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Easy and Tasty Pork Tenderloin Recipes
If you are looking for tasty pork tenderloin recipes to make in a hurry, look no further than this deliciously satisfying dish. If you have some leftover white long grain rice, it is even simpler to cook. It is often worth cooking extra rice because there are so many great rice recipes to try out. Cooked rice keeps in the refrigerator for a few days or you can freeze it. A lot of people make too much rice because they forget how it swells up and doubles in size when it cooks, so having leftover rice to use up is common.
The additional of a small amount of white wine to this dish, like with most wine recipes, just enhances the flavor. The onion, green peppers, and oriental flavors bring out the rich pork tenderloin taste and this will definitely be a meal your family requests time and time again. Asian flavors are great with pork and it is a really versatile meat. Pork is a white mean, rather than red meat, and its flavor means that it combines with light, delicate seasonings or strong, bold ones. Pork is an economical meat to buy and you can make all kinds of pork tenderloin recipes.
This rice stir-fry contains healthy vegetables as well as rice and Asian seasonings. A pinch of sugar adds a subtle sweetness, although this would not feature in Chinese recipes. A lot of Asian foods are sweetened to make them more palatable to westerners. Leave the sugar out if you prefer. This is quite a quick recipe and if you are using leftover rice instead of cooking fresh rice, you can make this pork tenderloin rice stir-fry in as little as ten minutes. Feel free to change the green bell pepper for red bell pepper or add chopped pineapple, carrot, broccoli, or anything else you want to use up.
Pork Tenderloin and Rice Stir Fry with Green Peppers and Onion
Ingredients -
4 oz pork tenderloin, cut in to ½ inch cubes
4 ½ teaspoons canola oil
¼ cup medium white wine
½ cup sliced water chestnuts
1 tablespoon chopped green onion
4 tablespoons chopped green peppers
1 cup white onion, cut into fine rings
1 tablespoon soy sauce
¼ teaspoon minced garlic
1 ½ cups cooked long grain rice
¼ teaspoon sugar
Preparation:
Sauté the pork in a large skillet in 2 teaspoons of the oil for 3 to 5 minutes, until it is no longer pink. Remove the pork and keep it warm. In the same skillet, heat the rest of the oil. Add the onions, water chestnuts, green peppers and garlic. Stir fry until the vegetables are still crisp but tender.
Mix together the soy sauce, wine and sugar. Stir this into the vegetable mixture. Cook for a couple of minutes before returning the pork to the pan. Stir in the rice and cook for 3 to 5 more minutes or until everything is heated through. Stir occasionally. When it is ready, serve immediately.
(Serves 4)
Wine Suggestion:
Which Wine to Serve with This Recipe
Pinot Gris and Chardonnay suit many pork tenderloin recipes and this one is no exception. The crisp flavor of either of these wines can stand up to the slight sweetness of the dish. Pinot Gris and Chardonnay wines should be served at 50ºF. If it is a warm evening, you might want to serve the wine straight from the refrigerator and let it warm up a little throughout the meal.
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A Picture of Pork Tenderloin and Rice Stir Fry with Green Peppers and Onion - this dish is made with pork tenderloin, rice, green peppers and onion and is a quick and easy stir-fry recipe. This quick and easy recipe will get rave reviews and will taste like you spent hours preparing it.
How to Serve Wine
Some people like to leave wine to breathe before pouring it and others feel exposure to air when the wine is in the glass does exactly the same job. Wine can be drunk from any vessel you have but crystal and glass are best because they do not impart any flavors to the wine and you can see the wine's color. Stemmed glasses are best, especially with sparkling wine and white wine, so the temperature of your hand does not heat the wine.
Red wine glasses are traditionally bigger than white wine glasses. Red wine is served in larger glasses because its rich aromas are given off better in this way. Sparkling wines are usually served in flutes, which stop them going flat too quickly. Dessert wines are served in small glasses because a portion of dessert wine is smaller than a portion of table wine.
If you are drinking an aged red wine or port, you might need to decant the wine by pouring it from the bottle into another vessel and leaving the sediment in the bottle. Most other wines do not contain sediment.
More About Wine Decanters
Wine decanters are attractive and they allow red wine to breathe before serving it. Red wines benefit from the oxidizing that decanting gives them and if you trickle the wine down the walls of your decanter, this takes the unpleasant edge off the wine and imparts a fuller flavor. Wine decanters might have a stoppered lid or a built-in rod to assist with the decanting. Whether you enjoy a glass of port late at night or you want to drink a glass of red wine with your pork tenderloin rice stir-fry, serving your wine from a decanter will add a touch of elegance to your meal.
Decanters tend to be tall and upright and lead crystal used to be a popular material to make them from before it was realized that the lead (which is toxic) would seep into the wine! Glass decanters are safer, for this reason, and they look just as nice. Drinking wine from lead crystal is not too bad but using your decanter to hold brandy, sherry or port for years means the lead can seep into the alcohol over a period of time. If you still want to invest in a lead crystal decanter, look for an attractive piece made by Waterford Crystal, Baccarat Crystal, or Steuben Crystal to ensure high quality.
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