Dutch oven Spice-Rubbed Pork Tenderloin Recipe

This Spice-Rubbed Pork Tenderloin Recipe comes directly from my friends George and Carolyn Dumler and their fabulous Southwest Dutch oven Cookbook.

We just loved this recipe, it’s was spicy, tender and moist.

The salsa was a perfect complement to the Spice-Rubbed Pork Tenderloin wrapped in Corn Husks.

The leftovers make for some incredible tacos too!

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Southwest Dutch oven Cookbook is available on Amazon.com

 

Dutch oven Spice-Rubbed Pork Tenderloin Recipe
 
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Recipe type: Entree
Cuisine: Dutch oven cooking
Ingredients
  • FOR PORK TENDERLOIN
  • 3 pounds pork tenderloin, cut in serving size pieces
  • 2 teaspoons cumin seeds
  • 4 teaspoons whole coriander seed
  • 2 teaspoons black peppercorns
  • ¼ cup (4 tablespoons) chili powder
  • 4 teaspoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
  • 1/22 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • FOR SALSA
  • 1 cup (16 tablespoons) corn, roasted
  • ½ cup (8 tablespoons) tomato, diced
  • 1 jalapeno, seeded and finely chopped
  • ½ cup (8 tablespoons) red onion, finely chopped
  • 1 tablespoon cilantro, chopped
  • 1 large avocado, diced
  • 1 tablespoon lime juice
  • Salt, to taste
Instructions
  1. Soak the corn husk in water and set them aside.
  2. Roast cumin and coriander until fragrant and then grind them with black peppercorn to a fine powder.
  3. Mix this powder with sugar, salt, seasoned salt and cayenne pepper to make dry spice mix.
  4. Apply the rub on pork tenderloins.
  5. Wrap the tenderloins in husk and tie the husk well.
  6. Place the husk wrapped tenderloin in a 9 inch dutch oven. Place 9 coals on the bottom and 15 coals on top.
  7. Cook for 25 to 35 minutes or until the tenderloins reach an internal temperature of 150 F.
  8. Remove from the oven and set them aside.
  9. Mix together corn, onion, tomatoes, jalapeño, cilantro, avocado, salt and lime juice. Mix it all together.
  10. Open the husk, spoon salsa over the tenderloin and serve. Enjoy!

 

 

 

Video Transcript:
Presenter:
Hey, everyone, today we’re Dutch oven cooking, I’m making George and Carolyn Dumler’s spiced-rubbed pork loin with corn and avocado salsa on the Cooking Everything Outdoors show.
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Presenter:
So, quick story behind George and Carol Dumler, I met them at the World Championship Dutch Oven Cook-Offs a few years back and just this past year I had the great fortune of being able to assist them while they cooked at the World Championships.
Now, when I was done, they brought me their cookbook, which is the Southwest Dutch Oven cookbook and it’s autographed and I cherish this.
And I looked through this from cover to cover and there’s so many great recipes in there.
But I pulled out two that I thought were very unique and should just pack a ton of flavor for this recipe or for this cook with their recipes today.
Ingredients wise this couldn’t be simpler.
What you’re going to need is about 3 pounds of pork tenderloin and I’ve cut them in serving-sized portions.
You’ll also need some corn husks and you can buy these dry and I soak these so that they’re nice and pliable.
I’ve rinsed them off.
And we’re making a rub from scratch.
Now you’ll need 2 teaspoons of cumin seed.
4 teaspoons of whole coriander seeds.
And 2 teaspoons of black peppercorns.
What I did was I roasted the cumin and the coriander until they were aromatic and they started to turn a little bit brown and then I ground those up with the black peppercorns and that gives us the base of our rub.
You’ll need 1/4 cup of chili powder.
4 teaspoons of sugar.
1 teaspoon salt.
1 teaspoon seasoned salt.
1/2 a teaspoon of cayenne pepper.
And we just simply mix our dry ingredients up.
And that’s our dry rub.
And now we’re simply going to apply our rub to the pork tenderloin, be fairly generous on this.
We want a good coating of all the pieces.
So, now what we’re going to do is we’re going to wrap our pork tenderloin that we’ve just seasoned with this very aromatic rub and we’re going to wrap them in the corn husks.
So just take one of your pieces and you’re going to very simply wrap it in the corn husk.
And just like you would with a corn on the cob, where you’re going to make a handle out of the husk, we want to take one of our husks and tear a strip from it and then I want to very simply tie this off.
So here we go, we have them all wrapped, tied off, ready to go.
Now I’m going to put these in my 12 inch Camp Chef Dutch oven.
I’m going to be using about 9 coals on the bottom and roughly 15 coals on top or a perimeter around there.
These are going to cook for about 25 to 35 minutes until they reach 145 to 150 on the inside and I’ll check them when the time gets close.
We’ll just layer them in our Dutch oven.
Well, it’s been about 25 minutes and I’m going to check these out.
Oh my Gosh!
The smell is absolutely amazing.
Okay, 151 there, they’re ready to pull.
So let’s put our salsa together.
So, you’re going to need to pre-roast an ear of corn on the cob and that’s what I have right here.
I’m going to need a 1/2 a cup of diced tomato and then 1 jalapeno.
1/2 a cup of red onion.
You could cut this finely, if you’d like.
I like mine a little bit on the chunky side.
Little tablespoon plus of chopped cilantro.
1 large avocado, diced up.
And some salt.
Need some lime.
And we’re going to very carefully mix all this up.
Oh, it’s looking good.
Little bit of our salsa in there.
So this is George and Carolyn Dumler’s recipe and it smells incredible.
It’s spicy.
It looks absolutely incredibly tender.
Oh man.
Hmm, got a nice little edge of heat there, not a lot.
Hmm, so that’s it.
I’m going to go pop a beer or two.
And I will see you when I see you.

Dutch oven Spiced-Rubbed Pork Tenderloin