Garlic & Apple Butter Pork Tenderloin

(from saymyname’s recipe box)

Serves 4 people

Categories: Main Dish, Pork

Ingredients

  • 1 (1 lb) pork tenderloin
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
  • 1/8 teaspoon mustard powder
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 4 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 4 tablespoons sherry wine
  • The Sauce:
  • 6 tablespoons apple butter
  • 1 tablespoon sherry wine
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 3/4 teaspoon garlic salt, to taste

Directions

  1. In a plastic zipper bag, combine thyme, garlic, mustard powder, the 4 tablespoons of sherry and 4 tablespoons soy sauce; add the tenderloin and marinate in the refrigerator overnight.

  2. 2 Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

  3. 3 Remove tenderloin from the marinade (discarding marinade) and roast the tenderloin, uncovered, for about 15 minutes.

  4. 4 While it’s roasting, combine the apple butter, sherry, soy sauce and garlic salt.

  5. 5 After 15 minutes, take tenderloin out of the oven and quickly cover it with the apple butter mixture.

  6. 6 Increase oven temperature to 400 degrees F, then return tenderloin to the oven and roast another 10 minutes or so, or until a meat thermometer reads 160 degrees F.

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