Serve your guests with these flavorful Italian crostini made using pork tenderloins and French bread- perfect appetizers.
Pork Tenderloin Crostini
- Prep Time 50 min
- Total 2 hr 20 min
- Ingredients 9
- Servings 32
Ingredients
- 3 green onions
- 1 package (0.9 oz) béarnaise sauce mix
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup butter
- 2 small pork tenderloins (about 1/2 lb each)
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/4 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
- 32 thin slices baguette-style French bread
- 4 teaspoons crushed pink peppercorns or finely chopped red bell pepper
Instructions
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Step1Chop onions, separating white portion from green. Place white portion in small saucepan; reserve green portion. Add sauce mix and milk to saucepan; beat with wire whisk to combine. Add butter; cook over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to low; simmer 1 minute. Cover; refrigerate at least 2 hours or until thickened and cool.
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Step2Meanwhile, heat oven to 400°F. Place pork tenderloins in shallow roasting pan; rub surfaces with garlic salt and pepper. Bake at 25 to 30 minutes or until no longer pink in center and meat thermometer inserted in center registers 160°F. Cool 20 minutes or until cool enough to handle and slice.
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Step3Reduce oven temperature to 375°F. Place bread slices on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until crisp. Cool 10 minutes or until completely cooled.
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Step4To serve, stir reserved green portion of onions into sauce. Cut pork into 32 slices. Place 1 slice pork on each toasted bread slice, folding slice if necessary. Top each with 1 teaspoon sauce; reserve remainder for another use. Top each with 1/8 teaspoon crushed pink peppercorns.
Nutrition
60
Calories
2 1/2g
Total Fat
4g
Protein
5g
Total Carbohydrate
0g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Appetizer
- Calories
- 60
- Calories from Fat
- 20
- Total Fat
- 2 1/2g
- 4%
- Saturated Fat
- 1g
- 5%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 15mg
- 4%
- Sodium
- 100mg
- 4%
- Potassium
- 75mg
- 2%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 5g
- 2%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 0g
- Protein
- 4g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 1/2 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 0 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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