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Pork Medallions with Mustard-Caper Sauce Recipe

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Pork Medallions with Mustard-Caper Sauce

Dad clipped this recipe from Bon Appetit several years ago and finally got around to making it this evening. It was excellent, and very easy to prepare. The mustard, capers, shallots, broth, and cream make a wonderful sauce for the pork medallions. We served it with a creamy polenta.

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Pork Medallions with Mustard-Caper Sauce Recipe

Ingredients

1 lb pork tenderloin, cut crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick rounds
2 Tbsp butter
1/2 cup sliced shallots
2 cups low-salt chicken broth
4 Tbsp whipping cream
3 Tbsp drained capers
2 Tbps coarse-grained Dijon mustard

Method

1 Using meat mallet or rolling pin, flatten pork rounds slightly to an even 1/2-inch thickness (if the cuts aren't an even 1/2 inch). Sprinkle with salt and pepper.

2 Melt butter in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Add pork to skillet and sauté until brown and cooked through, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer pork to plate.

3 Add shallots to skillet and stir 1 minute. Add chicken broth and cream. Boil until sauce is thick enough to coat spoon, stirring up browned bits, 3-5 minutes. Mix in capers and mustard. Return pork to sauce. Simmer mixture until pork is heated through, about 1 minute. Season to taste with salt and pepper and serve.

Serves 4.

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Posted by Elise on Dec 15, 2005 and indexed Pork, Pork Tenderloin

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Comments

This sounds like something I would love. My Costco just started selling shallots in 5 pound sacks, and now I'm putting them in everything! I'm putting this recipe on my "must cook" bookmarks list. Unfortunately, it's getting to be very long list.

Posted by: Kalyn on December 15, 2005 5:47 AM

Do you think this would work equally well with pork chops, rather than tenderloin?

Posted by: Amity on December 15, 2005 6:00 AM

This looks great! My boyfriend had "created" something much like this a few weeks ago but the sauce ended up being very greasy; I think it was because he used butter in his recipe. The use of whipping cream sounds absolutly wonderful! I think I'll have to make this one tonight!

Posted by: Chris on December 15, 2005 6:33 AM

Wow that looks and sounds fabulous! I will definately try it, and soon. Thanks for the recipe.

Posted by: Andrea on December 15, 2005 7:07 AM

Great recipie. As far as Amity's question goes: I would pound the chops at the very least, and brine them if you have time. You should compensate for fast dry cooking to avoid them being to tough. Additionally, try cooking them initially to 'medium rare' and finishing them in the sauce to reheat to 'medium' temp.

Thanks again Elise,

Regards,
Cliff

Posted by: Cliff Hotchkiss on December 15, 2005 7:18 PM

I bet this would work wonderfully with a beef tendereloin as well, cooked exactly as you outlined in your recipe for the pork tenderloin.
It sounds absolutely delicious. I'll try them both and let you know how the beef turned out.
I also buy all of my meat and poultry at Costco. It is absolutely restaurant quality!!!!

Posted by: Dan on December 16, 2005 8:20 PM

I'm a sucker for capers and polenta, so this recipe worked great for me. It really is easy. It was also very easy to adjust the quantity, which I did because I like to have leftovers. (I used a 2 lb tenderloin.)To me, this was even better the next night.

A tip on the polenta recipe> I didn't use the sour cream. However, I used half water and half chicken broth to cook the polenta. That worked out great and gave it a lot of flavor.

Posted by: Roland [TypeKey Profile Page] on December 18, 2005 9:48 AM

My husband loved this meal...but I couldn't get the sauce to thicken, no matter what I did. It was delicious anyway! My husband is eating low-carb, and so I served this over steamed, mashed cauliflower, which he normally doesn't care for. The sauce made the cauliflower delicious, and he asked me to add this to our list of "regulars"!

Posted by: Carolie on June 22, 2006 3:57 AM

This was delicious. Very quick and easy. The taste is wonderful. I will be making this dish on a regular basis!

Posted by: Lisa on February 21, 2007 4:37 PM

I am new to this site, so this advice is probably too late to help Carolie, who had difficulty getting the sauce to thicken. I notice the recipe suggests adding the chicken broth and cream simultaneously - I think it works better if you add the chicken broth first and reduce it to about one cup, then add the heavy cream and reduce to the desired thickness.
It is a little quicker and concentrates the flavors of the food and chicken broth.

Posted by: John on January 16, 2008 8:28 AM

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