One of the simplest appetizers you’ll ever cook and always a hit with guests is this one. Crackers, apple slices, crostini, and pretzel sticks are a few suggested accoutrements.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 45 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (16 ounce) pork tenderloin
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 cups Russian-style salad dressing
- ¼ teaspoon honey
- 1 (1 ounce) envelope dry onion soup mix
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Coat the pork tenderloin with flour, and brown in the hot skillet on all sides. Transfer to a casserole dish. In a medium bowl, mix together the salad dressing, honey and onion soup mix. Slather the tenderloin with this mixture.
- Cover the dish, and bake for 1 1/2 hours in the preheated oven. Pork should be fork tender.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 598 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 46 g |
| Cholesterol | 49 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 20 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 1810 mg |
| Sugars | 27 g |
| Fat | 38 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Delicious way to serve pork tenderloin. I did omit the step of browning the meat with the flour breading. I just browned in a skillet without breading and proceeded from there. The sauce of this is great. I though 1/4 tsp. of honey was kind of pointless. So, I didn’t measure and dirty a spoon, I just gave a healthy squeeze from the bottle. I’ve used this sauce a few times on chicken, but never on pork. I had stirred fried a bunch of fresh veggies and potato slices to go with the meat. The sauce from the meat was wonderful over the veggies. I will be making this one again.
So easy and so delicious! Full of flavor. Followed recipe exactly…family loved it!
So EASY!! Here are the things I did differently . . . 1. Used 2 boneless pork loin butterly chops (about 8 oz) — cut them in half so they made 4 servings. 2. Made these in a skillet so I heated the olive oil over medium heat and added the flour-dredged (seasoned with PEPPER ONLY — there’s a lot of salt in the soup mix) chops. Browned on both sides and reduced heat to low-medium. 3. Used Kraft Light Catalina dressing. 4. Added 1 clove of garlic, chopped. 5. Used 1/2-3/4 envelope dry onion mix. 6. Accidentally used an 1/8 c honey lol!! They were too sweet but not actually by a lot. Maybe eyeball half of an 1/8 c (1/16) of honey 7. Added sauce over browned pork chops. Flipped occasionally to make sure they got sauce on both sides. 8. Cooked until the chops were done!! Spooned some sauce on top of each one and served with a green salad. 9. There was about 1/2 c sauce leftover after I generously topped my 4 chops so you could probably make 5-6 2 oz pork chops.
Delicious. Simple. Tender. We loved this. Thanks for a great dinner. I’ll fix this again and again.
Well Mine isnt even cooked yet, but the sauce is so good, I could just go eat it with a spoon! I can think of a dozen other things the sauce would be good for. right now I wish I had french fries to dip in it. I used what honey I had which was prob only about 1/8 cup, but it is a really good local echinacea wildflower and added some great flavor! will definately use this recipe again.
Wow, I admit I didn’t think this would be that good, but it was recommended to me by a good and trusted friend! It tastes WAY better than you might think! Great combination of ingredients. I added garlic to the sauce.
This is an easy and very tasty dish that I’ve already made a couple of times. The only suggestion I would make is that I think there might have been a misprint with the amount of honey used. 1/4 teaspoon wouldn’t even add anything to the taste. I used 1/4 cup and if you like honey (as I do!), a scant 1/2 cup isn’t too much to use. I also browned the pork tenderloin in a frying pan and added the sauce mixture right into the pan, covered the pan and put it right into the oven – saves some dish washing! I’ll continue to make this recipe – thanks so much for sharing it!
An easy way to do this to recude the amount of dishes to wash is to sear the meat in a Le Crueset dutch oven (or similar) on the cooktop, and then you can cover and transfer that right to the oven. I cooked this at 350 degrees on convection roast for 1 hour and it was cooked through perfectly. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to find another recipe for the sauce as we did not like this at all. If you like Russian Dressing, then you will like this. Apparently, my family does not like Russian dressing in the least, and that is all you can taste in this dish. The honey was lost and the onion soup mix seemed to be as well. I gave it 2 stars for the method of cooking and the idea more than anything. the tast of this dish just didn’t suit my family’s palate.
Very very tasty. Just a few changes, will use a little less onion soup mix the next time. Just a touch salty. I also as the other reader cooked it a little less time and at 360 instead of 375. My sauce started to burn. All in all We loved it. Very easy and meat was as tender as butter!!
AWESOME! Though, I am not sure how close my finished product was to the intended recipe. I had to use what I had on hand in the pantry. I used light Catalina salad dressing, omitted the honey, and threw in about 2 T. of dijon mustard for a kick. I also only cooked it about an hour because I was afraid of it drying out. It was absolutely DELICIOUS and loved by the entire family. They all said this was a definite keeper and to “PLEASE make it again mom.” Thanks for the great idea…plus…it was EASY, EASY, EASY! A huge bonus for a mom of 4!
This was AWESOME!!! Who would have thought Russian dressing could add this much flavor? The sauce was wonderful and I used the leftovers for sandwiches. This is becoming a weekly request at my house and I’ll be trying variations with chicken soon. Thanks!
It was my turn to cook at the firehouse and this recipe was perfect… short prep time, easy directions and a hit with all the guys at the station house.
Excellent, tasty and pretty easy to make!! I used the Russian Salad dressing recipe from this site and it was great.