Slow Cooker Pork Tenderloin with Soy Honey Garlic Sauce

Prepare this eight-serving pork tenderloin dish with little work by cooking and portioning the pork with soy, honey, and garlic sauce in advance. Slicing, sauce drizzle, and parsley garnish tasks can be done just before serving. The low, slow cooking makes the pork tender enough to eat with a fork.

The sauce contains chicken broth, soy sauce, honey or brown sugar, garlic, onion powder, and balsamic vinegar, if using. The sauce surrounds the chicken tenderloin while it cooks in a slow cooker. Other ingredients added to chicken tenderloin include thyme or rosemary, salt, and pepper. You can pan-fry the chicken tenderloin before slow cooking, if desired. To thicken the sauce in the slow cooker, mix cornstarch with water. Advantages of the sauce include sweet, salty, and tangy flavors in each serving.

After 6-8 hours on low or 3-4 hours on high heat, pork pieces will be fork-tender, which means they will fall apart easily. Loosely tent the cooked pork with foil while it rests before slicing. Pork juices will thicken if the pork is cooked on high heat for 10-15 minutes after the starch slurry is added. Common mistakes include removing pork from the slow cooker too early. Look for fork tenderness as well as other signs of doneness.

Serve cut pork with mashed potatoes, roasted vegetables, steamed vegetables, salads, bread, grits with cream sauce, collard greens recipes, and other dishes. Set aside some sauce to serve with individual servings of cut pork to use in other recipes, including sliders, tacos, wraps, bowls, scrambled eggs, breakfast hash, soups, and stews. You can use cut pork in many recipes.