absorbed just a hint of the apple flavoring and were a perfect compliment to the meat.
Who would have thought it was possible to brown potatoes in a crock pot?
This slow cooker pork roast is just delicious. The applesauce is sweet and the rosemary adds a nice fresh herb touch.
It’s hearty, and satisfying and perfect for cool autumn nights.
Instead of cooking at dinner time, I spent my time enjoying a glass of wine and a logic puzzle. Now that is how I like to start dinner!
Pin this slow cooker pork roast recipe for later
For a reminder of this recipe for slow cooker pork with applesauce, just pin this image to one of your cooking boards on Pinterest.
Slow Cooker Applesauce Pork Roast
This slow cooker pork roast is very easy and tastes amazing. The rosemary mustard sauce compliments the applesauce beautifully for a wonderful fall meal
Ingredients
- 1 boneless pork loin roast (about 3 pounds)
- 1/2 tsp Kosher salt
- 1/4 tsp cracked black pepper
- 4 large carrots, peeled sliced diagonally
- 4 potatoes, peeled and cut in to large chunks
- 3 leeks, washed cut into 1 1/2 inch pieces
- 2 tbsp rosemary infused olive oil
- 1 cup applesauce (I used my home made applesauce recipe but bottled will work too.)
- 3 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tbsp honey
- 3 sprigs of fresh rosemary