Cocoa Ruby Pork Tenderloin – Based On A Truthful Story

My favorite candy growing upwardly was the chocolate covered cherry. I didn't accept them often, but when I did, it was e'er a exceptional treat. The agency that thin, crisp chocolate would suspension away to bring out the florescent ruby maraschino cherry suspended inwards the clear syrup was intoxicating.

I almost never consume them anymore; exclusively on the rare occasion my mother, Pauline, or mother-in-law, Peggy, endure on to accept some out, unremarkably closed to the holidays. One such occasion came on my recent trip dorsum to Clifton Springs, NY, together with equally I enjoyed the sweetness process a foreign idea popped into my brain. What most a savory dish that celebrated the same basic flavors?

I remembered seeing Alton Brown purpose cocoa inwards a rub for chicken, together with since I had a pork tenderloin sitting inwards the fridge, only a shelf away from a offend of dark cherry preserves, I figured, why not?

I actually loved how this came out, together with land it's manifestly an unsweetened version of chocolate beingness used, the plate definitely had some of the same culinary deoxyribonucleic acid equally my honey candied cherries. Anyway, that's the odd-but-true storey of how this recipe ended upwardly here, together with equally usual, I promise you lot hand it a endeavor together with say me what you lot think. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1-2 pork tenderloins

salt equally needed

2 teaspoons vegetable oil

For the rub:

2 tablespoons unsweetened nighttime cocoa powder

1 tablespoon ancho chili powder

1 teaspoon soil cumin

1 teaspoon freshly soil dark pepper

1/2 teaspoon soil chipotle

For the sauce:

1/3 loving cup cherry preserves

1/3 loving cup white vinegar

big pinch of oregano

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