Wild Blueberry Jam with no added sugar actually tastes like blueberries. This sweet and savoury sauce is perfect with pork roast. We imagine it would be equally as good with a whole roasted chicken.
Pork Roast with Wild Blueberry Jam
Good friends Carol and Allan served this one evening many decades ago, and it has become a family favorite.
Regular jam has a lot of sugar; so, we were delighted to find Smuckers jam with no added sugar that works with about 1/3 less Carbs! The good news is a little sauce goes a long way – big on flavor – 1 or 2 TBSP is lots for drizzling!
Ingredients
- 3 – 4 lb pork roast or whole chicken 0 CHO
- 1 cup (250 gr) Smuckers No Sugar Wild Blueberry jam (5 CHO/1 TBSP/15 ml) 83.3 CHO
- 1/3 cup (82 gr) Minute Maid frozen orange juice concentrate (7 CHO/TBSP) 35 CHO
- *1/3 cup pineapple juice (33 CHO/250 ml) 11 CHO
- ¼ cup Gluten Free soy sauce (1 CHO/TBSP) 4 CHO
- ½ tsp. grated onion 0 CHO
- ¼ tsp. minced garlic 0 CHO
- Salt and pepper 0 CHO
- 2 TBSP olive oil 0 CHO
TOTAL CHO 133.3 CHO
- TOTAL WEIGHT 400 GRAMS
- 133.3 CHO DIVIDED BY 400 GRAMS = .333 CHO/GRAM
- 1 TBSP = 16 GRAMS (.333 CHO x 16 GRAMS) 5.32 CHO/TBSP
- ¼ CUP = 4 TBSP (5.32 CHO x 4 21.28 CHO/1/4 CUP)
- ¼ CUP = 64 GRAMS
Instructions
- Pre heat oven to 350.
- Drizzle olive oil over roast and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Cook roast uncovered until internal temperature is 145 – 150, about 35 minutes/lb (depending on your oven).
- Meanwhile, combine the sauce ingredients in small saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes, pretty much stirring constantly.
- Remove about ¼ cup sauce and set aside for basting. Cover remaining sauce and reheat prior to serving.
- Baste pork 2 – 3 times, with reserved sauce, during the last 30 minutes of cooking time.
- Remove roast when internal temperature has been reached from the oven and let rest for 15 minutes prior to slicing.
- Serve remainder of sauce on the side with Roasted Rosemary Potatoes or rice. We like to serve this dish family style, with the potatoes/rice, vegetable of season and orange slices.
- *Orange juice works just as well if you don’t have pineapple juice.
