Yield
6-8 servings
Prep time
20 minutes
Cooking time
30 minutes
Difficulty
Easy
An easy and delicious meal that can be eaten as a dinner or a picnic lunch. Personally I cannot eat pork so I intend to try this with a steak to see how
PrintIngredients
- 2 Tsp Olive Oil
- 2 Sweet Potatoes – cubed- leave the skin on
- 1lb Pork Tenderloin
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- 1 cup quinoa
- Flavored vinegar of your choice (I like Orange Blossom)
- 2 Avocados
Directions
- Preheat oven – 425F
- Line flat baking pan w/ foil (you’ll thank me for this step later) and brush with oil.
- Toss sweet potatoes in bowl with olive oil, salt and pepper.
- Spread out in pan but leave room in center for pork.
- Pat tenderloin dry and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Place tenderloin in center of pan, Should be surrounded by ring of sweet potato cubes.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- While baking cook the quinoa according to package instructions.
- Open oven, stir sweet potatoes and spread out again around pork.
Bake another 15 minutes and check your pork – internal temp. should be 145°F. - Once done, remove from oven and let pork rest for a few minutes.
- Layer serving bowl with about 1/2 cup cooked quinoa. Sprinkle with flavored vinegar.
- Chop pork and and add to bowl with sweet potato cubes.
- Dice avocado (about 1/2 per serving) and serve on top.
Submitted by Dawn Bardon