Lentil Salad with Pork Tenderloin

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  • 650 gram Pork Tenderloin
  • 60 gram Mango Chutney
  • 250 gram Brown Lentils (Spanish)
  • 3 gram Cayenne Pepper
  • 5 gram Parsley Leaves
  • 3 gram Smoked Paprika
  • 20 gram Dijon Mustard
  • 100 gram English Bacon
  • 250 gram Green (French) lentils
  • 100 gram Pickled Cucumbers (Jarred)
  • 30 gram Brown Cane Sugar
  • 15 gram Salt

Step-by-step method

At a glance

You'll be working with two parts here: a bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin that needs searing, glazing, and resting, alongside a hearty lentil salad with pickled cucumbers and crispy ham. The most time-consuming step is the meat preparation and cooking, while the lentils simmer in the background—just make sure to sear the bacon properly so it gets nice and crispy, and don't skip the 15-minute rest for the tenderloin so the juices stay locked in.

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    Prep the meat

    Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Using a sharp knife, trim any silverskin from the surface of the pork tenderloin. Rinse the meat and pat it thoroughly dry.

    Ingredients

    • 650 gram Pork Tenderloin
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    Season it

    Mix together sugar, salt, paprika and pepper. Rub this mixture all over the pork tenderloin. Wrap the seasoned tenderloin tightly in slices of streaky bacon. Secure with toothpicks so the bacon doesn't unravel.

    Ingredients

    • 30 gram Brown Cane Sugar
    • 10 gram Salt
    • 3 gram Cayenne Pepper
    • 100 gram English Bacon
    • 3 gram Smoked Paprika
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    Sear it

    Heat oil in a large skillet or cast-iron pot (the same one you'll roast the tenderloin in) and sear the bacon-wrapped tenderloin on all sides until nicely browned. The outside should lightly caramelize, not burn. This should take about eight minutes.

Lentil Salad with Pork Tenderloin

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Active time total 1 h 24 min
Prep 23 min Cook 1 h 1 min
Plus 15 min of resting (not counted in active time)

12 Ingredients

9 Steps

Hard Difficulty
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What's in it?

767 kcal

Calories

95 g

Carbohydrates

13 g

Fats

78 g

Proteins

The nutritional information is an estimate and may vary based on the specific ingredients used.

About this recipe

You'll fall in love with all kinds of lentil salads. Add herbs, vegetables, cheese, olives… and other tasty extras, and you'll end up with a slightly different dish every time. That means you can improvise and throw together whatever-you-have-on-hand salads, warm or cold. The base, though, is always at least two kinds of lentils. At our house we love the classic brown lentil, but also French green lentils and red lentils.

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