Jerk Pork Loin With Mango Cucumber Salsa

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This jerk-marinated pork has tons of land spirit and conscionable capable heat, which is offset by the cool, fruity salsa served alongside it. The make-ahead thought present is that you tin marinate the pork successful the refrigerator for a mates of days oregon successful the freezer for months, truthful each you request to bash erstwhile you privation it is defrost, if frozen, and popular it successful the oven. Any leftover cooked nutrient besides tin beryllium reheated oregon served astatine country somesthesia arsenic portion of a acold sheet oregon successful sandwiches.

You’ll request a thermometer for monitoring the meat, and a roasting cookware with a rack.

The pork needs to beryllium marinated successful the refrigerator for astatine slightest 3 hours and up to 2 days, oregon successful the freezer for up to 2 months. The cooked, sliced pork tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 3 days oregon wrapped good and frozen for up to 3 months; defrost successful the refrigerator for 24 to 36 hours. The salsa tin beryllium refrigerated (without the cilantro) for up to 3 days successful advance.

Ingredients

For the pork

  • 1 tiny onion, coarsely chopped
  • 1/3 cupful distilled achromatic vinegar
  • 3 tablespoons canola oregon different neutrally flavored oil
  • 8 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
  • 1 mean jalapeño pepper, stemmed but not seeded, past coarsely chopped
  • 2 teaspoons dried thyme
  • 1 spoon crushed allspice
  • 1 spoon freshly grated nutmeg
  • 1/2 spoon crushed cloves
  • 1/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
  • One 2-pound boneless pork loin (not a tenderloin)
  • 1 bay leaf

For the salsa

  • 1 cupful finely diced caller mango
  • 1 cupful finely diced seedless cucumber
  • 3 tablespoons minced reddish onion
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons caller lime juice, oregon much arsenic needed
  • 1/4 spoon salt, oregon much arsenic needed
  • 1/8 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
  • 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro leaves

Adapted from “You Have It Made: Delicious, Healthy, Do-Ahead Meals,” by Ellie Krieger (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016).

Tested by Richard Kerr.

Published January 4, 2016

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Updated March 15, 2026

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