Almond-Crusted Pork with Honey-Mustard Dipping Sauce

I have a large cookbook collection and a large collection of food related magazines. Many of them have corners of pages turned down and/or post-it flags bookmarking recipes that I hope to try some day. I was thumbing through the April, 2009 issue of Eating Well magazine over the weekend and found this recipe again. As luck would have it, I had all the ingredients! Well, at least I thought I did until I started making it and had to switch around the seasonings. This recipe was labeled both “Heart Healthy” and “Healthy Weight” and I thought it would be an ideal Sunday Dinner.

Unfortunately, Corky is quite picky and claims to “not like” pork tenderloin. I swear, he must be the only person on the planet to not like pork tenderloin? Come on, what’s not to like? Other than it being way easy to overcook and dry out, it is consistently a great piece of meat to grill or roast.

Almond-Crusted Pork with Honey-Mustard Dipping Sauce (adapted from Eating Well, April, 2009)

Pork

• 1 cup Whole Wheat Panko Breadcrumbs
• 1/2 cup sliced almonds
• 1 1/2 t garlic pepper blend
• 1 large egg white, beaten
• 1 pound pork tenderloin, trimmed and cut diagonally into 1/2 inch thick slices

Dipping Sauce

• 1/4 cup honey
• 2 T low sodium Tamari or Soy Sauce
• 2 T Dijon Mustard

1. Preheat oven to 425 F. Set a wire rack on a baking sheet and coat it with cooking spray.
2. Place bread crumbs, almonds and garlic pepper blend in a food processor and pulse until the almonds are coarsely chopped. Place the mixture in a shallow dish.
3. Place egg white in another shallow dish . Dip both sides of each pork slice in egg white, then evenly coat with the almond mixture. Place the pork on the prepared rack and spray with cooking spray. Turn over all slices and spray opposite side.
4. Bake the pork until golden brown and no longer pink in the center, 16 – 18 minutes.
5. While pork is baking, whisk honey, soy sauce and mustard in a small bowl. Serve the pork with the honey-mustard sauce on the side.

Almond and Bread Crumb Mixture

Pork slices, ready to go into the oven.

Makes 4 servings

Per Serving: 299 calories, 7 g fat (1 g sat, 4 g mono), 74 mg chol, 30 g carb, 29 g pro, 3 g fiber, 561 mg sodium, 562 mg potassium.