Slow Cooker Pork Loin with Red Wine Sauce

On Sunday, my husband and I were able to make the first meal in our All Clad slow cooker. See we got this slow cooker as a wedding gift but never actually got to use it because the insert broke:( We were able to purchase a new insert and 6 months after our wedding we made our first meal in it!

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Ingredients:

• Pork loin roast
• Red Wine
• Red potato
• 1 onion
• 2 tart apples
• Packet Italian dressing

Put cut up apples and onion in bottom of slow cooker:

Add potato:

Pour about 2 cups wine on top of fruit and veggies:

Pour Italian dressing packet on pork loin. Place pork loin on top of apples, potato, onion and wine mixture:

I cooked this in the slow cooker, on high for 4 hours:

Here is what the dish looked like once the 4 hours was up:

I placed the meat on a big plate and the veggie/fruit combo in a bowl. Pour the wine from the bottom of the slow cooker into a sauce pan and boil down, this will be used as a sauce for the meat:

My manly husband carving the pork (that sentence just made me giggle a bit):

All plated up and ready to eat:

The pork was cooked all the way through which is always a good thing:

The flavor was really good and the red wine sauce added a little extra flavor:

My favorite part of the meal would have to be the potato! These babies did a great job of soaking up the wine which made the flavor wonderful:

Verdict:

This dish was good and will most likely be made again with a couple fixes. Here is a list of the things I would do differently:

• Cook the pork on low for a longer amount of time. I'm thinking this would make the meat more moist.
• More potatoes in the mix because they were awesome!
• Cook down the wine more so it becomes more of a syrup.

I love our All Clad slow cooker and can't wait to make more with it. Especially soup!!!

Question:

What do you like to make in your slow cooker? I would love to try out some of your ideas!