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| Beer Marinated Pork Tenderloin with Red Cabbage |
I have had a full weekend of eating. Most weekends I try to cook and eat everything from scratch. However, this weekend was the first part of spring break for my oldest so everything was a little wacky. While I eat healthy 99 percent of the time this weekend was full of coffee and chocolate. I absolutely love dark chocolate and allow myself a treat at least once a month in order to keep my sanity. Since I was sick with strep for over two weeks my body wants everything that I normally don't eat so I have been allowing myself a little food self pampering. This week I will be back to my normal cooking and eating schedule. Last week when I was on antibiotics and slowly feeling more like myself I made a number of high protein pork dishes. My family loves pork and to me it is a great comfort food. One of the recipes I tried was for Beer Marinated Pork Tenderloin with Red Cabbage from the March 2013 issue of Bon Appetit magazine.
This recipe has 12 ingredients. It takes 5 hours (including marinating time) and makes 4 servings. I did make a few changes. First since I can't have regular beer I used gluten free beer. I also use a soy sauce which does not have wheat. For the marinating I allowed the pork to sit in the sauce for 5 hours. I ran out of butter right before making this recipe so instead of using butter I substituted canola oil. The recipe has the cabbage cook for 20 minutes, but my husband prefers his cabbage very soft so I let it cook for another 5 minutes. I did have to add a slight bit more water in order that the cabbage did not burn.
The pork in this recipe was very tender. My two boys ate almost an entire tenderloin by themselves, which is a good sign that they loved the recipe. The only thing that I would change is to double the sauce in order that there is enough to pour over the pork on the plate. I also love cabbage and would have liked more than the recipe made so I would double the amount of cabbage. Overall a simple recipe with lots of flavor and one that I would make again.
For the recipe go to Beer Marinated Pork Tenderloin with Red Cabbage.
This combination seems very unique. Specially using beer to marinated pork tenderloin, this food idea sounds very new to me :D
ReplyDeleteThe beer does a great job keeping the pork very tender! It's very yummy :)
DeleteThis reminds me of sauerbraten (?). My mother-in-law makes that, she has a German background. My husband would like this a lot.
ReplyDeleteIt does taste very German, my husband thought that too :)
DeleteI love stuff marinated in beer. It always makes the meat so tender.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it keeps it very tender!
DeleteI agree with Masshole Mommy. Beef marinated in beer tastes really good. Now I know what I want for dinner on Thursday. We'll have some friends who'll be coming over.
ReplyDeleteThe beer marinade does taste great, plus it keeps the meat very tender :)
DeleteOh wow, that looks good! Meat marinated in beer is always the best - and I don't even like beer. :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks :) I agree, it is the best!
DeleteA nice, and different, way to cook tenderloin. usually I see it fried.
ReplyDeleteIt is a different way to cook tenderloin, but it is delicious!
DeleteI'm a big fan of red cabbage, especially when I am at the German place in my part of town. Beer Marinated Pork Tenderloin sounds like a great pairing with this.
ReplyDeletePhil
www.blog.theregularguynyc.com
I'm a big fan of red cabbage also, yum!
DeleteSounds delicious! Thank you for sharing with the Clever Chicks Blog Hop this week!
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Kathy Shea Mormino
The Chicken Chick
http://www.The-Chicken-Chick.com
Thanks for hosting :)
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