Slow-cooker pork medallions
Slow-cooker pork medallions are simmered for less than two hours, meaning they come out perfectly cooked.
Ingredients · Servings 6
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon Montreal steak seasoning
- 2 pork tenderloins (1 pound each)
- Cooked wild rice or mashed potatoes
Method · 1 h 50 min
- In a 5-quart slow cooker, mix the oil, soy sauce and steak seasoning.
- Add the pork tenderloins and turn them to coat them in the sauce. Cook the pork, covered, on low until a thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the tenderloin reads 145°F, 1 hour and 45 minutes to 2 hours and 15 minutes.
- Let the pork stand for 10 minutes before slicing it into medallions. Serve the sliced pork with its cooking juices over wild rice or mashed potatoes.
These slow-cooker pork medallions are a bit of an outlier among our wealth of slow-cooker recipes. While most are built around slow, low-heat cooking—designed to cook meats and vegetables to a meltingly soft texture in three to six or even eight hours—this one has a cooking time of around two hours. Pork medallion slow-cooker recipes are rare because tenderloins are already so, well, tender. Sure, the slow cooker is great for fixing tough cuts of meat. But the tenderloin doesn’t need fixing. You can pull it together before those after-school activities with the kids, and dinner will be ready when you get home.
Ingredients for Slow-Cooker Pork Medallions
- Olive oil: Unlike most slow-cooker recipes, this one includes no added liquids. The oil coats the pork and keeps it from sticking and drying in the slow cooker.
- Soy sauce: There’s just enough soy sauce in the recipe to give it a layer of savory umami flavors.
- Montreal steak seasoning: This popular spice mixture provides a balance of savory, meat-enhancing flavors.
- Pork tenderloin: Tenderloin is boneless and has no surface fat to trim away, so it’s a no-fuss meal option.
- Wild rice or mashed potatoes: Serve the finished pork medallions with wild rice for an elegant meal, or with mashed potatoes for comfort-food vibes.
