Hermit pork tenderloin with apples

Preparation

Preparation steps

The first 20 minutes are used to chop the vegetables for the stuffing and side dishes, and to prepare the Flemish cabbage recipe.

While the pork is cooking, start cooking the Flemish cabbage recipe and sauce.

Farce

1. Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F).
2. Finely chop the garlic clove, chop the onion and mince the spinach.
3. Heat 5 ml olive oil in a frying pan over medium-high heat and sweat the onion. Add the garlic and cook for 2 minutes, then add the spinach and sweat.
4. Deglaze with the cider, pour into a bowl and chill in the fridge.
5. Chop walnuts and cheese coarsely and set aside.
6. Peel, core and coarsely dice the apples. Drizzle with lemon juice and set aside.
7. Using a knife, open the pork tenderloin in a wallet shape.
8. Remove stuffing from refrigerator. Add walnuts, cranberries, cheese and apples. Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
9. Stuff the pork tenderloin with the stuffing.
10. Close with string. Season with salt and pepper.
11. In a skillet, sear pork tenderloin in 5 ml olive oil for 2 minutes on each side. Brush with Dijon mustard and place the onion in the bottom of the pan with the pork tenderloin.
12. Bake in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes until pink.
13. When pork tenderloin is ready, remove from oven, wrap in aluminum foil and let rest for 5 minutes.

Preparing vegetable side dishes

1. Cut mushrooms into quarters and peppers into macedoine.
2. Heat a frying pan with a drizzle of olive oil.
3. Sauté vegetables.
4. Season with salt and pepper.

Sauce

1. Heat a frying pan with the olive oil.
2. Add the remaining onion and pork mixture and sweat.
3. Deglaze with white seed cider. Reduce by half.
4. Moisten with 500 ml veal stock.
5. Add the sprig of thyme and reduce.
6. Strain through a sieve.
7. Return to the heat and add the cream.

Flemish cabbage

1. Thinly slice the red cabbage.
2. Heat the olive oil in a saucepan.
3. Add onion and garlic, sweat and sweeten with brown sugar.
4. Cook until caramel begins to form.
5. Moisten with apple cider vinegar.
6. Add cabbage and mix well. Season with salt and pepper. Cover and simmer over low heat for about 30 minutes.
7. After the cabbage has cooked for 30 minutes, add the diced apples and cook for about 10 minutes.
8. Adjust seasoning if necessary.