Garlic Marinated Pork Tenderloin
Serve this delicious garlic-marinated pork tenderloin. This tender and juicy pork is excellent for dinner any night of the week. You will marinate the pork tenderloin to help infuse all the flavors, and then oven-bake until tender.
One of our favorite meals is this garlic-marinated pork tenderloin. It’s pure comfort food—rich and hearty and absolutely perfect for a weeknight meal or a company dinner. This does not ever disappoint!
Are you craving more tasty dinner ideas? Try this slow-cooker firecracker chicken, easy slow-cooker cowboy beans, or creamy egg salad.
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❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- This is an easy recipe with minimal ingredients needed.
- Tender, juicy pork every single time.
- Great for your family or entertaining guests for an elegant dinner.
- The marinade helps keep the pork juicy so it won’t dry out when baking.
🛒Ingredients
You’ll only need a few simple ingredients to make this recipe, and they’re all in just a couple of spots at your local grocery store if they’re not in your kitchen already. We’ve listed them all here, but you can find their exact amounts in the recipe card at the end of the post.
- olive oil
- soy sauce
- red wine vinegar
- lemon
- Worcestershire sauce
- parsley
- dry mustard
- black pepper
- garlic
- pork tenderloin
🔪 How to Make Garlic Marinated Pork Tenderloin
Step 1: Make marinade
Start by making marinade. Add the ingredients into a plastic bag and then add pork. Massage and then marinate for 5-6 hours or all day.
Step 2: Bake
Preheat the oven and then place your pork in a pan, and bake as directed. Once the pork is done slice and serve. The marinade that is in the pan can be poured over the pork.
📝Variations
- Coconut Aminos or Tamari can used for a soy or gluten-free option.
- Orange juice or lime juice can replace the lemon juice.
- Change up the herbs in the recipe to alter the flavor if you would like.
- Apple cider vinegar can be swapped for red wine vinegar for a similar flavor.
- If you want to add a sweetness to the marinade add in a drizzle of honey, brown sugar or even maple syrup.
- To spice it up you can add in a splash of hot sauce, sriracha or even some red pepper flakes.
🥄 Equipment
- Ziploc Bag or Bowl
- Baking Dish
- Sharp Knife
💭 Tips
- It is important to marinade the pork so it locks in the flavors and helps to keep the pork moist during the baking process.
- Make sure your pork is fully covered in the marinade.
- Use a meat thermometer when checking the pork to make sure it is fully cooked.
- Allow the pork to rest for 10 minutes before slicing and serving.
⁉️ FAQ
Do you have questions about this recipe? Here are the answers to the most commonly asked questions.
Store your leftovers in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 4 days. Then you can freeze the pork for 3-4 months if you would like. Then thaw in the fridge overnight before heating and serving.
Loins are larger than tenderloins, so adjust the marinade to fit the amount of pork you are using. Then you will extend the cooking time to ensure the pork is fully cooked through.
You will find that you need to trim your pork to remove any of the silver skin or extra fat on the pork tenderloin. This will make it a more enjoyable texture.
OTHER PORK RECIPES YOU WILL LOVE:
- Honey Garlic Dijon Pork Tenderloin
- Slow Cooker Italian Pork Tenderloin
- Easy One Skillet Pork Chops with Gravy
- Smothered Pork Chops with Onion and Mushrooms
Ingredients
- 1 ⁄4 cups olive oil
- 1 ⁄3 cup soy sauce
- 1 ⁄4 cup red wine vinegar
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley finely chopped
- 1 tsp dry mustard
- 1 Tbsp fresh cracked black pepper
- 6 cloves garlic minced
- 1 ¼ lb pork tenderloin clean and trimmed
Instructions
- Combine all marinade ingredients and place the pork tenderloin in a plastic zip bag and marinate for at least 5-6 hours. I let it marinate all day.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Place in the oven and cook for 30-40 minutes or until the meat has reached 160 degrees. Let rest for at least 5 minutes before slicing.
- Pour marinade from pan over pork and serve 🙂
Could you do this recipe in a crock pot or instant pot?
I’m sure it can as almost every recipe can be. Just use the cooking time you would normally use for pork
This looks so good! What a great recipe to make for a weeknight or for guests!
Thanks we really love this recipe. Hope you do too if you make it
Thanks for sharing! Does it keep long?
We don’t usually have too much for leftovers but I would say 3 days or you can freeze the rest for when you need it next
Fantastic. Moist tender juicy flavorful. What more can one ask for!
Thank you so much Karen! We are so glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
I wonder can you cook it in a slow cooker with the marinade?
Yes you could do that. The slow cooker will cook the marinade just as well as it would if you make it in the oven
Do you cook to 160 or 145 like u said in description
It says cook to 140-145 let it sit for 10 minutes to reach 10 but you can just cook it to 10 or how you normally cook pork if you like
Do you cover while cooking?
No we don’t cover while cooking
Question: are you using the same sauce (marinade) that you had the raw pork in to pour over the pork when done? So when you’re baking the pork tenderloin, it’s in the marinade in a baking dish?
yes it’s the same sauce that cooks while the pork is cooking
loved it. so easy. a real keeper
Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂