Browned Honey Butter Pork Tenderloin

       If you're looking to indulge yourself in a delicious dinner, this is the way to do it. Pork tenderloins rubbed with cajun spices, browned in honey butter, then baked to juicy perfection, soaking up all the sweetness. Oh, it's good.

        It's tender and juicy and moist and sweet and yummy and MmmMmmm...especially with a few spoonfuls of the remaining sauce. There isn't much that's better than a browned butter sauce (There are healthier things, but we'll ignore that. For now, you treat yourself!) and pork goes so well with something sweet. It's definitely one of my favorite pork tenderloins I've ever eaten and it was quite simple.

        I served it with some rosemary couscous and baked sweet potato fries; kind of an odd combination, but we make the best of it and work with what we have in this little pathetic excuse for a kitchen! That's what college cooking is all about :)

Browned Honey Butter Pork Tenderloin

Ingredients:

1 1/2 lbs pork tenderloin (2, 3/4-1 lb each)

1 tbsp cajun seasoning

1/4-1/2 tsp cayenne pepper (optional)

1 tsp pepper

4 tbsp butter

3 tbsp honey

1/3 cup warm water

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375.

Rub pork with pepper and cajun seasonings and set aside. Heat butter and honey in large pan (if you have oven proof pan use that and don't transfer pork and sauce to baking dish in later steps) over stove on medium heat until melted, and add pork. Brown for 5 minutes, then turn over and cook another 5 minutes on the other side. Place pork in baking dish and pour sauce from pan on top (or keep in same pan if it's oven proof). Bake in preheated oven for 15-20 minutes or until internal temp reaches 145 degrees. 

*Be careful not to let it over cook because pork easily becomes tough!

I made only very slight changes from the original recipe I found on Momma Hen's Kitchen.