Honey Apple Pork with Potatoes (One Pan!)

Honey Apple Pork with Potatoes made in a cast iron skillet is the perfect fall meal.

Honey Apple Pork with Potatoes made in a cast iron skillet is the perfect fall meal celebrating honey, apples, roasted potatoes with almost no cleanup and only 7 ingredients.

Honey Apple Pork with Potatoes is the epitome of fall to me. As the summer winds down we’ve been turning to our slow cooker more and more as well as my trusty cast iron skillet to make easy quick meals, and with a recent trip to the apple orchards near us we excitedly pulled out some favorite recipes. Honey Apple Pork with Potatoes made in a cast iron skillet is the perfect fall meal celebrating honey, apples, roasted potatoes with almost no cleanup and only 7 ingredients.

I’ve spoken to you all about WinCo before, it has the most amazing bulk foods section where I stock up on spices, flours and chocolates. For this recipe I bought my Smithfield Marinated Fresh Pork there and the selection was pretty wide in their fresh meat department. I selected the Smithfield Marinated Hardwood Smoked Bacon & Cracked Black Pepper Tenderloin because I’ve never met a black pepper crusted piece of meat that I didn’t adore. Honey Apple Pork with Potatoes made in a cast iron skillet is the perfect fall meal celebrating honey, apples, roasted potatoes with almost no cleanup and only 7 ingredients.

One of our favorite meals (and also a client favorite) is Lemon Salt Roasted Pork with Honey Roasted Apples and Mashed Potatoes. For this meal I did some improvising to make it into a 30 minute meal and in one pan! With only 7 total ingredients (okay so I’m not counting salt and pepper in the ingredient count!) you’ll have the perfect meal for the fall season. Honey Apple Pork with Potatoes made in a cast iron skillet is the perfect fall meal celebrating honey, apples, roasted potatoes with almost no cleanup and only 7 ingredients.

Some tips to cut down on cooking time for your Honey Apple Pork with Potatoes:

  • Cook the potatoes and the pork tenderloin in the pan at the same time. You’re only browning at this stage.
  • While you’re browning the potatoes, cut up the apples. It takes the apples far less time in the oven than the potatoes so you’ll cut down on prep time if you multi-task with browning and prepping at the same time.
  • Don’t underestimate the importance of the lemon zest/juice. I know it can be easier to keep bottled lemon juice, but the added flavor of the zest really makes the whole plate pop.
  • Totally not necessary (but will really enhance the flavor), brown the pork on two of the four sides on the same side of the pan. Then move the potatoes to where the pork was and finish the browning on opposite sides of the pan. The spices/flavors the pork leaves in the pan will add SO much flavor to the potatoes. Just keep stirring every couple of minutes as the potatoes are browning (thats the secret to why the potatoes look SO good in these photos…I only added Kosher salt to them before putting them in the pan). Honey Apple Pork with Potatoes made in a cast iron skillet is the perfect fall meal celebrating honey, apples, roasted potatoes with almost no cleanup and only 7 ingredients.

I’ve been a huge fan of Smithfield for years and it was actually one of the first companies I worked with on this blog. I’ve made a number of recipes for them because of how high the quality of their products are.

In this case the marinated pork is the perfect addition to the Honey Apple Pork with Potatoes, leaving me to prep only the potatoes and apples. Smithfield products can be slow cooked, roasted, sautéed and made in 30 minutes or less which is perfect for school nights, family dinners or pretty much any time you’re looking for real flavor real fast.

Honey Apple Pork with Potatoes made in a cast iron skillet is the perfect fall meal celebrating honey, apples, roasted potatoes with almost no cleanup and only 7 ingredients.
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Honey Apple Pork with Potatoes (One Pan!)

Honey Apple Pork with Potatoes made in a cast iron skillet is the perfect fall meal celebrating honey, apples, roasted potatoes with almost no cleanup and only 7 ingredients.
Course Main
Cuisine American
Keyword Honey apple pork with potatoes, pan seared pork with honey apples
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Servings 6 servings
Calories 496 kcal
Author Sabrina Snyder

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons canola oil
  • 4 russet potatoes , peeled and cut into 1 inch chunks
  • Kosher salt to taste
  • 1 Smithfield Marinated Hardwood Smoked Bacon & Cracked Black Pepper Pork Tenderloin
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 4 apples , cored and chopped into 1 inch chunks (not peeled, I used 2 granny smith and 2 fuji)
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1 lemon , zested and juiced

Instructions

  1. Add the canola oil to your cast iron skillet and heat on high.
  2. Pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees.
  3. Season the potatoes with Kosher salt and pepper to taste.
  4. Add the potatoes to half the skillet and the pork to the other half.
  5. Brown the pork for about 2 minutes a side.

  6. After you brown the first two sides swap the potato and pork placement in the skillet so the potatoes can capture some of the pork flavors as well.
  7. Once all four sides are browned, push the potatoes to one side.
  8. Put the pork in the middle of the pan.
  9. With a spatula scrape the leftover black pepper seasonings to the pork/potato side of the pan.
  10. Add the butter and apples to the empty part of the pan and stir together until the butter is melted.
  11. Add the honey and stir again.
  12. Place in the oven for 15 minutes.

  13. When done cooking add the lemon juice over the apples and the zest over the pork and the apples.
  14. Garnish with parsley if desired.
  15. Wait 2-3 minutes before slicing into the pork.

Nutrition Facts
Honey Apple Pork with Potatoes (One Pan!)
Amount Per Serving
Calories 496 Calories from Fat 144
% Daily Value*
Fat 16g25%
Saturated Fat 5g31%
Cholesterol 108mg36%
Sodium 121mg5%
Potassium 1324mg38%
Carbohydrates 54g18%
Fiber 5g21%
Sugar 25g28%
Protein 35g70%
Vitamin A 182IU4%
Vitamin C 16mg19%
Calcium 35mg4%
Iron 3mg17%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

 

Honey Apple Pork with Potatoes made in a cast iron skillet is the perfect fall meal celebrating honey, apples, roasted potatoes with almost no cleanup and only 7 ingredients.Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Smithfield® Marinated Fresh Pork. The opinions and text are all mine.

About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

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  1. Loved the recipe but I didn’t have any potatoes so I substituted sweet potatoes instead just sliced them thin and added some cinnamon,nutmeg ,butter, and a little bit of brown sugar. It was really smelling like call with the sweet potatoes,pork, and apples cooking together. Thanks for the recipe.