Pork Tenderloin Medaillons: Best Garlic Mushroom Sauce

Pork Tenderloin Medaillons – Médaillons in French but I could also call them pan fried pork medallions – in garlic mushroom sauce! Truly a quick and easy way to prepare a pork tenderloin dinner. Seared tender morsels of pork covered with sautéed mushroom medley and coated with a thick garlic sauce.  Over buttered noodles. Are we hungry yet?  I know I was last night so dinner had to be quick and easy.

A Quick & Easy Recipe

Most pork tenderloins are in the two to three pound range.  Much too big for the two of us so I reached (without really looking at the label) for what was a much smaller tenderloin.  Niman Ranch Cookbook: From Farm to Table with America’s Finest Meat It was pricey for .96 lbs  but I am now pleased to have found Niman Ranch® meats. Look for them.  They are worth every penny in all natural flavor and freshness. That is not to say that I have not used the larger tenderloins but those are perfect for breaded pork cutlets.

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I was looking for small médaillons of meat that could easily be pan fried in minutes.  The largest médaillons of the Niman tenderloin was no more than a couple inches across. This recipe is about as quick and easy as it gets.   Well… not as quick as opening a can or pushing the timed cook feature on the microwave but as recipes go, this one easily falls into the “30 Minute Meals” category.

Russian Stroganoff is a quick BEEF recipe with mushrooms and sautéed onions.

And that’s a good thing because there are occasions when time is of the essence and semi-homemade ingredients are perfect. I use what is within reach and love to improvise when it comes to cooking. Why make it difficult or fussy when those sitting at the table just want to eat and have few clues as to what goes into making dinner. Case in point just last night! “I had no clue it took that long to make short ribs!”  Need I say more? This recipe is perfect for those days when the magic wand needs a new battery or the kitchen needs a full time cook.

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Kitchen Tools Needed To Prepare This Recipe

 Knorr Homestyle Stock Concentrated Broth, Chicken 4.66 oz, 4 ct (Pack of 4)   When I want to sear or brown any piece of meat, I reach for my commercial grade hard anodized aluminum cookware. You could also use cast iron as long as you can set the heat to HIGH without any fear of warping the pan. To cut the meat in clean slices, use a very sharp chef’s knife with medium length blade. As for sharpness… you want the blade to cut through the meat like a knife through butter – effortlessly! Among my favorite kitchen gadgets are the small ladles I use for a variety of recipes but especially when preparing sauces.

 Winco LDC-2 Stainless Steel Ladle with Red Handle, 2-Ounce

Next to the range, I have a narrow six inch wide drawer full of spatulas, long blade knives, a long handled meat fork and ladles in several sizes. Not soup ladles but ladles in ounce measurements. And my little two ounce ladle came in very handy when making the garlic sauce for this recipe. There are two ways to make this sauce – a more careful and measured method involving a measuring cup and more mixing and more cleaning or the quick and easy method. That’s the one I used. It worked only because this is not the type of sauce that requires carefully measured ingredients and an easy touch. This is not a velouté or a roux.

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