This recipe and sauce can easily be scaled up or down based on how much meat you have or how much extra sauce you like to have. You can also easily freeze a tenderloin with the marinade in a freezer bag and save it for later.
Course Dinner
Cuisine Asian
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 20 minutesminutes
Total Time 35 minutesminutes
Servings 8servings
Calories 207kcal
Author Kevin Long
Ingredients
Asian Marinade/Sauce
2/3cuppeanut butter
1/4cupsoy sauce
2TBSPchili garlic sauce
2tspred chili flakes
2tspblack pepper
1tspsea salt
2oranges(zested and juiced)
Pork Tenderloin
1poundpork tenderloin
Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Marinate
Mix the first 8 ingredients together in a mixing bowl until it incorporates into a sauce (about 2 1/2 cups)
Pierce the pork loins a few times with the point of a knife
Season the pork with salt and pepper
Pour one cup of the sauce over the pork loin, coating all sides (reserve the remaining sauce to serve over the finished dish)
Let the pork marinate for an hour, covered in the refrigerator
Broil
Preheat your oven broiler (approx 500 degrees)
Place tenderloins on a broiler pan and place on the bottom rack
Broil until the internal temperature of the loin is 145 degrees Checking and turning the loin every 5 minutes (a small loin took about 10 minutes to cook a medium/large took about 15 minutes)
Move to a middle or top rack for to crisp the outside if desired
At 145 degrees, remove from the oven and cover with foil and let rest 10 minutes
Slice the loin and serve with reserved peanut sauce
Notes
If you don't like spicy, you can remove the red chili flakes.