Crock Pot Pork Tenderloin With Apples and Sweet Potatoes |
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Prep Time: 20 Minutes Cook Time: 480 Minutes |
Ready In: 500 Minutes Servings: 10 |
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This is easy, and slow cooked. Very tender and great flavor. Apples, nutmeg, rosemary, onions, apple cider, white wine and slow roasted. A great slow cooked easy dish. Try a salad with blue cheese dressing and some fresh rosemary beer bread and you have the perfect fall Sunday Football Meal!! I make this all the times for my pool gang. I play pool 1-2 times per week with 5 guys (the girlfriends too) and I usually cook. This is one of the meals for our Sunday night games. It cooks all day while you do other things. You don't lift a finger other than the last hour when I make my beer bread (1 pan wonder) and make a salad). Please give it a try! Ingredients:
2 -3 lbs pork loin |
3 granny smith apples, thick sliced skin on |
1 bosc pear, thick sliced skin on (anjou to me is too soft) |
3/4 cup white wine |
1 cup apple cider (not apple juice) |
1/2 cup chicken broth |
2 large onions, rough chopped |
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg |
1 tablespoon garlic, minced |
1 tablespoon fresh rosemary, minced |
2 bay leaves |
4 sweet potatoes, peeled and cut in quarters do not chop fine |
1 tablespoon olive oil |
3 tablespoons butter (1 to saute, 2 for the crock pot) |
1 tablespoon kosher salt |
1 teaspoon ground black pepper |
Directions:
1. Pork - In a large saute pan add 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon olive oil and heat to medium. Season the pork loin well with salt and pepper and sear on medium heat until golden brown on all sides. Just a minute or less per side.
2. Crock pot - Add the pork to the crock pot. To the pan with pork drippings add the apple cider and just deglaze the pan and stir/scrape up all the drippings with a spatula. Add immediately to the crock pot.
3. Add everything else to the crock pot, vegetables, seasoning, butter, apples, pears, wine, onions, sweet potatoes, etc and just cook.
4. Cook - 8-10 hours on low or 6-8 hours on high.
5. Enjoy - Slice thin and serve. You can thicken the sauce if you want with a little slurry of corn starch and water but I find that the potatoes and pork soak up most of the juices. The onion and apples are sweet and everything is just perfect. Just a small salad.
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