The ingredients of this dish balance each other out wonderfully, but there is always room for making it your own. The sweet potato can be replaced with any other potato, carrots or parsnip. Add some broccoli for a splash of green, or cauliflower if you like it better. Toss it in a pan and you have dinner ready in 30 minutes!
Ingredients:
1 pork tenderloin – 1lb
2 tablespoons Italian seasoning
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 pear, unpeeled, sliced lengthwise into ½ inch thick pieces
1 apple, unpeeled, sliced lengthwise into ½ inch thick pieces
5 garlic cloves – quartered with wrappers one
1 cup sweet potato sliced into 1 inch by ½ inch pieces
Salt & pepper
Instructions:
-Preheat oven to 338 F (170C).
-Coat 9 inch by 9 inch oven pan in olive oil.
-Pat dry your pork tenderloin and brush generously with olive oil. Season with salt and pepper and sprinkle Italian seasoning all around. Place the pork tenderloin in the pan.
-Slice your vegetables and to very small pieces, about ½ garlic clove size works best (don’t peel them, not even garlic), and add them to the pan with the pork.
-Pork tenderloin which weighs 1 lb |16 oz| 450g should be roasted for 28-32 minutes (or 6-7 min per every 0.22 lb|3.5 oz|100g of meat).
-Remove the pork pan from the oven and rest the meat for 5 minutes before slicing to ½ inch pieces and serving with the roasted veg.
Thank you garlicmatters.com for this weeks recipe!
