Garlic Pork Roast

Name: Garlic Pork Roast
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons, olive oil; 22 cloves, garlic (10 peeled and crushed, 12 unpeeled and left whole); , Salt and pepper; 1 , boneless pork loin roast (2 1/2 to 3 pounds), fat scored lightly; 1/2 teaspoon, red pepper flakes; 1 1/2 teaspoons, chopped fresh thyme; 2 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 1/4 teaspoon, sugar

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2010

Main Courses

Pork

For a strong-but not painful-garlic kick, we tried a three-pronged attack.

SERVES6 to 8

TIME1 ¾ hours, plus 1 hour marinating and 20 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For our Garlic Pork Roast recipe, we found that toasting whole, unpeeled cloves of garlic in a dry skillet tamed them and enhanced their nutty flavor. We tried adding garlic to our usual saltwater brine and found it imparted almost no flavo...

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