Best Apple Maple Brined Pork Tenderloin Recipes

MAPLE APPLE PORK TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• Season pork tenderloin with spices in recipe #5408, wrap in plastic wrap, and marinate for 4 hours or overnight.
• Grill 15-20 minutes until done.
• In a small saucepan, spray non-stick coating spray and add diced apple.
• Cook over medium heat for 10 minutes.
• Add nuts and maple syrup (the real thing, not pancake syrup) and continue to cook for 3 to 4 minutes.
• Remove from heat and let stand until pork is done.
• Slice pork, place on serving plate, and spoon maple apple sauce on top.
• Serve with Uncle Ben's Long Grain & Wild Rice.

MAPLE-GLAZED PORK TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°. Mix seasonings; sprinkle over pork. In a large nonstick skillet, heat butter over medium heat; brown tenderloins on all sides. Transfer to a foil-lined 15x10x1-in. pan. Roast 10 minutes., Meanwhile, for glaze, in same skillet, mix syrup, vinegar and mustard; bring to a boil, stirring to loosen browned bits from pan. Cook and stir until slightly thickened, 1-2 minutes; remove from heat., Brush 1 tablespoon glaze over pork; continue roasting until a thermometer inserted in pork reads 145°, 7-10 minutes, brushing halfway through with remaining glaze. Let stand 5 minutes before slicing.

MAPLE-BRINED PORK LOIN

Steps:

• Mix water, salt, 1/3 cup maple syrup, garlic, ginger, rosemary, black pepper, and red pepper flakes in a large bowl. Place pork loin in brine mixture and refrigerate for 8 to 10 hours.
• Remove pork from brine, pat dry, and season all sides with salt and black pepper.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Heat vegetable oil in an oven-proof skillet over high heat. Cook pork, turning to brown each side, about 10 minutes total.
• Transfer skillet to the oven and roast until pork is browned, about 40 minutes.
• Mix 2 tablespoons maple syrup and Dijon mustard together in a small bowl.
• Remove pork roast from the oven and spread maple syrup mixture on all sides. Cook for an additional 15 minutes, until the pork is no longer pink in the center. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read 145 degrees F (63 degrees C).

FAVORITE BRINE FOR PORK/CIDER MAPLE

Steps:

• Stir the hot water and salt together until the salt is dissolved. Add the apple cider, syrup, sugar and pepper. Cool to below 45 degrees F. in the refrigerator.
• Trim any excess external fat from the meat. Submerge the pork in the brine in a large bowl or small crock; make sure the meat stays under the surface during curing by using a heavy plate to weight it down. Refrigerate the pork in the cure. The chops should take 4-6 hours in the brine; the tenderloin, 6-8 hours; and the loin, 1-2 days. (Bone-in pork can take a day longer in the brine because of the bone, which gives it a larger diameter.) If marinating for a day or longer, stir the brine daily and turn the pork occasionally.
• To test flavor of brined pork, cut a small piece off the meat, pat it dry and pan-fry it. If the meat is sufficiently flavorful, remove it from the brine, let it come to room temperature and grill. If not, leave it in the brine and test again later.
• I usually do a 4-6 lb pork loin and marinate 24 hours. I have cooked in oven, indirect heat on grill and rotisserie. They have all turned out fabulous! This makes a VERY moist piece of meat when brined this way.

APPLE-MAPLE GLAZED PORK TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• Sprinkle salt and pepper on all sides of tenderloins.
• In a small saucepan, combine syrup, jelly and garlic.
• Bring to a boil over high heat and boil gently until thickened and reduced to 1/2 cup, (about 4 to 5 minutes).
• Brush half of syrup mixture over tenderloins.
• Grill, covered over medium coals 10 minutes, turning once.
• Brush remaining syrup mixture over tenderloins.
• Continue to grill 5 to 10.
• minutes or until instant read thermometer inserted in center of meat registers.
• 160 degrees (tenderloins will be barely pink in center), turning once.
• Carve tenderloins crosswise into 1/4-inch thick slices.