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Grapefruit BBQ Pork

Danielle Simone

I love cooking pork tenderloins in the oven because of how simple it can be. With a few simple steps, you’ll have yourself a lean, tender protein that can easily be inspired by an endless amount of flavor options. You can simply choose to cook the pork in your favorite premade bbq sauce, dressing or even create your own marinade. Along with a sweet, smoky bbq sauce, apples and citrus pair nicely with pork. I found a grapefruit marmalade that I thought would fun. I decided to mix my citrus with a sweet bbq sauce and then add few of my own seasoning flavors to the mix. I was extremely pleased with the outcome of this meal and so were my guests :) enjoy!


Ingredients

  • 2 pork tenderloins

  • Olive oil

  • 1 sweet onion, sliced

  • ½ grapefruit, sliced

  • ½ grapefruit, juiced

Sauce:

  • ½  cup barbecue sauce

  • ½  cup grapefruit marmalade

  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

  • ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg

  • 1 teaspoon of salt

Spice rub:

  • Salt

  • Pepper

  • Ground nutmeg

  • Ground cinnamon

  • Garlic powder


Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400.

  2. Trim pork tenderloin of fat and silver skin. Pat dry with paper towel then sprinkle a little of each over the pork: salt, black pepper, ground nutmeg, ground cinnamon, garlic powder.

  3. Drizzle with olive oil and rub spices evenly into each tenderloin. Set aside.

  4. In a small saucepan, heat on low the sauce: bbq, marmalade and spices. Once warm remove from heat and set aside, keeping warm.

  5. Heat a large skillet over medium-high. Once pan is VERY hot, add the tenderloins to the pan and sear all sides, about 30 seconds or so on each. Enough to sear a nice color all over. Remove from heat.

  6. Place sliced onions in a roasting pan, then transfer the tenderloin on top of the onions. Brush meat with some sauce.

  7. Bake for 15 minutes, then brush more sauce on, then bake another 15 minutes.

  8. Remove from oven, squeeze ½ the grapefruit juice over meat then brush tenderloins with sauce one more time. Place sliced grapefruits over meat and broil on low for 3-5 minutes.

  9. Use a meat thermometer and pierce into the thickest part of the tenderloin. Internal temperature of the tenderloins should be 145.

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