Highland Foods Recipes
Beef Tenderloin
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Beef tenderloin wrapped in bacon and rolled in Maple Pepper® Brand Seasoning is one of our favorite recipes. Serve with vegetables (we prefer Brussel sprouts), wild rice and a garden salad for a simply delicious meal.
Ingredients
1 3-pound beef tenderloin, 4 cloves of garlic sliced, 1-2 tablespoon Maple Pepper® Brand Seasoning, 1 pound bacon, 2 tablespoons fresh rosemary, 1 sliced apple, 1/2 cup dried cranberries, 1 tablespoon balsamic vinaigrette, 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 tablespoon 100% pure maple syrup
Directions
Roll and rub the tenderloin in Maple Pepper®. Our recipe calls for 1-2 tablespoons but feel free to use more or less to your liking. Turn tenderloin right side up. Cut 1/4 inch deep slits across top of tenderloin. Place garlic slices in each cut, along with a shake of Maple Pepper®. Crush the fresh rosemary and spread over tenderloin. Wrap bacon slices around tenderloin. We like to weave the slices for a better fit. This helps to prevent bacon from slipping off the meat during the roasting process. Place tenderloin in roasting pan. In a small bowl, mix vinaigrette, olive oil and maple syrup. Place apple slices and cranberries in bowl and coat with mixture. Place cranberry and apple slice mixture on the bottom of the pan, forming a ring around the roast. Refrigerate for at least one hour. This allows the flavors of bacon, garlic, rosemary and Maple Pepper® to mingle with the tenderloin. Call it a dry marinade. The cranberry and apple mixture will flavor the basting juices.
Preheat oven to 450°F. Roast tenderloin for about 1 hour. Baste 3-4 times during the roasting process. Remove roasting pan from oven and cover with tinfoil for 10 minutes before serving. Just before serving, baste once more. Slice and serve. Once on dinner plate, we like to spread the meat with basting juices, apples and cranberries. We call this a tenderloin gravy.