Fig and Feta Cheese stuffed Pork

If you want to impress someone you love, you have to make them a roulade. A roulade is a dish of filled rolled meat or pastry. It can be savory or sweet. For this dish, you pound out a pork tenderloin with a meat mallot and stuff it with chopped figs and feta cheese. Then you roll it up and bake the pork in the oven. Pretty fancy. if I do say so myself.

This post was created back in March 2011 and has been recently updated with new pictures, nutrition info, and points.

The first time I made this, the fire alarm went off. Do not do what I did. I brushed the apple jelly on the pork right away and after baking it for 20 minutes it was a complete disaster. The apple jelly comes off the pork and drips all over the bottom of the sheet pan. It was not the greatest mess to clean up. I didn't think of this until after that happened but spoon the apple jelly on top of the pork after you get done plating. No sticky burnt sauce on a sheet pan or mess to clean up after!

Grocery List

• 1 (1-pound) pork tenderloin, trimmed 
• Dried figs - any kind of dried fruit will work. I think apricots, cherries, or raisins would be really good!
• Crumbled blue cheese - can sub feta cheese
•  1 tablespoon apple jelly, melted - applesauce or apple butter would also work

How to Make Stuffed Pork Tenderloin

Preheat oven to 450°.

Slice the pork in half lengthwise, cutting to, but not through, other side. Open the halves, laying pork flat. Place pork between 2 sheets of heavy-duty plastic wrap; pound to ½-inch thickness using a meat mallet or small heavy skillet. Sprinkle figs and blue cheese over pork, leaving a ½-inch margin around outside edges. Roll up the pork, jelly-roll fashion, starting with long side. Secure at 2-inch intervals with twine. Sprinkle pork with salt and pepper, and place on a foil-lined jelly-roll pan coated with cooking spray.

Bake at 450° for 20 minutes. Brush jelly over the pork. Bake an additional 5 minutes or until a thermometer registers 160° (slightly pink). Let stand for 10 minutes. Discard twine; cut pork into 12 (1-inch-thick) slices.

Serve this pork with a spinach salad on the side or some cauliflower mash or mashed potatoes. Steamed broccoli or baby carrots would be good as well.

Tools Used for Fig and Feta stuffed Pork Tenderloin

Meat Tenderizer

Plastic Saran Wrap

Sheet Pan