Herb Rubbed Roast Pork Tenderloin

🐖 Ingredient Spotlight: Pork Tenderloin

This recipe uses pork tenderloin which can be found in your grocery store located in the meat department.

Pork tenderloin is an incredibly versatile ingredient. It cooks quickly and can be prepared in a variety of ways.

Some of our favorite cooking methods for pork tenderloin include roasting, grilling, breading and frying, pan-searing (then transferring to the oven to roast and cook through), and sous vide cooking (then finishing it off by searing it in a hot skillet or on the grill).

Note that pork tenderloin is a different cut of meat than pork loin. You can read more about the difference between pork tenderloin and pork loin over on this post on allrecipes.

Pork tenderloin is most often sold in a package that has 2 pieces of pork tenderloin wrapped up together. Typically each piece of pork tenderloin weighs roughly 1 pound, so the packages are usually 2-ish pounds in total.

Depending on how you plan to use it, you may want to opt for one that’s been already marinated. Most grocery stores sell a variety of flavors of pre-marinated pork tenderloin.

Be sure that if you’re using pork tenderloin in a recipe like the one on this page you get one that’s not already in a marinade. (If you’re looking for a fantastic marinated pork tenderloin recipe, my balsamic marinated pork tenderloin has been a longtime favorite).

Personal temperature and texture preferences vary, but the FDA recommends cooking pork to at least 145°F.

Pork tenderloin is juicy and delicious when it’s still a little pink inside.

I know, that whole, “pork – the other white meat” campaign from the ’80s made it confusing to think of pork as something that is OK to serve at a variety of temperatures.

But much like steak, the flavor and texture are best when it’s not completely cooked through. It can help to think of pork more like beef than poultry.

Some of our favorite pork tenderloin recipes are:

• Coffee-Marinated Grilled Pork
• Breaded Pork Tenderloin with Lemon Caper Sauce
• Herb Rubbed Roast Pork Tenderloin
• Latin-Spiced Pork + Squash Skillet with Chili Lime Cherries
• Pan-roasted Pork Tenderloin with Balsamic Tomatoes
• Pan Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Fairy Tale Eggplant & Tomatoes
• Peanut Noodles with Roasted Pork Tenderloin + Honeyed Oranges
• Pork Tenderloin Sliders
• Pork Tenderloin with Pears and Shallots
• Roast Pork Tenderloin with Mustard Maple Sauce