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Christmas Tenderloin
Ingredients
– 2-3 lb pork tenderloin (filleted in half, long ways)
– 5 thick bacon slices
– 1⁄2 cup chopped walnuts
– 3 cups shredded collards
– 4 oz crumbled goat cheese
– 1⁄2 cup of cranberry sauce
– 2 tbs butter
– 1⁄2 tsp salt
– 1⁄4 tsp white pepper
– 1⁄2 tsp onion powder
– 1⁄2 tsp garlic powder
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Season pork loin with salt, pepper, onion powder, and garlic powder. Set it aside.
3. In a large skillet on medium high heat, add bacon and cook until almost crisp.
4. Chop bacon and set aside.
5. In the same skillet, add butter and collards. Cook until collards are wilted. Add walnuts and bacon. Mix. Remove collards mixture and set aside.
6. Place tenderloin in the skillet open faced. Sear each side for 3-4 minutes.
7. Let tenderloin cool down enough to be able to manage it.
8. When the loin is cooled, spread cranberry sauce inside the loin. Then add enough collards mixture and goat crumble cheese to fill the loin without making it overfilled.
9. Close the loin and tie with your butcher twine. Set leftover filling aside for your plating.
10. Bake the loin, seams down, for 30-40 minutes or until the loin reaches 140 degrees.
11. Allow your masterpiece to rest for 10 minutes before cutting and serving.
Note: If you have leftover filling, spread the filling on your serving dish then lay the loin on top.
Cranberry Orange Sauce
Ingredients
– 12 oz fresh cranberries – 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
– 1⁄2 cup water
Directions
1. Make sure to clean and pick out the bad cranberries, if any.
2. In a medium sized pot on medium high heat, add butter and
melt.
3. Mix in cranberries and slowly mix in sugar.
4. Add orange juice and water. Allow the pot to get up to a simmer.
5. You will begin to hear the cranberries pop.
6. Once the cranberries are the desired consistency, slowly mix in the orange zest.
– 1 tbs butter
– 1⁄2 cup fresh squeezed orange juice – 1⁄2 tsp orange zest
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