Walnut Stuffed Pork Tenderloin
Hello friends, today we are making a stuffed Pork Tenderloin. Served on a bed of Mashed Potatoes and a Port Wine sauce. This dish is to die for I can't wait for you guys to make this! Let me know how you all do. Remember everything I do is simple, even a child could do it!
Recipe Video
Recipe Ingredients
Brine
- 3 tablespoons Salt
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar or Molasses
- 1 1/2 quarts Water
- ONLY if you have them add 10 cracked Juniper Berries
- 2 Bay Leaves
Cook the Tenderloin
- ½ cup blanched Walnuts
- 1/3 pound Pork and Fennel Sausage
- 2 tablespoons chopped Cilantro
- ½ cup Apricot chopped into small pieces
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Recipe Instructions
- for the Brine
- In a small glass lasagna pan, dissolve all the ingredients and place the cleaned pork tenderloin, cover and refrigerate for about 3 hours. Remove from the brine and pat dry with paper towels.
- for the Tenderloin, Preheat Oven 400°
- Chop the walnuts into small pieces and add them to the sausage with cilantro, apricot, salt and pepper and mix well.
- Using a boning knife butterfly the tenderloin be sure not to cut it all the way through. Using a plastic wrap, pound it until it is about ¼ of an inch thick. Salt and pepper and carefully cover the center of the tenderloin with an event thin layer of the sausage. Using the same technique as you would when you roll sushi carefully roll the tenderloin and using a butcher twine tie the entire tenderloin.
- In a sauté pan, heat some olive oil. When hot, add the tenderloin and cook on all sides until golden brown. Place in oven and cook for about 8 minutes or until 140/145°.