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Braising Pork Tenderloin – This recipe for pork medallions (médaillons in French) in a rich mushroom sauce is the ultimate set it and forget it method to prepare pork tenderloin. It is both quick and easy when using your favorite slow cooker!
For this meal, the pork tenderloin is sliced into thick medallions and slow cooked to perfection.
The creamy sauce is made from a reduction of the chicken broth cooking liquid loaded with mushrooms and shallots.
Braising Pork Tenderloin Medallions In Mushroom Sauce
Why not try braising pork tenderloin for dinner instead of roasting, grilling it or preparing a stove top 30 minute meal?
This recipe is easy to prepare comfort food – tender chunks of pork tenderloin bathed in a mushroom sauce. Serve with garlic mashed potatoes and fresh string beans or asparagus.
It’s Sunday dinner in the making. The flavors in this recipe intensify overnight so be sure to prepare it a day ahead.
I double Sunday dinner recipes so that I can pack several freezer meals for Mom and a certain someone who loves to raid the fridge of any leftovers, but you can just as easily divide the recipe.
Braising Pork Tenderloin: An Easy Slow Cooker Recipe
I do not hesitate to take any standard recipe and turn it into a slow cooker version but this particular recipe can also be prepared in a Dutch oven. You will have to watch the pot every so often.
When preparing a slow-cooked meal, it is my personal preference to brown cuts of meat when called for in the original recipe. I follow the instructions as much as possible and improvise for certain steps.
There are recipes where it is worth the time spent to brown the meat. Even if you have to brown the meat in a separate pan. It means there is an extra cooking pan to clean, but it makes a world of difference in the flavor of the finished dish. The next best thing is a searing slow cooker with brown/sauté feature or, of course, an Instant Pot®!
Brown The Pork Tenderloin First!
The braised pork tenderloin is one such recipe. It makes a world of flavor difference in the braised duck legs recipe as well!
I do this often enough that my new slow cooker had to be one which featured a nonstick aluminum insert. I sauté my meats, onions, mushrooms and other ingredients on the stove top and then simply pick up the insert and place it in the slow cooker for the remainder of the cooking process.
If you cannot find the pork tenderloin already cut in medallions (as I was lucky enough to do), it is as simple as cutting the whole tenderloin into inch thick slices.
As I cut the meat, I place the medallions on a paper towel and top them another paper towel. Pat down to absorb as much moisture as possible. When the surface of the meat is very dry, it will brown in a minimum amount of oil and butter. Resist the urge to peek. It takes about 3 to 4 minutes for it to turn golden brown.
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Bon Appétit!
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