My food-blog-testers where very, very enthusiastic when I served this dish. It’s always a bit tricky to be excited about something you haven’t tasted yourself. But the soft sounds of happiness during dinner convinced me :). So I hope they convince you as well. Just try it out and let me know what you think of it! If it’s no good, the testers are of the trusted testing list!

30 minutes
Average
0 – 5 euro pp

Ingredients for 2 pers.:

  • 400 gr pork tenderloin
  • 1 mozzarella
  • 2 tomatoes
  • fresh basil
  • salt and pepper
  • olive oil
  • 1/2 lemon

How to prepare it:

Squeeze the juice from the lemon. Cut the tomatoes in quarters, remove the seeds and chop the meet into small blocks. Cut the mozzarella into thin slices. Chop the basil leaves. Put the tomato blocks with some salt, pepper, the lemon juice and a bit of olive oil in a bowl and stir well.

You can now prep the tenderloin. Put the meat on a plate. Use a sharp knife to make a long and deep cut into the meat. Make sure that you stay about 5 mm away from the sides.

Put some slices of mozzarella in the bottom part of the open tenderloin, fill the rest up with the tomato mixture and finish off with some basil leaves.  Use some cooking rope to close the tenderloin (Unfortunately mine was finished so I’ve used some wooden sticks to close the meet but actually a bit of rope is easier to bake and looks better.) Rub some salt and pepper on the outside of the tenderloin. Add some butter to the frying pan and put it back on the stove.

Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees.

Put the tenderloin into the frying pan once the butter is melted. Fry the tenderloin for about 5 minutes. Make sure that all sides are evenly baked.

Take the tenderloin of the stove and put it into a baking dish. Put the tenderloin into the heated oven for 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, you can take the tenderloin out of the oven, remove the rope or the sticks and cut the tenderloin in small slices.