Swedish holiday roast

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 250 g prunes
• 1 cup white wine
• 1 kg pork chop(s), whole, boned
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 m.-sized onion(s)
• 1 m.-sized apple

Instructions

Working time approx. 15 minutes; Rest time approx. 2 hours; Cooking/baking time approx. 1 hour 10 minutes; Total time approx. 3 hours 25 minutes

quick, easy, festive

Soak the plums in the wine for about 2 hours. Then cut notches into the underside of the meat, insert a plum into each notch, and press it into the meat as far as possible. Salt the meat and place it in a roasting pan with the unglaced side facing up. Cut the onion into eighths. Peel and quarter the apples, remove the cores, and also cut them into eighths. Add the onion, apple, remaining plums, and the wine the plums were soaked in to the meat. Place the uncovered roasting pan in the oven. Bake for about 50 to 60 minutes at 175°C fan/convection oven and 10 minutes with the oven off. I prepare the sauce by removing the meat from the oven, keeping it warm, straining the stock, stirring in sour cream if desired, seasoning (perhaps a pinch of cinnamon), and thickening the sauce slightly. Side dish: dumplings, croquettes, potatoes or pasta, and braised apples with cranberries.