Tenderloin rolls with apricot stuffing

Filling the tenderloin with apricot stuffing gives it an almost Christmas flavour.  The stuffing, incidentally, can be served more generally with pork or with a simple green salad.

Preparation Time: 20 Mins

Cooking Time: 1 Hr

Total Time: 25 Hrs

Ingredients

For 2 servings…

1                    Tenderloin of pork  - cut into 2 pieces     

                      Pepper  - freshly ground, black 

                      Salt          

1 slice             Tongue  - cut into 2  

                      Butter       

For the apricot stuffing

60 gms            Apricots  - dried - soaked for 24 hours, chopped     

30 gms            Almonds  - flaked     

                      Butter       

1 stick             Celery  - chopped     

60 gms            Raisins      

1 tbs               Parsley  - chopped    

For the garnish

                      Red cabbage  - shredded        

                      Vinegar  - wine        

½ tsp             Coriander seeds       

                      Pepper      

                      Salt          

Method

To make the apricot stuffing…

Fry the almonds in butter until mid-brown.  Combine the all the stuffing ingredients.

To prepare and cook the pork…

Flatten the pieces of tenderloin with a meat tenderiser, sprinkle each with a little pepper and salt and on each place a piece of tongue.  Spread this with an apricot stuffing.  Roll up gently and secure with string. 

Melt the butter and turn the rolls in this until they turn colour.  Then place them in a casserole.  Add the juices from the soaked apricots and cook in an oven preheated to 180°C for 45 minutes.

Remove the pork from the casserole and reduce the cooking liquor by half.

Remove the string, pour over a spoonful of the cooking liquor and serve with finely shredded red cabbage, poached for just 5 minutes in wine vinegar to which has been added a teaspoon of coriander seeds and seasoning.

Wine recommendations

A robust red or white wine.

Conventional

     Côtes du Rhône

Interesting

     Arbois blanc

     Côtes du Rhône Villages blanc

     Crozes Hermitage

     Saint Joseph