Chinese Pork With Noodles

Ed&Theresa's Note:

Pork tenderloin with the added flavor of Chinese 5 Spice Powder. Your kitchen will smell wonderful and your meal will taste great. Great crock pot meal.

• Total Time: 5 hrs
• Prep Time: 30 mins
• Cook Time: 4 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 2 carrots (peeled and sliced)
• 2 celery ribs (chopped)
• 1 leek (split,wash and chopped- white and light green part)
• 10 ounces mild Rotel Tomatoes
• 14 ½ ounces plain diced tomatoes
• 4 ounces button mushrooms
• 2 lbs pork tenderloins (slice into 1 inch slices)
• 1 cup red wine
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon Chinese five spice powder
• salt and pepper
• 16 ounces egg noodles

Directions:

1. Add carrots,celery,leek,rotel tomatoes,diced tomatoes,mushrooms,pork tenderloin,red wine,worcestershire sauce and chinese five spice powder to crock pot.
2. Stir.
3. Cook on high for 4 hours or until pork tenderloin is tender, on low setting appox 6-7 hours.
4. Cook egg noodles according to package directions.
5. Serve pork and vegetables over egg noodles.

Reviews

[LARavenscroft]

While this smelled wonderful while it ws cooking, we really didn't care for it. It was missing salt and adding it at the table seemed to help a little bit, but it still didn't change how we felt about it. There really wasn't much of a Chinese element other than the 5-spice powder which seemed to be a bit over-powering.

[**Tinkerbell**]

I was a bit concerned that the amount of 5-spice was going to be too much for my family's tastes. But as a rule in contest recipes I try to follow as closely as possible. We all agreed that we didn't recognize chinese flavor in this dish as the anise in the 5-spice completely overpowered the other ingredients. The meat was nice & tender & we may try this one again in the future but will exchange the 5-spice for some fresh garlic & other seasonings. Good luck! Made for Category Craze-E #1 - Crock Pot Challenge.