When Harris Teeter puts seasoned pork tenderloins on sale, that is a sign that it's time for another pork tenderloin done in the slow cooker!
This week we picked up a 1.7 lb tenderloin that was seasoned with southwestern spices for 50% off ($4.49) and also 2-16 oz. jars of Ortega salsa (one Extra Chunky Medium and the other Garden Vegetable Mild) that were on sale 2 for $3.00. Normally for this amount of meat, the recipes call for 1 jar of salsa, but we wanted to be sure that there was plenty of liquid, given that we were cooking in a 5 1/2 quart slow cooker instead of a 3 quart one.
After putting the meat in the slow cooker & pouring both jars of salsa over it, we chopped up some jalapenos and added the peppers along with 1/3 bag of frozen corn to the salsa, stirred & spread the mixture over the meat, and cooked on high for 3 hours. Then we shredded the pork with 2 forks, stirred the shredded meat with the bubbling salsa, and served in bowls, kinda like a pork stew. We heated up some leftover rice as a side and served the pork with low-carb wheat tortillas (wrapping up some of the pork stew in a tortilla was quite tasty!).
There's definitely enough left over for another full meal for 2, and possibly for one more serving on top of that. So for about $8.00 we have a meal to serve 5. Not too shabby...both economically and gastronomically!!
This week we picked up a 1.7 lb tenderloin that was seasoned with southwestern spices for 50% off ($4.49) and also 2-16 oz. jars of Ortega salsa (one Extra Chunky Medium and the other Garden Vegetable Mild) that were on sale 2 for $3.00. Normally for this amount of meat, the recipes call for 1 jar of salsa, but we wanted to be sure that there was plenty of liquid, given that we were cooking in a 5 1/2 quart slow cooker instead of a 3 quart one.
After putting the meat in the slow cooker & pouring both jars of salsa over it, we chopped up some jalapenos and added the peppers along with 1/3 bag of frozen corn to the salsa, stirred & spread the mixture over the meat, and cooked on high for 3 hours. Then we shredded the pork with 2 forks, stirred the shredded meat with the bubbling salsa, and served in bowls, kinda like a pork stew. We heated up some leftover rice as a side and served the pork with low-carb wheat tortillas (wrapping up some of the pork stew in a tortilla was quite tasty!).
There's definitely enough left over for another full meal for 2, and possibly for one more serving on top of that. So for about $8.00 we have a meal to serve 5. Not too shabby...both economically and gastronomically!!
No comments:
Post a Comment