I have always said that pork and Mexican are made to go together. Well, I just proved it again. With only 10 minutes of prep, a crock pot and 8 hours, you can have a very healthy wonderful taste meal.
With only about 3-4 grams of fat per serving, this will fit any diet. But I don’t want you to think of this as a diet dish. This will blow any other chili out of the water on taste.
Rating:
Many times I have trouble with the rating. Not this time. This will be in the top ten for the year for sure. A healthy recipe has no right being this good.
There are really very few recipe for a pork-based chili, but I did find an inspiration recipe Jerre’s Black Bean and Pork Tenderloin Chili at Allrecipes. With my inspiration in place, I changed the beans around for some variety and modified the spices some for taste and added a jalapeno.
Notes: This will make 6 to 8 servings. I included the packing liquid for all the beans. There are taste and nutrients in there. There is also salt so if you are on a low sodium diet, rinse the beans. People rinse the beans to make them look better on salads, and clear type soups would be cloudy.
You should be able to do this on the stove top with a 3-4 hour simmer.
Prep onion and green pepper and chop medium. Prep jalapeno and chop fine.
Prep tenderloin by rinsing and patting dry. Remove all trim-able fat and the silverskin. Cut into 3/4 to 1-inch cubes.
Place all ingredients in a crock pot on low for 8 hours.(High for 4 hours should be fine also). You may include the liquid in the bean cans or rinse to decrease the sodium.
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| Servings | Prep Time |
| 8 | 10 minutes |
| Cook Time |
| 480 minutes |
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- 1 pork tenderloin
- 28 oz black beans
- 14 oz light kidney beans
- 4 oz green chilies
- 1 onion medium
- 1 green pepper
- 1 jalapeno pepper
- 16 oz salsa medium
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- Prep onion and green pepper and chop medium. Prep jalapeno and chop fine.
- Prep tenderloin by rinsing and patting dry. Remove all trimmable fat and the silverskin. Cut into 3/4 to 1-inch cubes.
- Place all ingredients in a crock pot on low for 8 hours.(High for 4 hours should be fine also). Include the liquid in the bean cans.
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All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.
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Last Updated
June 17, 2016
umbrellalady
This recipe sounds wonderful but I wonder about the salt content with all the canned beans and their liquids, as well as the chicken stock and salsa, especially if they are all commercially produced.
Great with the fat content being so low!
Dr Dan
I thought it was just right but I like salt and my blood pressure is good. I always use low sodium broth for what little that is worth.
You can rinse the beans if you’re sodium sensitive or worried. The total sodium my way is about 3 teaspoons of salt. It sounds heavy but you add salt to a recipe but you don’t usually count what is in the components. From what I can find, rinsing the beans would decrease the sodium by 20-40%. You could also use low sodium beans or dry beans.
Steph@PlainChicken.com
sounds great!
Chris
Ahhhh! Your crock pot control panel looks like Darth Vader! I now dub he, Crock Vader.
“You don’t know the power of the Crock side!”
Dr Dan
I was thinking R2D2… it beeps
Jeffrey and Juli
This looks great- and I love your high-tech slow cooker!I agree with Chris, it looks like Darth Vader.
One assumes that the[cooking]force is strong with this one? ;)
Martha (MM)
Gorgeous slow cooker dish! Thanks for linking this one up too :-)
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umbrellalady, I feel your pain re sodium. I am new to learning ways to curb it. But so far in my education it appears that prepared stocks and bouillons are the devil for me. (I started rinsing canned vegetables so many decades ago that I can’t remember the reason.) I’m not about to begin making homemade stock regularly so I am relegated to diluting regular canned stock or using the low-sodium stuff.
DrDan, I really like this recipe. Pork is just wonderful easy low-fat thing, isn’t it? And lends itself well to crockpotting.
Susan
Dr. Dan – I realize this is not a new recipe for you but I just found your blog and tried it over the weekend. I’m a bit of a spice wimp so I did not add jalapenos and I only had half the red salsa called for. I ended up with half red and half chili verde salsa. It was wonderful. Thanks for the site. I live alone and it is great to find some recipe with smaller servings. The chili made a lot but I shared with extended family. Thanks again!
DrDan
Hi Susan, I leave the comments open on all recipes (at least for now) so readers can still contribute.
I find it hard to believe this recipe is 4 yrs old. I really do love this one.
Thanks for the note and rating.
Dr Dan