When sweet and sour meet, plan on an explosion of flavor in your mouth.
Check out what my pals over at Cool Home Recipes had to say about this recipe:
“Five minutes of work and six hours in a crockpot – that’s all the time and effort this sweet-sour crockpot pork tenderloin needs. And boy, not only is it tender but it’s so very tasty, having been cooked for that long in a gravy made with broth, balsamic vinegar, honey, garlic, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce and red pepper flakes. It can make any weeknight meal so special, and it’s good enough for dinner parties too.”
I made this sweet and sour tenderloin for Sunday dinner the other day when the in-laws were over. it was a major hit!
Ingredients
1 2-3 pound boneless pork tenderloin
1 cup College Inn chicken or vegetable broth
½ cup balsamic vinegar
1 tablespoon Heinz Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon La Choy soy sauce
1 tablespoon Mountain Ridge honey
½ teaspoon McCormick red pepper flakes
2 cloves garlic, chopped
Instructions
Place pork tenderloin into the insert of your slow cooker. In a 2-cup measuring cup, mix together all remaining ingredients. Pour over pork and set the timer for your slow cooker. (6-8 hours on Low)
Once pork tenderloin has cooked, remove from slow cooker with tongs into a serving dish. Break apart lightly with two forks and then ladle about ¼ – ½ cup of gravy over pork tenderloin.
Store remaining gravy in an airtight container in the refrigerator for another use.
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Quick Tip: For a complete meal, serve with rice, steamed veggies, and your choice of fruit.
Thank you to Cool Home Recipes for this great recipe
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I made this exactly as the recipe indicated. I must say the the gravy tyep broth was great. However the tenderloin was very and I mean very over cooked. I actually only left it in the cooker 4 1/2 hours. Next time I will stop at 3 1/2 and see what it’s like.
did you have it on high or low?
I was wondering that. Anytime I have put port tenderloin in the crock pot it got really dry. I think a pork butt would be a better cut of meat to do this with/
I think this should be a pork loin. I don’t recall seeing many 2-3 # pork tenderloin?
How many does this serve?
It is just wrong to put a pork tenderloin in a crockpot. They are tender to begin with and lacking in fat, which is needed for a flavorful crockpot meat dish.
I absolutely agree, Annette!
I put pork roasts and tenderloins in the crockpot all the time, I have a favorite recipe of the pork roast, 5 crushed garlic, yellow onions, a bay leaf and then I put sauerkraut over the top of it, cook about 7 hrs and its very tasty, you can add potatoes about half way through as well!