Tomato and Cheese Stuffed Pork Loin

Ingredients:

• 2-2.5lb pork loin
• 2 tomatoes
• 1 cup of shredded cheese (Italian blend)
• 2 garlic cloves
• 3tbsp soy sauce
• 1.5 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tbsp mustard
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• Ground black pepper to taste
• Salt to taste

How to prepare, step-by-step:

1. Prepare ingredients:

   

2. Mix up marinade: soy sauce, mustard, oil and lemon juice:
   

   

   

   

   
   
3. Rinse pork loin and pat it dry with paper towels. Slice it up along the short side into book-like shape (not all the way through, keep meat pieces connected to each other):

   

4. Season with salt and pepper from all sides and inside:

   

5. Lay a baking pan with foil; arrange meat in it and smear with marinade from all sides and especially inside, then cover meat with the foil and put pan to the fridge for 10-12 hours to marinate:

   

   

6. When meat is all marinated, take the pan out from the fridge. Warm up oven to 375F. Slice garlics into small slices, slice tomatoes as well (you want to make tomato slices even and thin, so if you have it – use mandoline slicer or similar tool):

   

7. Arrange 2-3 slices of garlic between 2 pieces of meat:

   

8. Put 2 slices of tomato in:

   

9. And cover up with shredded cheese:

   

10. Repeat with rest of meat “pockets”, tomatoes, garlics and cheese; once done, slightly press meat slices together from sides; fold it in foil and put pan into the oven for 50-60 mins:

    

11. Once meat ready, take pan out, carefully unfold the foil:

    

12. Remove meat from the pan, slice it up and serve: