Orange Maple Roasted Pork Tenderloin Recipe
My orange maple roasted pork tenderloin was made by me, almost by accident. One night I was scrambling around, trying to figure out what to make for dinner. In the fridge, I had a large pork tenderloin thawed from the night before. I didn’t know how to prepare it. I opened my trusty 2006 Cooking Light cookbook
The original cookbook recipe is a little different than how I prepared it down below. I changed it because I didn’t have all the recipe’s ingredients on hand but enough to make it similar. I used four tablespoons of orange marmalade in place of 1/4 cup of orange juice and two tablespoons of water as a substitute for the sake or rice wine.
But all in all, it was a family hit. I couldn’t believe I roasted whole carrots with a pork tenderloin along with white potatoes, and my children gobbled it up. The sweet maple and orange flavors gave a fantastic taste to the soft carrots and pork. The flavoring was not overpowering so you can taste the flavor of the meat.
Make it Keto Friendly
As I update my recipes, I like to adjust for certain lifestyle and dietary changes that I or my family need to go through. For this recipe, substitute the white potatoes for broccoli and use sugar free orange marmalade and sugar free maple syrup.
Cost to make this recipe
I calculated this complete dinner recipe to cost around $8.75 or $1.46 per serving size.
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This recipe was adapted from the 2006 All-New Complete Cooking Light cookbook. All images and text are all my own and original to One Acre Vintage Homestead – Pumpkin Patch Mountain Homestead.
Orange Maple Roasted Pork Tenderloin
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp. orange marmalade, …[$0.24]
- ½ cup maple syrup, …[$2.24]
- 3 tbsp. soy sauce, …[$0.24]
- 3 tbsp. water, …[$0]
- 1 tbsp. onion powder, …[$0.18]
- 1 tbsp. garlic powder, …[$0.16]
- ⅓ cup chicken broth, …[$0.12]
- 2 lb. pork tenderloin, …[$5.00]
- 3 large carrots, …[$0.12]
- 6 medium potatoes, …[$0.45]
Instructions
- Combine everything in a medium size bowl except pork tenderloin, chicken stock, and root vegetables. Mix until uniform.
- In a roasting pan, place trimmed pork tenderloin in and top with half of orange maple sauce. Save the other half in fridge for later.
- Cover pork tenderloin and set in fridge for at least 2 hours.
- When ready to cook, take marinated pork out and sear over medium high heat in a large skillet. Sear on all sides until golden brown. This will keep the juices in when roasting. Cut tenderloin in half if it does not fit in skillet.
- Return seared pork to roasting pan and add chicken or pork stock and top the pork with the remaining orange maple sauce.
- Add your cleaned and cut root vegetables to the side of the pork.
- Cover and put in oven at 400 °F for one hour.