Makes 4 servings.
Approximate cooking time: 45 minutes
Ingredients
- 1-1/4 lb pork tenderloin
- 2 tsp Mrs. Dash Chicken Grilling Blend seasoning
- 1/2 tsp sea salt (optional)
- 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- 3/4 lb green beans, trimmed
- 1 Tbs olive oil, divided
- 1 small onion, finely diced
- 1-1/2 cups frozen blueberries, thawed
- 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp raw honey
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400° F.
- Rub pork with Mrs. Dash seasoning and 1/4 tsp each sea salt (optional) and black pepper. Place in a roasting pan and roast for 25 minutes (or until internal temperature reaches 155° F).
- When about 10 minutes of cooking time remains, remove pan from oven and spread green beans around pork. Working quickly, drizzle green beans with 1/2 Tbs olive oil. Stir and return pan to oven.
- Heat remaining 1/2 Tbs olive oil in a small saucepan over medium-high heat.
- Add onion, and cook for about 5 minutes. Add blueberries, vinegar, honey, thyme, remaining sea salt (optional) and black pepper.
- Continue to cook for an additional 5 minutes, or until thickened.
- Serve pork alongside green beans with sauce drizzled on top.
22 Comments
ESullins
So this recipe is stolen from Family Circle magazine, right? Why didn’t you attribute it to them? It’s delicious, except for the bitter aftertaste of plagiarism.
Esullins
Here’s the link to the recipe, identical except for sugar instead of honey. http://www.recipe.com/pork-tenderloin-with-blueberry-sauce/
Jason G.
Emily, thank you for pointing out a source for this recipe. At Paleo Plan, we get submissions from lots of people around the world, and each recipe isn’t always given attribution. However, US Copyright law *does not* cover recipes, therefor, there is no legal foul play here. We have updated the recipe to give attribution to the link you’ve shared, but as you can see, even recipe.com lists recipes from other sources not their own.
However, we have no intention of taking credit for other people’s work, and will always try and state the source of the original if we can. We’ve updated the recipe as such, thank you for your contribution.
ESullins
Thanks for adding the link! Legal or not, I think it’s important to recognize intellectual property. Thanks for the great recipes.
Barefoot Cassie
I made this and loved it! I have a great picture is there a way to submit pictures?
Neely
@Barefoot Cassie – That sounds wonderful – you can email it to me at neely@paleoplan.com. I’ll be sure to give credit where credit is due – thanks!
Jay
If it’s not legally protected, it’s not intellectual property.
Recipes like this are in the public domain so there’s nothing to recognize. That’s why Coke and KFC keep their recipes secret – once they’re out there, they belong to everyone.
beerninja
I just got done eating this. its sooooo good. My wife doesn’t normally eat all the meat on her plate and i get to eat the left overs (happily i might add) but not this time! great job i will be making this one more often!
Casey
Are you supposed to strain the “sauce” from the blueberries and onions, like the picture implies, or do you serve it all together, almost like a compote?
Karla
Made this tonight and the whole family loved it! I was a bit nervous about the sauce because it smelled so much like vinagear at first- but it turned out awesome. I did not strain the sauce and it was perfect with the onions and blueberry parts. I wonder what else I could serve this sauce with!
Linzi
hello – really want to make this but could I use anything instead of the apple code vinegar?
Neely
@Linzi – Balsamic vinegar, lemon juice or lime juice would probably work.
donnyriz
Love the site, love the recipes, love the shopping lists. It never ceases to amaze me though that someone always has to go out of their way to try and find something to fault. I think you guys are doing a GREAT job, and I just wish people would smile a little more and not be so condescending….its only food for crying out loud. Keep up the awesome work Paleo Plan!
Autumn
My husband and I are brand new to Paleo & stumbled upon your website by searching pork recipes. This was delicious! I do not like onions but tried it anyway & it was great. I also did not use thyme simply bc I did not have any. We had to cook the pork longer than 25 minutes. We will make this again!
MSoby
I just made this and it was delicious. I actually skipped the Mrs. Dash rub and made up my own rub of equal parts (1 tsp each) of Oregano, thyme, coriander, cumin, and garlic powder with a dash of coarse black pepper and sea salt. Came out great and the rest of my family is now looking at paleo in a new light.
Rob
This turned out well, but I think I will use something else besides the vinegar next time, it made it taste bitter.
To answer someone else’s question, I left the berries in but ended up mashing them to make it more of a sauce. It definitely didn’t look like the photo.
Tina
This was great! I just left the blueberries whole, thought it tasted great! There was no bitterness at all. I had lots of extra sauce, though.
starpotion
I made pork ribs instead of tenderloin, using Alton Brown’s method (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/who-loves-ya-baby-back-recipe/index.html) and the braising liquid for the base of the blueberry sauce above, adding the blueberries, caramelized onions, and thyme, plus a little liquid smoke, ketchup, and cayenne. I used my immersion blender to get the sauce smooth. So good, I could have jarred and sold it!
Barefoot Cassie
I took the picture above…I only strained the blueberries out because my husband has issues with texture and this was the only way I could get him to eat the dish. If I was making this for myself I would not have bothered.
LarkS
Nice picture, Cassie!
abaashley
Very yummy! Next time I make it I am going to use a little less vinegar and less blueberries. There was a lot of left over sauce, and the vinegar taste was a little too strong for my kids.
slongtin
Wow, this recipe is great! I agree with others that there’s more sauce than is probably needed. I did use my immersion blender to smooth out the sauce a little because I don’t love whole fruit with meat. Everything tasted so great! I can’t wait to make this for my soon to be husband!