Spicy African Pork Tenderloin

This is another versatile recipe. You can have the pork in a meal with sides of your choice. I like it with coriander rice and Spiced Butternut Squash and Mint Yogurt Sauce. Or when it's cold you can slice it thinly and have it in a sandwich with lots of salad. It's great in a salad and i also put it in a pasta dish which i will post later.

It is syn free on extra easy.

Preheat oven 200c, 400f, gas mark 5

Ingredients

1 jarred red pepper
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 red chillies
½ tsp ground cumin
½ tsp ground coriander
2 garlic cloves
1 pork tenderloin


Method

In a blender blitz the first 6 ingredients until smooth.
Put the pork into a plastic bag cover with the marinade and rub it in, leave to marinade for at least 2 hours.

Put the pork onto a rack on a baking sheet covered with foil and roast in the oven for 20/25 minutes, until it is cooked to your liking.

Reserve the marinade and put it into a small saucepan, bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes, you may need to add a couple of tsps of water if too thick.
You can use this as a sauce, but be warned it is hot, i used it the next day in my pasta dish.
It will keep in the fridge for up to a week.
Mix it with mayonnaise for a sandwich with the pork.
Thin it down and make a salad dressing.
Rub it into any other meats of fish you are going to cook.
As i said it is very versatile!

Char Siu Pork Roast

This is a slow cooker dish. It isn't syn free, but it is so delicious it is worth the syns. Full of lovely Chinese ingredients and the pork ends up so tender and juicy.

It is very versatile too, you can serve it with rice, pasta, jacket potato, or even in a bun as a pulled pork sandwich.

The whole dish is 16 syns on extra easy, i made 6 portions out of  the whole pot.

Ingredients

2 lbs of boneless pork, loin, shoulder or leg, cut all the fat off

¼ cup of light soy sauce

¼ cup hoisin sauce 10 syns

2 tbsp tomato ketchup 1 syn

1 tbsp honey 3 syns

2 tsps garlic finely chopped

2 tsps ginger finely chopped

2 red chillies finely chopped

1 tsp sesame oil 2 syns

½ tsp five spice 

½ cup chicken stock

Method

Combine all the ingredients apart from the pork in a large plastic bag, add the pork and rub in the marinade, marinade for at least 4 hours, i done mine over night.

Place the pork and marinade into the slow cooker and cook on low for 8 hours.

Remove the pork and shred it, return to the marinade and warm back through then serve.

Garlic and Rosemary Pork Tenderloin

It isn't often i do a roast dinner and never on a Sunday, so i thought i'd treat my husband to a lovely midweek roast, well i guess well be having a roast more often now as it went down so well. The pork was so juicy and tender and the marinade was amazing!! This has got to be one of the best Pork dishes i've ever had!!

Oh did i forget to add it is so easy to make too, only downside is it isn't syn free but at only 3 syns on extra easy for the whole tenderloin it was so worth it!!!

Preheat oven 200c, 400f, gas mark 5

Ingredients

1 large pork tenderloin any fat removed

2 garlic cloves sliced

¼ cup light soy sauce

2 tsp mustard powder

1 tbsp honey (3 syns)

1 tbsp fresh squeezed orange juice

1 tbsp fresh chopped rosemary

Method

Put the loin on a foil covered baking tin, poke holes all over it and push in the slices of garlic, mix all the other ingredients together and pour over the pork, let it sit for at least 30 minutes, basting it with the marinade every 5 minutes.

Roast in the oven for 20 minutes, basting it half way through.

Remove from the oven and let the pork sit for 10 minutes. 

Put the remaining marinade into a pan and heat through, use a jus over the pork.

I served mine with roast potatoes, minted cabbage and roasted asparagus.

Sticky Lemon and Garlic Pork

This is a gorgeous Asian dish, full of crunchy vegetables and tender pork.

Syn free on extra easy.


Serves 4

Ingredients

1 large pork tenderloin sliced thinly
2 tbsp light soy sauce
2 tbsp dark soy sauce
1 lemon juiced
4 garlic cloves
3 cm fresh ginger
1 red chilli
1 large onion roughly chopped
1 carrot shaved with a peeler or cut into matchsticks
½ bag of bean sprouts
1 tin of bamboo shoots
1 red pepper thinly sliced
1 punnet of oriental mushrooms
small handful coriander leaves
Rice or noodles to serve.

Method

In a blender blitz the garlic, ginger and chilli. Mix with the soy sauces, and lemon juice. Marinade the pork for up to an hour.
In a wok sprayed with frylight, stir fry the pork till browned then add all the vegetables and rest of the marinade, stir fry for 5 to 6 minutes till pork cooked through and vegetables are to your liking. serve garnished with the coriander leaves.