Our Best Pork Dinner Recipes

Hominy is the signature ingredient in this traditional, chililike Mexican soup.

Shredded Pork Posole

The classic fruit and pork combo gets a bold update: Slather the meat with a paste of garlic, mustard, lemon and rosemary, then serve with ruby red cherries. This recipe multiplies easily for entertaining.

Lemon-Rosemary Pork Loin with Cherry Sauce

Although it sounds like it would be burn-your-mouth-hot, the five-spice powder in this fall comfort food is actually a mild blend that commonly consists of star anise, anise seed, cloves, cinnamon and ginger.

Chinese Five-Spice Marinated Pork Satay

Patrice Hurd of Bemidji, Minnesota, says this moist, sweet and tangy comfort food reminds her of Sunday dinner at her grandmother's in northern Minnesota. Best of all, it's fast.

Skillet Pork and Apple Mini Meat Loaves

Garlic, fennel, fresh herbs and white wine infuse this pork roast with flavor. If you like, set aside half the meat to make Thai-Style Pork Salad later in the week. Pimiento Corn Muffins, mashed potatoes and broccoli make perfect sides.

Wine-Marinated Pork Roast 

Pimiento Corn Muffins

Midwest Living Test Kitchen Director Lynn Blanchard prepares her pork roast with garlic and fresh-from-her-garden herbs. Lynn recommends that you not eek at the roast during grilling: Opening the lid slows cooking.

Lynn's Best Herb-and-Garlic Pork

Maple syrup sweetens this easy meal in a skillet. Fresh fruit or a tossed salad completes the meal.

Sweet Potato and Pork Skillet

This stuffing, which includes sausage, dried Michigan fruit and wild rice, forms a spiral when rolled up into a top loin roast. The recipe comes from New York Restaurant in Harbor Springs, Michigan.

Pork with Cherry and Wild Rice Stuffing

Maple syrup and pears blend for a tasty accompaniment to skillet-cooked chops. This cut of meat cooks quickly.

Pork Chops with Pear-Maple Sauce

Grilled pork bathed in cider-molasses marinade cooks to a gorgeous caramel color.

Sweet on a Pig

The Bavarian Inn in Hermann, Missouri, prepares this Old World pork cutlet classic with style. For schwein schnitzel, add the sour cream sauce (included with recipe).

Classic Schnitzel

Roll a filling of bacon, chopped spinach and Parmesan cheese in pork loin roast to create this main dish, from Turkey Run Inn in Terre Haute, Indiana. When checking the temp of this roast, move the thermometer around so it's resting in meat, not filling.

Rolled Spinach Pork Loin

Saute thin-sliced pork tenderloin, then serve it with tomato-rich Marsala sauce, generously flecked with garlic. The recipe comes from Ohio's Shawnee State Park Resort near the town of Friendship.

Pork Marsala

For more German flavor, heat a can of Bavarian-style sauerkraut to serve with the seasoned slow cooker pork and tangy sour cream gravy.

Bavarian Pork Roast

Season pork tenderloin with a rub of ground chili and mustard seed. The Brazilian-style roasted meat is served over seasoned beans and spinach.

Pork Lombo

This easy, six-ingredient recipe features pork chops slow-cooked in the oven and topped with a sweet-tangy red sauce.

Bigger and Better Saucy Pork Chops

Choose from apple jelly or apple butter to add a hint of sweetness to slow-cooked pork chops. Use fresh or dried thyme, marjoram, basil and summer savory for seasoning.

Apple-Glazed Pork Chops

Root vegetables, apples and tomatoes simmer with melt-in-your-mouth pork sirloin for a robust stew.

Hearty Pork-and-Ale Stew

Wayne Santi of LaGrange, Illinois, cooks gourmet food on the go for cyclists on RAGBRAI, the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. He's made these two recipes for the ride. "The lemon-oregano flavor with the meat's juices cannot be beat," Wayne says. Vegetables and seasonings give the rice side dish a boost of flavor.

Lemony-Soy Herbed Pork Tenderloins with Rice Pilaf