How to Stuff Pork Loin

Video Transcript

"Ok, now that we have our pork cut its flat about a half inch thick, square piece we have our stuffing what we are going to do, we want to add no more than half inch of stuffing on this. So we will make a square make sure it is even all the way through and you want to about an inch from the edges all the way around. The reason for that when we roll it up the stuffing will expand and it will oooze out the ends so you don't need to go to the ends right off the bat. Just like that. You have our stuffing on the pork and we are ready to roll the pork out. All you need to do is gently fold the pork over you don't want it too tight you want it firm. So just ease it over if you tighten it too much you will loose all the stuffing out of the ends, so we are going ease it around just like so keeping the stuffing in you want the open edge on the very bottom when you roll it or when you tie it up. The technique using the butcher's string it looks difficult but it really isn't. If this is a route you would rather not go, what you can do is get some bamboo skewers and just go through the end and pierce it so that the pork stays shut. Then what you need to do when you bake it so it doesn't open, have skewers on the bottom of the pan that will hold the pork together as the pork cooks it is going to tighten up it will tighten around skewers and won't open up. Make sure you have the open edge of the pork on the bottom. I prefer to use the string. So using the butcher, for a piece this size probably about 1 1/2 arm length of string. You can get butcher string at any fine restaurant supply store or upscale grocery marts. So we are going to bring the string like so and bring it right through the end. Bring it up tie the first end make the first one pretty firm but not too tight. Otherwise again you will squeeze all the filling out. Once that is done the rest is pretty easy you are going to take your thumb bring it down like so slide it under, keep your thumb here you going bring the string around and under like so pull up pull it down just like so repeat that process, up, down. From this point on what we will do heat a saute pan with olive oil we are going to sear the pork then we will go into a 350 degree oven. Cooking time is roughly an hour for the internal temperature you want to be between 170-185 and I will show you how to take the temperatures with a thermometer or to check it without."