How To Make the Perfect Pork Tenderloin In an Instant Pot with Pineapple Jerk Sauce

I love, love my Instant Pot. I discovered yet another amazing way to use it – to make perfect pork tenderloin!

In fact, this recipe was the big time winner. My kids were raving about this recipe and I couldn’t believe how the pork just melted in everyone’s mouths. I am sure that much of this was due to the type of pork tenderloin as well as they type of cooking. Either way, my son even said “my mom’s cooking can’t be beat.”

That makes me feel amazing, especially since this recipe was very quick! Yes, it was in the Instant Pot and done in 50 minutes of cooking – and it only took me 10 minutes to get all of the ingredients into the Instant Pot for a total of 60 minutes, which would have taken a minimum of 6 hours on the slow-cooker.

That is an Instant Amazing Dinner!

Now, don’t fret if you don’t have an Instant Pot – you can make Pineapple Jerk Pork in an oven in 30 minutes – and just slice it with the sauce and serve over the veggies and rice. Or you can Crockpot it too for 6-8 hours on low, which will cause it to naturally shred.

What I used is very important to the flavor. I wanted a great pork tenderloin. What I like about Pork Tenderloin is that it is an affordable cut of meat.

I picked up mine from WinCo. I wanted an already marinating one – and for a “Jerk” sauce, you need black pepper and garlic.

That’s why my favorite is the Smithfield Garlic and Pepper Pork Tenderloin. I bought this at WinCo and the entire tenderloin was only $3.78. That is a very decent price for the meat for a family of 8. This is more than satisfying for all of us, especially when combined with the other ingredients in this shredded pork recipe.

Even better is that I used a $1.50 off coupon that is available on the WinCo site right now (currently through 10/15 and will be available off and on, so check it regularly).

That makes it only $2.28 per roast! An great price and deal for the meat in the meal. For us, I can easily make this last one, but in most cases, two dinners by shredding it and serving it over rice. Let me show you how!

As you can see, this pork has been marinating in its garlic and pepper marinade for a while. These spices are crucially important to an amazing, tender, shredded pork!

Next, you need some delicious ingredients:

• 1 Smithfield Marinated Roasted Garlic and Cracked Black Pepper Pork Tenderloin
• 1 bunch of green onions
• 1/4 cup of Sesame Oil
• 1/2 cup of rice vinegar (preferably with tenderloined garlic)
• 2 TBSP of ground allspice
• 1 TBSP cinnamon
• 1 Serrano Pepper
• 1 chunk of peeled ginger (or about 1/2 TBSP ground)
• 2 TBSP Soy Sauce (we actually use Bragg’s Liquid Aminos)
• 2 TBSP ketchup
• 1 20 oz can pineapple tidbits
• 2 bell peppers
• Rice of choice

How to make the Perfect Pork Tenderloin in an Instant Pot with the Pineapple Jerk Sauce:

• The first step is to make the sauce. To do this, you need to drain the juice from the pineapple tidbits and reserve 1/3 cup of the pineapple juice.

• Put the juice in the blender.
• Then add the bottom half of all of the green onions, vinegar, sesame oil, allspice, cinnamon, the Serrano pepper, ginger, soy sauce and ketchup into a blender.

• Blend until well blended – it needs to be completely liquid.

• Once blended, it’s time to prepare the pork tenderloin. To do this, cut the pork tenderloin in half and simply sear each exposed side of the pork for about 30-45 seconds in a pan that was heated with about a TBSP of olive oil. IMPORTANT: reserve the drippings from the pan searing. You will need these – so don’t wash your pot yet. 🙂

• Once all of the sides are seared, add them to the Instant Pot.

• Pour the sauce over the pork tenderloin halves.

• Put the lid on, close and lock in place.
• Set the Instant Pot on high pressure on the meat setting for 50 minutes.

• Let your tenderloin cook perfectly.
• Once there is about 5 minutes left, cut the peppers into strips and cut the remaining green onion tops into about 1″ strips.
• Add a bit more olive oil to the pan you seared in and using a spatula/spoon, scrape the drippings up from the bottom of the pan.

• Add your peppers and green onions. Sautée them in the drippings. Once they are on the al dente’ side, add the pineapple tidbits.

• By preparing the veggies this way, there is NO need to add any additional spices to the pan. They will be perfectly seasoned!
• Once the pork is cooked, it will probably still look like a tenderloin, but you can literally stick a fork in it and shred it in seconds and it will just fall apart!

• To serve: add a scoop of rice of choice, then top the rice with the sautéed veggies

• add some pork and then additional sauce.

• I also served this with caramelized acorn squash and kale salad!

Truly delicious.

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