Idaho® Garlic Mashed Potato Puffs with Whiskey Black Pepper Pork Loin Slow Cooked and Brown Butter &

Ingredients

• 2 to 3 teaspoons freshly ground sea salt or Kosher salt
• 3 strips bacon (plus an extra three strips, if your roast doesn’t have thin layer of fat on top)
• ¼ cup whiskey
• ¼ cup chicken stock
• 1 whole head garlic (Note: You will roast this next to the roast, but use for the potato puffs)
• 5 to 6 cups vegetable oil for deep-fat fryer (level of oil specified by your fryer model)
• 6 Idaho® potatoes, peeled, cubed, simmered and mashed to make 3 cups mashed potatoes
• 3 large eggs, beaten
• 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 1 whole head of roasted garlic, minced or mashed
• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• 5 tablespoons chives, minced, divided
• salt and freshly-ground pepper
• 2 cups Idaho instant mashed potato flakes
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 2 Granny Smith apples, quartered, seeded, peeled and sliced with a mandolin slicer
• ½ cup whiskey
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• sea salt flakes, to taste