Pork Tenderloin with Warm Apples

This is a Z2 (ZReduction) recipe. This is comfort food at its finest. The pork tenderloin with the cumin on it lends a bit of an exotic flavor; like Indian food.  If you don’t enjoy that just use your favorite meat-rub. You can also use Italian seasoning for a more traditional flavor.

Serving Size: Serves 4

Ingredients:

  • 2 pork tenderloins
  • 2 tsp of garlic, minced (jar garlic will work)
  • sea salt and pepper to taste
  • 2 tsp of ground cumin (or your favorite meat-rub)
  • olive oil spray
  • 2 cups of organic chicken broth, divided.
  • 4 apples, peeled, cored and sliced. I used Granny Smith.
  • 2-3 tsp of cornstarch
  • cinnamon or apple pie spice to your taste

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Place your pork tenderloins in a 9″ X 13″ oven-proof pan. Spread the garlic across the top, 1 tsp per loin. Then sprinkle the salt, pepper, and cumin across the tops. Spray with olive oil spray.

Put in the oven to roast. Most pork tenderloins will cook in 20 -30 minutes. You want to take it out of the oven when the temperature of the pork reads 160 degrees on your thermometer.

While the tenderloins are in the oven you will make your sauce.

Put in your apples in a large sauté pan with one cup of chicken broth. Bring to a mild boil. Let them bubble to soften. Stir and flip them over periodically. In a separate container when the broth is almost gone add the cornstarch to the second cup of broth and stir to dissolve it. Then add this broth and cornstarch mixture to the pan and continue cooking til the sauce thickens around the apples. The apples should have a bit of bite left in them depending on how thinly you sliced them. Before you take then out of the pan sprinkle on your apple pie spice and stir one more time.

Serve the apples alongside the pork. Your 6 ounce portion of pork will be 3 – 4 medium slices. That means you’ll have leftover ends after you serve 4. You can also have one cup of veggies, I served my pork with the green beans in the picture. Keep in mind that this is your fruit portion for the meal too.

Enjoy!

Cheers,