Sweet & Sour Cranberries & Pork Tenderloin
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Serves: 12+
 
I made a huge batch, you could probably divide the ingredients by ⅔rds for a meal to serve 4.
Ingredients
  • 1½ c cranberry sauce
  • 14 oz pineapple juice (apple would work too)
  • glugs of canola oil
  • 3 pork tenderloins, thinly sliced
  • 3 large onions, mined (in the food processor)
  • 6-9 cloves of garlic, minced as above
  • 1 small can of tomato paste
  • 3 large carrots, thinly sliced (food processor again)
  • 3 stalks of celery, thinly sliced as above
  • 1 red pepper, chopped
  • 1 yellow pepper, chopped
  • 1 orange pepper, chopped
  • ¾ brown sugar
  • ¾ c vegetable broth
  • ¾ c apple cider vinegar
  • 3 T soy sauce
  • 6 T cornstarch
  • 9 T cold water
Instructions
  1. Get out your biggest crockpot and turn onto low.
  2. In a wok, heat a glug of oil over high heat.
  3. Brown pork in batches.
  4. Using a slotted spoon, transfer to slow cooker.
  5. Add more oil as necessary and onion, garlic and tomato paste.
  6. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring regularly.
  7. Stir in pineapple juice, scraping up brown bits from the bottom of the pan.
  8. Pour over the pork.
  9. Stir in cranberry sauce, carrots, celery, peppers, brown sugar, broth, vinegar and soy sauce.
  10. Cover & cook on low for 6-8 hours.
  11. In a small bowl combine cornstarch and water.
  12. Stir into slow cooker.
  13. Cover and cook on high about 20 minutes.
  14. Serve with brown rice.
Recipe by Food Musings at http://foodmusings.ca/recipes/entrees/sweet-sour-cranberries-pork-tenderloin/