Best Grilled Pork Tenderloin

Grilled Pork Tenderloin is super juicy and tender, coated in a delicious soy sauce based marinade. Ready in under one hour, this recipe will be a great addition to your summer grilling!

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Marinate 1 hour
Total Time 40 minutes

Servings 6 servings
Author Catalina Castravet and modified in Hruba Skala

Ingredients
  • 2 pork tenderloins

Marinade:
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • Zest of 1 lime
  • 1/2 cup canola oil
  • 1/3 cup soy sauce
  • 3 tablespoons rice vinegar

Honey Garlic Paste:
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 1/4 cup canola oil
  • 6 cloves garlic minced
  • Zest of 1 lime
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • 1 tablespoon dried oregano
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
  • 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

Green Sauce:
  • 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil maybe even less than 1/4 cup
  • 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • 1 teaspoon lime zest
  • 1/3 cup parsley finely chopped
  • 1/3 cup green onions finely chopped
  • 4 cloves garlic minced
  • 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
  • Kosher salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • Added soy sauce and a little more red wine vinegar

Instructions
  1. In a medium bowl combine all the marinade ingredients, pierce the pork with a fork all over the surface and add it to the bowl. Cover and marinate for 2-3 hours or 24 hours.
  2. In another medium bowl combine all the Paste ingredients, when ready to grill the pork. Stir until smooth.
  3. Remove pork tenderloin from marinade, pat dry and spread the paste generously over it.
  4. Heat grill or grill pan to medium-high heat. Grill pork for about 20 minutes, turning occasionally with tongs until charred and a thermometer inserted into the thickest part reads 145 degrees F. For larger tenderloins, cook longer until desired internal temperature is reached.

  Green Sauce:
  1. In a medium bowl, stir together all ingredients and season with salt and pepper.
  2. Let the pork rest 10 minutes, then slice and serve with the sauce.

Served on 7/28/2019 with mashed potatoes, peas with mushrooms. The Green Sauce really complements the pork. Cooked on the cast iron grill plate, on which it made a spectacular mess. Kept basting pork with the caramelizing paste... this is an excellent recipe!