Slow Cooked Chinese Style Pork Tenderloin

Slimming Eats Recipe

Serves 5

Extra Easy – 3 syns per serving

Original – 3 syns per serving (without rice)

I decided to dig out my slow cooker, as it was put away in it’s box in the garage, not getting very much use. My daughter has been taking up a lot more of my time now she is on the move and so I find I have less time to spend in the kitchen, but of course I still want to sit down to a yummy filling meal come dinner time and the slow cooker is perfect for that. I add in all my ingredients, turn it on and come dinner time it is all ready and the flavours you get in a slow cooked meal are mouth watering.

You can expect plenty more slow cooker recipes from me.

Ingredients

• 1kg pork tenderloin
• 1 large onion, sliced thinly
• 1 red pepper, sliced
• 1 orange pepper, sliced
• 2 tablespoons of light brown sugar (4.5 syns)
• 2 teaspoons of chinese five spice
• 1 teaspoons of black pepper
• 2 cloves of garlic crushed
• 2 teaspoons of grated ginger
• 1/4 cup (60ml) of passata
• 1/4 cup (60ml) of light soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons of dark soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons of hoi sin sauce (3.5 syns)
• 1 tablespoon of cornstarch (1.5 syns)
• 2 teaspoons of sesame oil (4 syns)

Method

Place onions and peppers in the bottom of your slow cooker.

Mix together the sugar, chinese five spice, black pepper, garlic and ginger and rub this all over your pork tenderloin.

Add this to the slow cooker, then mix together thoroughly the passata, soy sauce, hoi sin sauce, cornstarch and sesame oil and pour this into the slow cooker.

Turn you slow cooker onto high (6 hour setting) or you can cook this on a low (longer setting) if you prefer.

The result is a yummy melt in the mouth pork.

I served mine with stir fried vegetables and steamed rice.

 

The recipe above has been calculated for Slimming World, however for those of you following the Weight Watchers plan or another calorie controlled type diet. Below is the approx nutritional information:

 

Approx NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION
per serving (without rice)
Calories	295
Fat	8.3g
Saturated Fat	2.1g
Total Carbohydrate	15.5g
Dietary Fibre	1.6g
Sugars	7g
Protein	39.5g

 

Filed under: 2+ syns, Extra Easy, main course, Original, Pork, slow cooker