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Artichoke & Tomato smothered pork tenderloin and Cilantro Lime Rice

Start the week with this flavorful & smoky, juicy pork tenderloin smothered with mouth-watering artichokes and tomatoes. All of this over rice, but not just any rice, super flavorful cilantro lime rice! Yes, you can eliminate the cilantro, but really it makes all the difference!
Course Main Course
Cuisine Mediterranean
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 2 people
Author Carrie Tyler

Ingredients

  • 1 lb Pork Tenderloin cook the roast but only use half in this recipe
  • 1 Tbls Ground Cumin
  • 1 Tbls Chili Powder
  • Salt & Pepper
  • 1 Tbls Olive Oil
  • 1 can Artichoke hearts or half of prepped
  • 2 Fresh Scallions ⅓ of prepped
  • 2 cloves Fresh Garlic half of prepped
  • 1 Tbls All Purpose Flour
  • 1 Tbls Butter
  • ¾ cup Chicken broth Beef or veggie broth will also work
  • 1 Large Tomato
  • 1 Cup Rice uncooked
  • 1 Tbls Cilantro
  • 1 Lime

Instructions

  1. Pre-Heat oven to 400 degrees
  2. Cook Rice according to package instructions (TIP: make more & reheat for another meal)

Make Pork tenderloin

  1. Season the pork with Cumin, Chili Powder, Salt, Pepper making sure to coat all sides evenly. Place on sheet pan and cook in oven for 30min. Make sure pork center is 145º. Turn off oven, cover with aluminum and keep pork in for another 10minutes.

Make Artichoke Sauce

  1. Heat a Medium size sauté pan with 1 Tbls. olive oil
  2. Dice the tomato
  3. Take half of the chopped artichokes, ⅓ of scallion, and garlic, salt & pepper and sauté in pan for 2 minutes, stirring continuously
  4. Add butter and sprinkle flour over everything. Mix to coat with flour.
  5. Pour broth over artichoke mixture and stir to thicken (save remaining broth for taco recipe). Add tomatoes, stir, then remove from heat, cover, set aside.

Finish Rice

  1. Zest lime and cut in half. Add the zest and juice from half the lime plus 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon pepper to the rice and mix.
  2. Sprinkle 1 Tbls cilantro over rice and mix again – add more or less (or none at all) depending on your preference

Plate: Place Rice on each dish in center, then top with 2 slices of pork, top with sauce, & sprinkle with cilantro