Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Garlic Recipe

Roasted Garlic Pork Tenderloin cooked and served in a flavorful sauce.

This recipe will help you to learn how to cook pork tenderloin in the oven.

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• 📕 What is pork Tenderloin?
• 🥩 Ingredients
• 🔪 How to cook this pork tenderloin?
• 🍴 Serving
• 🍱 Storing & Using Leftovers
• 💭 FAQs
• 📖 Recipe
• 💬 Comments

📕 What is pork Tenderloin?

Pork tenderloin is also known as fillet, which is a long boneless meat cut in a pig.

It's the most tender and usually most expensive meat cut in any animal.

The tenderloin should not be confused with the loin, these are two different meat cuts.

I have a recipe for a pork loin too and a pork loin roast with Sauerkraut, for those who love Dutch oven roasts.

🥩 Ingredients

This is a super simple, but flavorful, pork tenderloin roast.

You will only need a handful of ingredients and the meat doesn't need to be marinated in advance.

Here is what you will need:

• pork tenderloin
• garlic cloves - fresh
• onion
• lard or butter
• broth
• salt and black pepper
• caraway or cumin seeds
• water and all purpose flour to create a slurry (to thicken the sauce)

🔪 How to cook this pork tenderloin?

This is a great recipe for beginners. I loved it and my sister loved it too because it taught her to cook pork fillet the right way in the oven.

Here is a visual overview of how it's done. The recipe with US and metric measurements is located further below in the printable recipe card.

Step 1

Peel and cut garlic, slice onion

Cut holes into the tenderloin and push garlic in. Season pork.

Place lard (or butter), onion and tenderloin into a cooking pot.

Step 2

Sear meat over medium to high heat on all sides.

Pour broth in and cover pot with a lid.

Step 3

Roast pork tenderloin.

Prepare slurry by combining flour and water.

Pour slurry in and finish roasting the meat.

🍴 Serving

Pour some of the sauce in the pot over the meat before serving.

That way it looks shiny, which will bring out the colors of the sear, and the meat will be juicy.

Cut the meat in slices before you intend to serve it.

I love to serve up my pork roast tenderloin with root vegetables such as roasted sweet potatoes, carrots, baked parsnip or roasted turnips.

Mashed potato is a great side dish, as well as braised red cabbage.

Sauerkraut and dumplings is also an excellent choice to enjoy with pork.

🍱 Storing & Using Leftovers

You can keep leftovers cooled in an airtight container for up to 4 days in your fridge.

The cooked pork meat is already cooked but jsut need to be warmed up. That way you can easily use it as a flavorful addition to other meals.

You could add your tenderloin leftovers to your...

• Cuban sandwich - so gooood!
• pasta - to a sauce or in a bake
• rice - as in fried rice
• quesadillas or tacos
• ramen or other asian noodle soups

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