Easy Recipes: Slow Cooker Pork Loin

Sometimes, preparing and cooking nutritious, wholesome meals can be time-consuming and thus we never find the opportunity to make the wonderful foods that perhaps our ancestors ate more often.

The following recipe is no exception: for an absolutely delectable final product, this meal can take up to seven hours, but here’s the catch: You can use a crock-pot or dutch oven to make it, so you can throw a bunch of ingredients, with minimal preparation, into the pot and “set it, and forget it.”

Slow Cooker Pork Loin

3 lbs pork loin
1 can tomato sauce (12 oz)
2+ cups sliced zucchini
4 cups chopped cauliflower florets
1-2 tbsp basil

Add all of the ingredients to a large crock-pot. Cook on low for 5-10 hours, then enjoy. How simple is that? Feel free to add, or mix and match, some of your favorite vegetables and/or spices. Set it up in the morning and have an incredible meal waiting for you when the time is right for supper.

This recipe is big for a reason: store the rest in the fridge, then reheat, for some leftovers the following day or two.

Bob Kaplan holds advance degrees in exercise physiology and business, an undergraduate degree in nutrition, is a nationally certified personal trainer, and owns four Get In Shape For Women locations in Bedford, Wellesley, Westford, and Winchester.

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