This recipe was posted by CrossFit athlete Graham Holmberg via his wife's blog Savy Mama. We haven't tried this particular recipe yet, but we have done a similar one with chicken we simply referred to as chicken roll-ups.
The photo shows a twine wrap around the pork to hold it and in our chicken recipe we used toothpicks. Either will obviously work, just don't forget to soak your toothpicks (skewers) in water to prevent them from burning, especially if you are going to use a grill.
Ingredients:
- 4 slices of bacon, cut into bit size pieces
- 1 1/2 cups of cremini mushrooms, sliced thinly
- salt and pepper
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1/2 cup freshly chopped parley
- 1-2 pork tenderloins (depending on size, you need a total of 2 pounds), trimmed
- Cooking twine (or toothpicks)
Directions:
Heat oven to 375. Cut bacon into small pieces and cook until crisp. Add the mushrooms and 1/2 tsp of salt, and pepper to taste; cook until the mushrooms are soft, about 4 minutes. Add the garlic and cook about 1 minute. Remove from the heat and stir in the parsley. Let cool.
Rinse the pork and pat dry. Butterfly the pork, being careful not to cut all the way through. Open the meat like a book so the tenderloin lies flat.
Cover the pork with plastic wrap; pound with the flat side of a meat mallet until about 1/2 inch thick, starting from the middle and working outward. Spread the mushroom mixture over the tenderloin. Starting with the long side, tightly roll up each side and secure them with cooking twine.
Place in a cooking dish and cook 35-40 minutes. Let cool before cutting. This will serve roughly 6.
*Savy Mama states: "This recipe is adapted from Food Network Magazine and calls for bread crumbs, so I omitted them to make this dish full on Paleo. The perfect crunch of juicy bacon and delicious soft mushrooms give more taste to this beautiful cut of meat."