Gingered Tenderloin Salad

Name: Gingered Tenderloin Salad
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps dark sesame oil; 118 milliliters ginger preserves; 79 milliliters low-sodium soy sauce; 1 liters shredded napa cabbage (or other Chinese cabbage); 454 grams pork tenderloin; 237 milliliters thinly sliced sweet red pepper; 79 milliliters rice vinegar

Gingered Tenderloin Salad is If you have pepper, napa cabbage, soy sauce, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the ginger you could follow this main course with the Ginger Cake with Crystallized Ginger Frosting as a dessert.

Instructions

Combine first 4 ingredients in a small saucepan.

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Sauce Pan

Place over medium heat; bring to a boil, stirring constantly.

Remove from heat, and let cool completely.

Trim fat from tenderloin.

Place tenderloin in a large heavy-duty, zip-top plastic bag.

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Ziploc Bags

Pour half of soy sauce mixture over tenderloin; reserve remaining soy sauce mixture. Seal bag, and shake until tenderloin is well coated. Marinate in refrigerator at least 2 hours, turning bag occasionally.

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Soy Sauce

Shake

Remove tenderloin from marinade, reserving marinade. Insert meat thermometer into thickest part of tenderloin, if desired.

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Marinade

Meat

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Kitchen Thermometer

Place marinade in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil; remove from heat, and set aside. Coat grill rack with cooking spray; place on grill over medium-hot coals (350 to 400).

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Cooking Spray

Marinade

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Sauce Pan

Grill

Place tenderloin on rack; grill, covered, 20 minutes or until meat thermometer registers 160, turning and basting occasionally with reserved marinade.

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Marinade

Meat

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Kitchen Thermometer

Grill

Let tenderloin stand 10 minutes; slice diagonally across grain into thin slices.

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Grains

Combine cabbage and red pepper.

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Red Pepper

Cabbage

Pour remaining half of soy sauce mixture over cabbage mixture; toss lightly. Spoon cabbage mixture evenly onto individual salad plates. Arrange tenderloin slices over cabbage mixture.

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Soy Sauce

Cabbage