Pork Loin, Tomato Sauce and Grilled Sweet Potatoes Slices [smoker + barbecue]
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Comments: For this recipe, you can also use a honey bacon, roasted garlic and herbs or a rosemary and garlic BBQ marinade, even a Creole butter.
If desired double, triple or more the tomate sauce recipe and freeze it for a later use. It is also excellent with grilled chicken,beef or pork, even spread onto a piece of bread.
Sweet potato slices are also delicious with a pork loin grilled with roasted garlic and herbs.
Servings: 12
Approximately 2 cups [500 mL] tomato sauce
  • 1 [5 to 6-pound / 2.27 to 2.7-kg] boned pork loin
  • Creole garlic marinade
  • Cajun seasoning
Tomato Sauce
  • 10 ounces [310 mL] cooking oil
  • 2 pounds [900 g] onions, chopped
  • 1 [6-ounce / 170-mL] can tomato paste
  • 3 cups [750 mL] water
  • 1 [16-ounce / 454-mL] bottle ketchup
  • 1/4 cup [60 mL] Creole garlic marinade
  • 1/4 cup [60 g] sugar
  • 1 tablespoon [15 mL] prepared mustard
  • 2 teaspoons [10 mL] Tabasco sauce
Grilled Sweet Potatoes Slices
  • 6 medium-size sweet potatoes [approximately 10-ounce / 284-g each]
  • 1/2 cup [115 g] butter, melted
  • 2 teaspoons [10 mL] vanilla extract
  • 2 cups [500 mL] brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon [5 mL] ground cinnamon
  • Prepare smoker and soak wooden into water.
  • Pour 1 cup [250 mL] of Creole garlic marinade into a measuring cup.
  • Wrap pork loin into platic wrap; transfer into a roasting pan.
  • Inject pork in several places with marinade, using 1 1/2 ounces [45 mL] marinade per pound [454 g] of meat.
  • Remove plastic wrap and season sides of pork loin with Cajun seasoning.
  • Transfer pork loin over smoker rack; leave to smoke for approximately 4 hours, until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part not touching any bone reaches 155°F [68°C].
  • Slice pork into thin slices and serve sprinkled with tomato sauce, along with grilled sweet potatoes slices.
Tomate Sauce
  • Heat oil into a large casserole.
  • Soften chopped onions into hot oil.
  • Stir in tomato paste and cook for quite a few minutes more.
  • Stir in water until well blended.
  • Mix in ketchup, Creole garlic marinade, sugar, mustard and Tabasco sauce.
  • Leave to simmer slowly uncovered for approximately 30 minutes.
Grilled Sweet Potatoes Slices
  • Preheat BBQ to medium heat.
  • Peel and slice sweet potatoes.
  • Mix together melted butter and vanilla extract into a bowl.
  • Arrange sweet potato slices onto medium barbecue rack over direct heat before brushing them with some of melted vanilla butter.
  • Sprinkle sweet potato slices with half of already mixed together brown sugar and cinnamon.
  • Grill sweet potato slices for approximately 10 minutes, until tender, turning and brushing them with remaining melted vanilla butter after 5 minutes.