Peppered Bacon-Wrapped Pork Tenderloin

Submitted by sholman77

"From Southern Living."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 1⁄4 cup butter
• 3⁄4 lb mushroom, sliced
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1⁄4 cup pecans, toasted and chopped
• 2 (12 ounce) pork tenderloin
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper, ground
• 8 bacon, slices thick
• 1⁄4 cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon pepper, cracked

directions

1. Melt butter and saute mushrooms and onion until tender.
2. Stir in pecans and set aside.
3. Flatten pork to 1/4 thickness and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
4. Spread mushroom mixture on one side of thr pork and roll up like a jelly roll.
5. Repeat for second tenderloin.
6. Wrap 4 bacon slices around each rolled tenderloin and secure with wooden picks.
7. Place seam side down on a greased rack in a roasting pan.
8. Rub with the brown sugar and cracked pepper.
9. Bake uncovered at 450 for 15 minutes.
10. Reduce temp to 400 and back for 15 more minutes.