Quick and Easy Dinner ~ Tomato-Onion Pork Tenderloin

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Tomato-Onion Pork Tenderloin

I love the fact that this is the perfect recipe for a really busy day. It takes only a couple of minutes to throw together, then an hour to cook in the oven.  I would serve it with Bastmati Rice steamed in my rice cooker which is also quick and easy. Pork Tenderloin is such  a wonderful cut of meat, my one reminder would be to make sure you cut the silver tendons off the side of the tenderloin before you cook it. A great cold and rainy day meal, I call this perfect comfort food.

Ingredients:

Pork Tenderloin ( as much as you need to feed you family)

Large Can Tomato soup

1 packet French Onion Soup mix

2 tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce ( for a bit of spice)

Steamed Rice

Now:

Take the silver tendons off the pork

Pop the tenderloin in a casserole dish along with the soup, sauce and soup mix. Stir to mix.

Put the lid on and cook in the oven for 1 hour at 300F

When the meat is cooked, cut it into slices then put it back in the gravy and serve on steamed rice.

Enjoy!

This quick and easy meal is bound to be one you use over and over again, I know I do. Sometimes I prepare it all and pop it in the casserole dish, then refrigerate it ill I am ready to throw it in the oven. Another great way to have a few of these ready to cook at all times would be to pile all the ingredients into a large ziplock bag and pop it into the freezer. This way the soups work as a marinade and you can just pull this out of the freezer in the morning or the night before and cook it when you are ready. I also like to freeze steamed rice, that only takes a couple of minutes to heat up in the microwave so if you freeze it in smaller ziplock bags you are almost ready to eat.

Recently I tried those bags of rice that are ready meals from the supermarket. We like the egg fried rice very much, but we found the bags just too small for both of us and at well over $3 a bag, I thought they were just too expensive. I mean I can buy a 1kg bag of uncooked rice for less than that. The freezer is the way for us to not only save money and know whats actually in our food but its quick and easy too.