Chinese Pork Tenderloin
Need Head to the store and pick up sesame seeds, crystallized ginger, sugar, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the soy sauce you could follow this main course with the Panna Cotta with Strawberry-Vin Santo Sauce as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 30 minutes. This recipe is typical of Chinese cuisine.
Instructions
In a small bowl, combine the first seven ingredients.
Pour 1/3 cup into a large resealable plastic bag; add the pork. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight, turning several times. Cover and refrigerate remaining marinade for basting.
Drain and discard marinade.
Place pork on a greased rack in a foil-lined roasting pan.
Bake, uncovered, at 425° for 20-30 minutes or until a meat thermometer reads 160°, brushing occasionally with reserved marinade.
Let stand for 5-10 minutes before slicing.
Sprinkle with sesame seeds and serve with mustard and additional plum sauce if desired.
Recommended wine: Malbec, Pinot Noir, Sangiovese
Malbec, Pinot Noir, and Sangiovese are great choices for Pork Tenderloin. Pinot noir's light body is great for lean cuts, medium bodied sangiovese complement meaty sauces, stews, and other multi-ingredient dishes, and full-bodied tannic malbec pairs with fatty cuts and barbecue. You could try Bodegas Nieto Senetiner Malbec. Reviewers quite like it with a 4.2 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 12 dollars per bottle.
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Bodegas Nieto Senetiner Malbec
Wine defined and intense, deep red color and good intensity. Its small red fruit notes, plums and figs combine with aromas of vanilla and snuff delivered during aging in French oak. In the mouth it is with great personality, distinguished body, harmonious and sensual.