Preview: This Bacon-Wrapped Pork Tenderloin Stuffed with Cream Cheese is covered with Raspberry Chipotle Sauce. Spoil your family and friends with this beautiful and tasty entree.
Consider yourself warned about the come-hither aroma wafting from your oven as this recipe bakes. I promise you. Every man, woman, and child within sniffing distance of your kitchen will be begging for a sample.
With only 4 ingredients (pepper doesn’t count), you won’t even need a recipe after making this bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin the first time. The spicy sauce combined with the cream cheese filling will be a winner at your dinner table.
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Recipe Inspiration
A big thanks to my friend Scooter, of Scooter’s Spaghetti fame, who shared this recipe with me a few weeks ago. My husband went crazy for it.
I recently served this stuffed tenderloin to my sister who was in town from Alabama with her husband. They pronounced it a winner. I hope you and the people at your dinner table will enjoy it, too.
Why the cream cheese filling?
Consider the cream cheese a built-in condiment. The contrast between the mild and creamy cheese, the crispy bacon, and the sweet and spicy sauce will have your taste-buds begging for more.
The bacon combined with raspberry chipotle sauce and pork makes for an exquisite sweet, salty, smoky flavor.
Tips for making Bacon-Wrapped Stuffed Pork Tenderloin
#1
Cover your pan or baking dish with foil (include the sides).
You’ll thank me when it comes time to do the dishes.
#2
Don’t use thick-sliced bacon.
Thin bacon gets nice and crispy which is what you want. If you live near a Braum’s store, you might try their thin bacon. It cooks up beautifully. (It also microwaves nicely for a BLT.)
#3
In regard to the amount of raspberry chipotle sauce.
I didn’t specify an amount in the recipe. Go sparingly if you don’t like a lot of spicy heat. Be generous if you do. Serve with extra sauce on the side if you live in Texas. I have only tried Fischer and Wieser raspberry chipotle sauce because I’ve been told it’s the best.
#4
The recipe as written serves 3-4 carnivores.
It can be easily doubled, tripled, or more.
#5
Put your dinner over the top by serving homemade slider buns to make miniature sandwiches.
My Favorite Dinner Rolls or Sweet Potato Dinner Rolls are really good.
How to assemble stuff the pork tenderloin and wrap it with bacon:
(If you prefer, watch the video above.)
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Paula
p.s. Questions? Email me: paula at saladinajar.com.
Bacon-Wrapped Pork Tenderloin Stuffed with Cream Cheese Recipe
Pork tenderloin stuffed with cream cheese gets wrapped with bacon and bathed in Raspberry-Chipotle Sauce. The aroma in the house while this bakes is enough to make this recipe the grand champion of the year.
Ingredients
- 4 slices bacon (not thick sliced)
- 1 pork tenderloin, 1 to 1-1/2 pound
- 4 ounces cream cheese
- Half of a 15.75 ounce bottle of raspberry chipotle sauce
- Freshly ground pepper
Instructions
- Cover a small cookie sheet or shallow baking dish or pan with foil, preferably non-stick. Be sure foil goes up and over the sides with no seams. You will thank me when it comes time for clean-up.
- Lay 4 slices of bacon on a cookie sheet with space the width of bacon between each strip. See the picture above.
- Carefully trim any fat or silverskin from the tenderloin.
- Butterfly tenderloin down the middle, cutting about 3/4 of the way through the meat. Lay it out on top of the bacon.
- Place cream cheese down the middle. Cover with raspberry chipotle sauce.
- Fold tenderloin back up so that cream cheese is enveloped and wrap tenderloin with bacon. Tuck the ends under. Use extra bacon if necessary to cover tenderloin.
- Season with freshly ground pepper.
- Baste entire bacon-wrapped tenderloin with enough raspberry chipotle sauce to cover but not so much that it drips excessively onto the cookie sheet.
- Bake in 300˚ F oven for 2-3 hours. Begin checking at 2 or even before if your tenderloin is small and/or your bacon is really thin. Bacon should be well-cooked, crispy, and evenly browned all over.
- After removing from the oven, cover loosely with foil and allow to rest 5-10 minutes before slicing.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
4 servingsServing Size:
1 servingAmount Per Serving: Calories: 260Total Fat: 16gSaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 56mgSodium: 440mgCarbohydrates: 18gFiber: 8gSugar: 8gProtein: 13g
Michelle
Friday 1st of July 2016
You can find it in the international foods aisle at the grocery store. I like it because it's lower in sugars than most of the other brands. I was going to try and post a picture, but it won't let me. You can find it on Google.
Paula
Friday 1st of July 2016
I find it in the aisle with barbecue sauces at my local Krogers. Have seen it at Costco in the past but not recently.
Michelle
Thursday 26th of May 2016
This was an awesome recipe! Since hubby can't have raspberry sauce (fruit allergy), I used Hokan Chili sauce with Garlic. It was fantastic!!
Paula
Wednesday 8th of June 2016
I'm not familiar with that sauce but think I need to find some. Thanks for writing.
Danny
Sunday 27th of December 2015
Thank u for this great recipe we made it for Christmas eve and we absolutely loved it I posted on Instagram and I had so many people asked me about it at my church and even after for days people text me and ask me how to do it I give u all the credit try so much it was great
Shawna
Saturday 12th of September 2015
I found several brands of raspberry Chipotle sauce at Market street and I also tried Barbaras suggestion of adding Chipotle sauce to red raspberry preserves, both excellent! Thank you for this awesome recipe, sounds fancy but super easy!
Paula
Sunday 13th of September 2015
Good to know, Shawna.
Kyle
Monday 6th of April 2015
I sure enjoyed eating this for Easter. Yum!