Pork recipe for Christmas dinner – 01/12/2025 – Food

The traditional roast at Brazilian Christmas dinner is a challenge to this history. It is no coincidence that dried-out turkeys and their loins often become memes.

This is why Chef Leo Paixao, the chef of Minas Gerais, does not approve of preparing the loin in the oven. “The risk of overcooking is very high. To be tender, the internal temperature must not exceed 60 degrees Celsius, which is difficult to guarantee when roasting,” he says.

See the chef’s recipe for Christmas ham below.

Christmas pork loin

performance: 6 servings

ingredients

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 piece of pork weighs about 1.5 kg
• 1 large onion, roughly chopped
• 1 cup of pitted black plums
• 1 cup white raisins
• 300 ml of dry white wine
• 2 whole heads of garlic, unpeeled, cut in half
• 3 bay leaves
• 2 tablespoons dark mustard
• 1 tablespoon of honey

to prepare

• In a frying pan, over low heat, melt the butter and brown the loin. Add the other ingredients, turn the fat piece side down, cover and cook for 20 minutes. Turn the meat over and cook for another 20 minutes.
• Turn off the heat, remove the loin from the pan and let it rest for 15 minutes on a wire rack. Meanwhile, squeeze the garlic, remove the skin, and drizzle the sirloin fillets with the sauce.