Shelly's Recipe

PORK TENDERLOIN WITH BAKED APPLES

Category: Roasts/Tenderloins - Pork

5 lbs pork tenderloin
1 tsp salt
1/8 tsp garlic salt
1/8 tsp seasoning salt
Dash black pepper
1/2 teaspoon rosemary
1 cup water

Baked Apples
4 Granny Smith apples, sliced
1 cup brown sugar
4 tbsp butter, melted

Place pork in roasting pan. Make seasoning by mixing together salt, garlic salt, seasoning salt, pepper and rosemary. Lightly sprinkle seasoning mixture over pork. Cook in preheated oven at 350 for about 30 minutes or until brown, then add 1 cup water. Reduce heat to 225. Cover with foil and cook for another 1 1/2 hours. Pull out of oven and let sit about 10 minutes before slicing (I let mine sit covered in foil up to 30 minutes).

To make gravy, drain meat juices into pot. In a bowl, mix together 1/2 cup water and cornstarch until smooth. Slowly add to pork juices, stirring constantly over medium-low heat. To thicken gravy, add more cornstarch mixture until gravy reaches desired consistency. (The gravy was my one problem – I didn’t have enough pan juices to make enough gravy so I had to improvise and use some packaged gravy mix. Added to the pan juices it turned out quite good.)

To make baked apples, lay apple slices on greased sheet pan. Sprinkle with brown sugar first, then dribble with melted butter. Cook in preheated oven at 325 degrees for about 15 minutes or until brown.

Serve pork slices with baked apples and gravy. Makes 12 servings.