With only 4 ingredients (pepper doesn’t count), you won’t even need a recipe after making Bacon-Wrapped Stuffed Pork Tenderloin with Raspberry Chipotle Sauce the first time. Furthermore, your guests are going to feel extra blessed when you bring this gorgeous entree to the table.
Wait! Forget about guests. I’ve made this recipe for just the two of us many times on a weeknight. Leftovers are a treat.
Consider yourself warned about the come-hither aroma wafting from your oven as this bakes. I promise you. Every man, woman, and child within whiffing distance of your kitchen will be begging for a sample. The bacon combined with raspberry chipotle sauce and pork makes for an exquisite sweet, salty, smoky flavor.
About the cream cheese stuffing:
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.
A big thanks to my friend Scooter, of Scooter’s Spaghetti fame, who shared this recipe with me a couple of weeks ago. My husband went crazy for it.
I recently served it to my sister who was in town from Alabama with her husband, and they also pronounced it a winner. I hope you and the people at your dinner table will enjoy it, too.
Tips For Making Bacon-Wrapped Stuffed Pork Tenderloin with Raspberry Chipotle Sauce
#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 Bacon-Wrapped Stuffed Pork Tenderloin with Raspberry Chipotle Sauce:
(If you prefer, watch the video above.)
If you make this and enjoy the recipe, it would help me and others if you would return to this post and leave a rating (on the recipe card itself underneath the picture). Although always appreciated, no comment is required. Thanks so much! Paula
Bacon-Wrapped Stuffed Pork Tenderloin with Raspberry Chipotle Sauce
Pork tenderloin gets stuffed with cream cheese, wrapped with bacon and bathed in Raspberry-Chipotle Sauce then baked in the oven.
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 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 cookie sheet with space the width of bacon between each strip. See picture above.
- Carefully trim any fat or silverskin from tenderloin.
- Butterfly tenderloin down the middle, cutting about 3/4 of the way through the meat. Lay it out on top of 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 degree 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 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 servings Serving Size: 1 servingAmount Per Serving:Calories: 260 Total Fat: 16g Saturated Fat: 8g Trans Fat: 0g Unsaturated Fat: 7g Cholesterol: 56mg Sodium: 440mg Carbohydrates: 18g Fiber: 8g Sugar: 8g Protein: 13g
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Michelle
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
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
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
I’m not familiar with that sauce but think I need to find some. Thanks for writing.
Gayle Cloyf
Once you have it, you will use on cream cheese, crackers, chicken, or just drink it! (Not really)
Paula
Agreed!
Danny
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
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
Good to know, Shawna.
Kyle
I sure enjoyed eating this for Easter. Yum!
Lisa
I’ve ordered this sauce from both their website and from amazon for almost 10 years! Costco got us hooked but then stopped carrying it in our neck of the woods. I tend to buy a years supply and then use it mostly on salmon. One sure fired way to get everyone eating the fish! Paula, your pork tenderloin is on my must cook list as soon as I pick up some cream cheese! Thank you for sharing all your great ideas!
Paula
Lisa,
I tried your suggestion to use it on salmon. OH MY GOODNESS! Loved it. Will be doing that from now on. Thanks so much for sharing.
Barbara
My hubby just came in for a taste test. I put a tablespoon each of mine and the Bronco Bob’s on a small plate and didn’t tell him which is which. He prefers mine, he says, and we’ve loved the Bronco Bob in the past. I do too; it has more body and more flavor. I first mixed 20 drops of the Chipotle Tabasco to a tablespoon of preserves, but did the math for a cup full, making it a bit less hot for those who aren’t accustomed to it. I’ll be making lots; this is outrageously delicious! I’d love for you to try it and test for yourself! It’s a lot less expensive to make your own. We’re seniors on a Social Security budget, so that’s important to us.
Barbara
I just tried this, and it is exceptional:
Add 3 teaspoons Chipotle Tabasco to a cup of red raspberry preserves. That would be a little light for us, and I’d add a few more drops of the Tabasco, but I think it is a very close approximation of the Bronco Bob’s version of raspberry chipotle sauce, which is extremely good. I really can’t tell much difference between mine and theirs, but my mixture is a bit thicker so it will cling well. We love a little heat and go through a full bottle of the Chipotle Tabasco every month. It’s much milder than the regular Tabasco, and we love Mexican/Tex Mex cuisine most. I hadn’t gotten around to putting any of the raspberry sauce on meats yet, so I’m looking forward to that, and probably tonight. Thank you!
Barbara
Thanks, Paula. Wow, and ouch, though – $17.99 is awfully expensive for just one bottle. I think I’ll do a bit of experimentation in the kitchen to see if I can make some myself. I don’t believe it would be too difficult, actually. I’ll let you know if I get some I like!
Paula
Barbara,
17.99 is for a 40-ounce bottle, unless I read it wrong. You will only need about 6-8 ounces per tenderloin. 40 ounces will go a long way. I have seen it at Costco if you have one close to you. Of course, you never know if you can find something at Costco from one week to the next.
Barbara
The only raspberry chipotle sauce I have ever seen was at World Market, and that’s 70 miles from where I live. It’s incredible on cream cheese and spread on crackers, but I’ve not cooked with it. What brand do you use? I can ask my local grocery stores to carry it if I have the name. I know we’d love this, and I’d really love to buy more but we don’t go to Daytona very often!
Paula
Barbara,
I put a link on the post where you can order Fischer and Wieser online. http://www.amazon.com/Fischer-Wieser-Razzpotle-Raspberry-Chipotle/dp/B000TTDDWE
Catherine Remkus
Just tried this and it is wonderful! Easy and fool-proof but tastes like you spent hours on it! I found the sauce at Kroger’s. And I used the reduced fat cream cheese. My new favorite recipe!
Paula
Hi Catherine,
Thanks for the testimonial. Scooter and I were wondering about using the reduced fat cream cheese. Good to know it works fine.
Stephanie
This looks incredible. My boyfriend has a business trip next week – this will be his homecoming meal!! Thank you. I hope I can find the sauce.
Paula
I bet you can find it. There’s always Amazon.
Nia
I made my sauce at home by mixing raspberry jam and chipotle sauce until i got a flavour i liked.
scooter
I have probably made this 10 times. It is always delicious but never this pretty. I will keep trying. I wrestle with the bacon to get it closed that neatly. Do you wrap each piece around twice? Do you think reduced fat cream cheese would work? Never tried it but wanted to. I will also try the Braums bacon.
Paula
Scooter,
Maybe your bacon is too thick? Braums is sliced fairly thin. Each piece comes up and over with enough to tuck under. I didn’t have any trouble.
Yes, I think the reduced fat cream cheese would work. Not sure about the taste but might not matter because there is so much other flavor going on in this delicious creation with the raspberry chipotle sauce and the bacon.
Erik s
Scooter Baking twine to wrap it
Paula
We enjoy a pork tenderloin every once in awhile. Done it in the oven and on the rotisserie but have yet to try it like this. Looks absolutely scrumptious!
Gaey
Wow! Looks and sounds amazing.
Betty
Oh my! This really looks good! I’m putting this on the menu for next weekend- can’t wait for that “come hither” aroma. 🙂 Did you get that Texas snow? Keep warm!