Quick and Easy Dinner #1: Pork Tenderloin with Grilled Sweet Potato

I don't know about you, but the last thing I want to do after a long day of work is to spend more than 15 minutes in the kitchen getting dinner ready. That's why I'm going to be posting "quick and easy" dinner recipes throughout May. In the spirit of the weather warming up, my first dinner recipe is all made on the grill and only takes 5-10 minutes of prep time: pork tenderloin and grilled sweet potato.



Ingredients
1 pork tenderloin (you can find this in a cylindrical package in the meat aisle)
1 peeled sweet potato
Olive oil
Italian seasoning
Lowry's seasoning salt
Black pepper 


Special ingredients: a grill (if you don't own a grill, no worries, you can also make this in the oven)


Directions

The meat on the grill, uncooked, with seasoning

1. Lightly coat the outside of the pork tenderloin with olive oil. Then sprinkle with Italian seasoning (you can really use whatever you want, basil, thyme, rosemary, whatever you have in your cabinet).
2. Place pork on grill over medium heat for 35-40 minutes or until cooked through. (Often times the meat package will contain directions about how to cook the meat, follow these if they are different. This will also include instructions about baking in the oven rather than the grill).

Seasoned sweet potato wedges before cooking

3. While the meat is cooking, cut the sweet potato into wedges and place on a piece of aluminum foil. Once all the wedges are cut, sprinkle about 1 Tbsp of olive oil over the wedges. Then season them with Lowry's and black pepper. (Again, you can season them with whatever you want, but I really like the taste of Lowry's and black pepper)

The wrapped up sweet potato wedges

4. Wrap up the sweet potato wedges in the aluminum foil and place on the grill over medium heat when there are 10 minutes left for the meat. (If you're making this in the oven, bake the wedges on a cookie sheet for 10-15 minutes at 400 degrees or until soft)


5. Once the meat is done, remove it from the grill and let rest for 5 minutes before slicing. It will look something like this:

 6. Periodically check on the sweet potato wedges. They should take 10-15 minutes to cook. You'll know they are done when you can easily stab them with a fork. When they are done, remove them from the grill.

7. Slice the meat and serve with sweet potato wedges and fruit or veggies. I had strawberries in my fridge, so I decided to have those.

The finished product. Enjoy!