This grilled thai pork tenderloin is how you make weeknight meal magic.
Take one look and tell me… how could you not love it?
Total
flavor
bomb.
We absolutely love to make a pork tenderloin for dinner over here. Not only is it juuuust different enough from chicken that it tastes like something special, new and outstandingly flavorful, but it’s also pretty simple to make and can be kept light too!
Here’s what’s so special about this particular pork tenderloin:
It’s not stuffed!
We all know that I love to stuff a pork tenderloin. Bourbon figs and gorgonzola? Yes please. Apples, goat cheese and squash? Always.
Caramelized onions and homemade cranberry chutney? Give me all the pork.
So yeah, I love to stuff pork tenderloin. It’s a pretty presentation and it tastes great. It’s also more high-maintenance. This pork tenderloin is marinated but not stuffed, making it the perfect weeknight meal. For tonight!
Just go grab your ingredients and make this tonight. You will not regret it.
The marinade is made from this peanut + coconut milk sauce that I’ve been raving about here on the blog for nearly a decade. It is SUCH a good sauce. You can use it for marinades or dressings, you can use it as a dipping sauce. I’ve actually made it before with pork chops too – and you guys love that recipe! This is another way to use it and one that I can’t get enough of.
Here, we divide it in half and marinate the tenderloin, then simmer the remaining sauce and use it as a drizzle on the pork and as a sauce for the soba noodles.
It’s so dang good.
Speaking of the soba noodles! I love to beef up these noodles with lots of fresh, crunchy ingredients. Carrots, red peppers, cucumbers, herbs and so on. A bunch of arugula microgreens too. And fresh lime and crunchy peanuts.
If you want to make this a lighter meal, you could skip the soba noodles completely and make this thai avocado salad or even these thai drunken zoodles (minus the chicken!). If you do that, you’ll have extra sauce, but it keeps great in the fridge and is something you could use throughout the week.
Winning at prep!
Sidebar: that totally looks like gravy. It’s not gravy, unless you want to call your peanut sauce gravy. I might.
I threw this pork tenderloin on the grill, which is even better for a weeknight (and a hot summer one, too!) because you don’t have to turn on the oven! It cooks quickly and evenly and gets tons of smoky flavor added. I mean, when I pulled this off the grill, I could not WAIT to eat it.
Even better: the leftovers of this? OMG. So good on a salad. Even good in a wrap. It’s not only a great way to amp up your dinner game, but it’s a fantastic way to make lunch magic happen too.
I definitely foresee this being a major dinner go-to forever and ever.
Grilled Thai Pork Tenderloin + Soba Noodle Salad
That plate can just be mine.
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