Pork Tenderloin Orange Brined Recipes

ORANGE PORK TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• Place pork slices in an ungreased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Combine butter, thyme and cayenne; spread over pork. Pour 3/4 cup orange juice over meat. Bake, uncovered, at 425° for 20-25 minutes or until meat is no longer pink, basting occasionally., Remove pork and keep warm. Pour pan drippings into a measuring cup; add enough remaining orange juice to measure 3/4 cup. Pour into a saucepan. Stir in flour and sugar until smooth. , Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Serve with pork.

ORANGE MARINATED PORK TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• Make the orange marinade by whisking together the orange juice, soy sauce, rosemary, and garlic. Pour over pork tenderloin and marinate for at least one hour, preferably overnight.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C). Drain pork, reserving the marinade, and place on a baking sheet. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Roast for about 20 minutes until internal temperature has reached 145 degrees F (63 degrees C).
• Meanwhile, strain the reserved marinade and bring it to a simmer in a small saucepan. Serve this as a sauce for the meat.

ORANGE-BRINED PORK LOIN

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine 1 cup water and orange rind; bring to a boil; remove from heat; pour into a large bowl; cool to room temperature.
• Add 2 cups water, 4 cups juice, salt, sugar, and ¼ cup soy sauce; stir until the salt and sugar dissolve.
• Pour salt mixture into a 2 gallon zip-lock plastic bag; add in ice and pork; seal.
• Refrigerate 24 hours, turning bag occasionally.
• Preheat oven to 450°.
• Combine marmalade, 2 tablespoons juice, and 1 tablespoon soy sauce; bring to a boil; cook 10 seconds or until marmalade melts; remove from heat.
• Remove pork from bag; discard brine.
• Pat pork dry with paper towels; place pork on roasting pan coated with cooking spray.
• Bake for 15 minutes; decrease temperature to 325°, bake 45 minutes.
• Brush marmalade mixture over pork; bake 5 minutes or until thermometer inserted into thickest portion reads 155°.
• Place pork on a platter; cover with foil; let stand 15 minutes.
• Garnish with orange slices and parsley.

SPICE-BRINED PORK ROAST WITH ORANGE-SOY GLAZE

Steps:

• Brine the pork: Combine the salt, sugar, ginger, garlic, star anise and chiles in a large pot with 4 cups water. Bring to a simmer, stirring occasionally to dissolve the sugar and salt. Remove from the heat and let cool completely. Squeeze the orange juice into the brine, then add the squeezed orange pieces and 2 cups cold water.
• Place the pork on a cutting board, fat cap-side down and make a few slits between the ribs with a sharp knife; transfer to a large pot or resealable plastic bag. Add the brine, plus up to 2 cups more water if needed to cover the pork. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
• Preheat the oven to 375˚ F. Remove the pork from the brine and pat very dry. Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Set a rack in a roasting pan and place the pork on the rack, fat-side up. Roast until a thermometer inserted into the center registers 115˚ F to 120˚ F, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and increase the temperature to 425˚ F.
• Meanwhile, make the glaze: Combine the orange juice, hoisin sauce, soy sauce and sugar in a medium nonstick skillet over medium heat. Simmer, stirring, until thickened, 5 to 8 minutes. Set aside about half of the glaze for serving.
• Brush some of the remaining glaze over the roast. Return to the oven and continue cooking, brushing with more glaze every 5 minutes, until the thermometer registers 135˚ F to 140˚ F, 15 to 25 more minutes. Transfer the pork to a cutting board and let rest 20 to 30 minutes before carving. Serve with the reserved glaze and any collected juices.

PORK TENDERLOIN - ORANGE BRINED

Steps:

• Combine 1 cup 'water and rind in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil; remove from heat. Pour into a large bowl; cool to room temperature. Add remaining 2 cups water, 4 cups juice, salt, sugar, and 1/4 cup soy sauce, stirring until salt and sugar dissolve. Pour salt mixture into a a-gallon zip-top plastic bag. Add ice and pork; seal. Refrigerate for 24 hours, turning bag occasionally. Combine marmalade, 2 tablespoons juice, and 1 tablespoon soy sauce in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil; cook 10 seconds or until marmalade melts. Remove from heat. Preheat oven to 450°. Remove pork from bag, and discard brine. Pat pork dry 'with paper towels. Place pork on a roasting pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 4500 for 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 3250 (do not remove pork from oven); bake an additional 45 minutes. Brush glaze evenly over pork; bake an additional 5 minutes or until thermometer inserted into thickest portion of pork registers 1550 (slightly pink). Place pork on a platter. Cover with foil; let stand 15 minutes. Garnish with orange slices and parsley sprigs, if desired.

ASIAN-GLAZED 'MELT-IN-YOUR-MOUTH' PORK TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• To make the brine, mix together the water, 1/2 cup brown sugar, salt, 2 tablespoons ginger, onion, lemon, 5 cloves of garlic, and 1/2 cup teriyaki sauce in a large container. Add the pork tenderloin, cover, and refrigerate for 2 to 8 hours.
• For the glaze, whisk together 1/2 cup teriyaki sauce, sweet and sour sauce, hoisin sauce, 4 cloves of garlic, 2 tablespoons ginger, brown sugar, and orange juice.
• Prepare an outdoor grill for high heat.
• Cook the pork tenderloin on the preheated grill until no longer pink in the center, 7 to 12 minutes per side. Remove the tenderloin from the grill and cover with foil; allow to rest for 10 minutes. To serve, brush with glaze, and cut into thin slices.

PORK TENDERLOIN WITH GARLIC-ORANGE VINAIGRETTE AND SAUTEED SPINACH

Steps:

• In a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon oil over medium; season pork with salt and pepper. Add pork to skillet, and cook, turning occasionally, until an instant-read thermometer inserted in thickest part registers 145 degrees, 20 to 25 minutes (reduce heat if pork browns too quickly). Transfer pork to a plate, and cover loosely with aluminum foil; let rest 5 to 10 minutes (reserve skillet).
• Meanwhile, in a blender, combine orange juice, mustard, honey, garlic, and 2 tablespoons oil. Season with salt and pepper, and blend until smooth; set vinaigrette aside.
• In reserved skillet (if bottom of skillet is blackened, use a new one), heat remaining tablespoon oil over high. Add as much spinach as will fit; toss until wilted, adding more spinach as there is room, 3 to 5 minutes total. Drain off excess liquid, and season spinach with salt and pepper. Slice pork and drizzle with vinaigrette; serve with spinach.

ORANGE PORK TENDERLOIN MARINADE

Steps:

• Mix together and marinade at least 8 hours, preferably overnight.
• This is good for about 2 lbs. of pork tenderloins.

SLOW COOKER ORANGE GLAZED PORK TENDERLOIN RECIPE

Steps:

• SPRAY SLOW COOKER WITH NONSTICK COOKING SPRAY.
• IN A SMALL BOWL, MIX TOGETHER SALT, MINCED GARLIC, THYME, GINGER AND PEPPER. RUB SPICE MIXTURE ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE PORK TENDERLOIN AND PLACE IN SLOW COOKER.
• IN A SAUCEPAN OVER MEDIUM HEAT, COMBINE BROWN SUGAR, CORNSTARCH, ORANGE JUICE, WATER AND DIJON MUSTARD. COOK FOR A FEW MINUTE UNTIL GLAZE STARTS TO THICKEN.
• POUR GLAZE OVER PORK TENDERLOIN, COVER SLOW COOKER AND COOK ON LOW FOR 6 HOURS, OR UNTIL TENDER AND COOKED THROUGH.

ORANGE-GLAZED PORK LOIN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Combine the first 5 ingredients; rub over roast. Place fat side up on a rack in a shallow roasting pan. Bake, uncovered, for 1 hour. , Meanwhile, in a saucepan over medium heat, combine orange juice, brown sugar and mustard. In a small bowl, mix water and cornstarch until smooth. Add to orange juice mixture. Bring to a boil; cook and stir 2 minutes. Reserve 1 cup glaze for serving; brush half of remaining glaze over roast. , Bake until a thermometer reads 145°, 20-40 minutes longer, brushing occasionally with remaining glaze. Let stand 10 minutes before slicing. Reheat reserved glaze; serve with roast.

FIERY ORANGE-GLAZED PORK TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400° F. Sprinkle pork with seasoned salt and pepper. On rack in shallow pan, place pork. Insert ovenproof meat thermometer so tip is in thickest part of pork.
• Bake uncovered 18 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in small bowl, mix orange marmalade and pepper flakes. Reserve half the marmalade mixture. Brush or spoon remaining marmalade mixture over pork.
• Bake uncovered 15 to 20 minutes longer or until pork has slight blush of pink in center and meat thermometer inserted in center reads 160° F.
• Cut pork into 1/2-inch slices. Serve with reserved marmalade mixture.

PORK TENDERLOIN WITH ORANGE

Steps:

• Trim each tenderloin to remove excess fat. Cut each tenderloin into 4 equal rounds.
• With a mallet or meat pounder, pound each pork round to about 1/4 inch thick. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• In a skillet large enough to hold the pieces of pork in one layer, heat the oil over medium high heat. Saute pork for about 2 minutes on each side. Do not overcook. Remove from the pan and keep warm on a platter.
• In the same skillet, add the onions and cook until wilted. Drain the fat and add the port and wine. Bring to a boil. Stir and scrape to dissolve the brown particles that cling to the bottom of the pan. Add the chicken broth and the tomato paste. Stir to blend; reduce by half.
• Add the orange sections and zests, bring to a simmer and swirl in the butter. Add any juices that may have accumulated around the pork slices. Blend well. Pour the sauce over the pork and serve hot.