Mango Pork Tenderloin with Sweet Ginger Rice and Grilled Pineapple

Recipe courtesy Mark Johnson

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Total Time:
7 hr 5 min
Prep
20 min
Inactive
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Cook
45 min
Yield:
4 servings
Level:
Easy
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Ingredients

Dry meat rub:

  • 3 tablespoons paprika
  • 2 teaspoons garlic powder
  • 2 teaspoons seasoned salt
  • 2 teaspoons ground black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon ground red pepper flakes
  • 1 teaspoon ground oregano
  • 1 teaspoon dry mustard
  • 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1 package fresh pork tenderloin (2 loins)
  • Dry meat rub
  • 1/2 cup soy sauce
  • 1/2 cup white wine
  • 1/2 cup fresh orange juice
  • 1/4 cup ketchup
  • 3 tablespoons peeled and chopped fresh ginger
  • 4 to 5 peeled garlic cloves
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup mango jam, recipe follows
  • 1/4 cup Asian sweet chili sauce

Mango jam:

  • 1 cup chopped fresh sweet mango
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice

Sweet ginger rice:

Grilled pineapple:

  • 1 peeled and cored fresh pineapple
  • 1/4 cup spiced rum
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Directions

Mango Pork Tenderloin:

Combine all the dry rub ingredients in a small bowl.

Coat the loins with the dry rub, put them into a resealable plastic bag and refrigerate for 2 hours. Puree the soy sauce, white wine, orange juice, ketchup, ginger, garlic and sugar in a blender until smooth. Add the marinade to the tenderloins, and refrigerate for 4 to 6 hours.

Remove the tenderloins from the marinade and allow them to rest at room temperature for 30 minutes.

Mango jam:

Combine all the ingredients in a nonstick saucepan over medium heat and simmer hard, stirring often, until the mango breaks down and thickens to a jam.

Transfer the marinade to a small saucepan over medium heat. Add the mango jam and the sweet chili sauce, and bring to a hard simmer. Reduce the mixture by 1/2 the volume, stirring occasionally, as the sugars can settle and burn. Remove 1/2 of the marinade to a small bowl and set aside for service.

Sweet Ginger Rice:

Cook the rice according to package directions. Coat the inside of an 8 by 8-inch baking dish with cooking spray.

Transfer 2 cups of the warm cooked rice to a mixing bowl. Add the pickled ginger, fish sauce and chili garlic sauce and gently combine. Press the mixture into the baking dish, cover and refrigerate until cooled and set, about 1 hour.

(When the pork loins have been put on the grill) gently turn the set rice cake out onto a cutting board. Cut the cake corner to corner to make 4 triangles. Heat the 2 tablespoons of oil in a nonstick skillet over medium heat. Carefully add the 4 rice cakes. If a part of the cake breaks away, gently press it back into shape. Saute on the first side until the cakes have caramelized, about 15 minutes. Carefully turn the cakes over, add 1 tablespoon oil and 1 tablespoon butter. Saute the second side until you can hear the caramelized cakes gently scratching the bottom when the pan is jiggled, about 10 to 15 minutes.

Grilled Pineapple:

Cut the pineapple lengthwise into logs or wedges, then cut in half and put them into a large bowl. Combine the rum, sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl and pour it over the pineapple. Allow it to sit at room temperature for 1 hour.

When the tenderloins have been removed from the grill to rest, grill the pineapple on medium-high heat for a couple minutes per side turning and basting with the rum sauce to achieve caramelized grill marks.

Prepare a charcoal or gas grill with 1 side medium-high heat and 1 side medium-low heat. Sear the loins on all 4 sides on medium-high for 3 minutes per side. Move the loins to the medium-low heat side. Baste with the marinade, close grill and cook, basting every 5 minutes, until the loins reach medium-rare or to desired doneness.

Remove the loins to a cutting board and cover loosely with foil. Let rest for 15 minutes before carving on the diagonal into 1/4-inch medallions. Transfer the medallions to a serving platter and serve with sweet ginger rice, grilled pineapple and reserved marinade.

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  • on January 16, 2011

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    I didn't make the rice so I can't comment on that, but the pork tenderloin to me wasn't that great, especially considering the number of ingredients and effort required. I thought the combination of flavors would be interesting, but they end up getting muddled and impossible to distinguish. I don't see the point in putting a dry rub on the pork and then marinading it. The marinade washes off the rub so you lose that crust a dry rub usually creates, which I assume the overly sweet sauce is supposed to contrast with, because it ends up overpowering everything. I give it 3 stars because it wasn't nasty by any means and I ate it, but it was very one note and unremarkable. I will go back to Bobby Flay next time I make a pork tenderloin, he knows how it's done.

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  • on July 25, 2010

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    i JUST MADE THE PORK TENDERLOIN, ROASTED IT IN THE OVEN. WELL WORTH THE EFFORT.

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  • on May 03, 2010

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    This was so awesome I had to share with my friends and family. I made a few changes, though. I cooked it in a slow cooker during a weeknight - just added the dry rub and no liquid. I also used a pork loin instead of a tenderloin because I am feeding a family of 6. Then I didn't have the time to make mango jam so I used mango juice or nectar with the rest of the sauce ingredients and reduced it. Yum! The pork was so tender and juicy and the sauce was incredible. The loin was so big I had enough to feed my family, my grandmother and cousin and even gave some to my neighbor. This is a great new way for me to make pork and I am sharing this with all my friends and family.

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