Pan-Seared Pork Tenderloin With Tarragon

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By Bonnie S. Benwick

This tarragon-scented pork tenderloin makes a amazingly elegant enactment for a weeknight meal. You mightiness privation to stash it successful your cook-for-unexpected-company file. Pork tenderloin cooks reasonably fast, and adjacent faster erstwhile you whack it into bladed cutlets.

Serve with steamed broccolini and/or roasted potatoes.

Ingredients

One (1-pound) pork tenderloin, trimmed of immoderate disposable abdominous and quartered
Fine salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
1 ample shallot, minced
3 cloves garlic, minced oregon finely grated
3/4 cupful no-salt-added chickenhearted broth
1/4 cupful adust achromatic wine
1 tablespoonful caller citrus juice
1 spoon granulated sugar
4 stems caller tarragon, leaves picked and finely chopped, positive much for garnish

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
240
Fat
13 g
Saturated Fat
7 g
Carbohydrates
3 g
Sodium
130 mg
Cholesterol
95 mg
Protein
24 g
Sugar
2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "The New Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook: 150 Fresh Ideas for America’s Favorite Pan," by Ellen Brown (Sterling Epicure, 2014).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published July 8, 2014

Updated March 15, 2026