Quick & Easy Herb & Lemon Sauce Pork with Mashed Potatoes & Tomato Zucchini Bake
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This meal is a delicious, balanced meal that is quick and tasty. You can serve it at a dinner party with little fuss before the meal. I pre-make the cilantro sauce the night or weekend before. I also prep the tomato zucchini bake so that I pull it out of the fridge to put in the oven. By doing some pre-prep, I cut my actual cooking/prep time down by 20 minutes!
Author: Sarah Koszyk
Recipe type: Dinner, Entree, Side Dish, Vegetable Dish
Cuisine: American
Serves: 6
Ingredients
- • 6 pork loins
- Quick & Easy Herb & Lemon sauce: (you can click HERE for more photos of the Herb & Lemon Sauce)
- • 1 Bunch Herb of Choice (basil, cilantro, Italian flat-leaf parsley, parsley, mint) (Pick 1 or do a combo), washed and tips of stems chopped or ripped off
- • Juice of 1 lemon
- • 1 garlic clove, peeled
- • 1 Jalapeno (for a more spicier sauce OR you can omit it for a milder sauce)
- • Salt & Pepper to taste
- Mashed Potatoes: (you can click HERE for additional photos of how to prep the mashed potatoes)
- • 3 Russet Potatoes, sliced into big chunks
- • ½ cup nonfat milk
- • 1 cup fat free cottage cheese
- • ½ cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- • 1 Tbsp onion powder
- • 1 Tbsp garlic powder
- • Salt & Pepper to taste
- Tomato & Zucchini Bake (you can click HERE for additional photos of the Tomato Zucchini Bake)
- • Misto Olive Oil Spray or cooking spray
- • 3 green zucchinis, sliced down the middle in the long way
- • 2 roma tomatoes, sliced
- • ¼ red onion, sliced thinly
- • 2 Tbsp parmesan cheese
- • ½ tsp garlic powder
- • Salt & Pepper to taste
Instructions
- For the tomato zucchini bake: Pre-heat the oven to 400° Bake.
- Spray a glass pyrex dish with a Misto or cooking spray.
- Line the zucchini in a row. Add the sliced tomatoes. Add the sliced onions. Sprinkle on the garlic powder, parmesan cheese, salt, & pepper and spray once again with the cooking spray or Misto spray.
- Put in the oven and bake for 35 minutes. While this is baking, prep the pork and start to boil the water for the potatoes.
- For the pork: In a blender or food processor, add in the cilantro, lemon juice, garlic, salt, & pepper. Puree.
- (***After you prep the sauce, start to make the potatoes. The water should be boiling by now).
- Cover a cookie pan with tinfoil for easy clean-up.
- Spray the tin foil with a cooking spray.
- Add the pork loin & top with the cilantro sauce.
- Cook the pork in the oven under Broil for 4 minutes.
- Flip and cook the other side for 4 more minutes.
- For the potatoes: Boil the water and add the potatoes.
- Cook for about 8 minutes until the potatoes are soft when you poke them with a fork.
- Drain.
- Add in all the other ingredients to the pot with the potatoes.
- You can use a masher to mash up the potatoes OR you can use a hand-held blender. Mash & Serve!
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 3 oz pork, 1 zucchini stick, ½ cup mashed potatoes Calories: 373.1 Fat: 14.7 Saturated fat: 5.8 Carbohydrates: 25.4 Sugar: 4.9 Sodium: 322.7 Fiber: 2.5 Protein: 33.8 Cholesterol: 77.9