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Smoked pork tenderloin gets a holiday twist with a sweet cranberry glaze, a cranberry rub, and a juicy finish on the smoker. The cook starts by drying and grinding cranberries into a powder, then mixing that with the original rub to build a bold sweet-tart crust. Cranberry sauce is blended with barbecue sauce for the glaze, and the pork tenderloins are injected with cranberry juice before being seasoned and smoked over cherry wood at 250 degrees.

After about two hours, the tenderloins are glazed around 138 degrees internal temperature and finished until perfectly tender. The result is a moist, smoky pork tenderloin with a visible smoke ring, balanced sweetness, and savory holiday flavor. It is an easy smoked pork recipe for anyone looking for a different kind of BBQ centerpiece, especially when ham and turkey feel overdone.

This cranberry glazed pork tenderloin fits holiday BBQ, smoked pork recipes, pork tenderloin on the smoker, and sweet and savory barbecue dinners. It is a great search match for cranberry pork tenderloin, holiday smoker recipes, cherry wood smoked pork, and easy festive BBQ ideas for dinner or special occasions.
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00:00guys you're at the skull and mortar kitchen and let's not waste any time
00:03let's get to our cranberry pork tenderloin for starters we've got to make
00:08our rub we want to pack as much cranberry flavor as possible in here so we're
00:12gonna add cran dust to the skull and mortar original rub we're gonna fire up
00:16our ninja foodie grill on the dehydrate setting and we're gonna use some dried
00:20cranberries I'm hoping that it's gonna make it easier to dry them all the way
00:24out and we can maybe get a little faster action here now they do appear to have
00:28some extra sugar in them they feel a little extra sticky so they're not a
00:33hundred percent completely dried out but hopefully it's gonna give us a head start
00:36we just kind of want to even layer along the bottom of the the dehydrator that
00:41you're using so the key is here we want to do it for a long time at a low
00:45temperature we're gonna set ours as low as it'll go which is 150 and we're gonna
00:49let it run no I'm sorry 135 so we're gonna let it run for about six hours and see
00:53what happens now I'm gonna save you the heartache of what happened between clips
00:5713 hours we had to grind add some salt and then re dehydrate to get it here I
01:03think we'd have been better off served using actual cranberries versus the
01:06dried cranberries so get your cranberry brick into your food processor and let
01:10it do the heavy lifting from here on out now we're just gonna process this down
01:14into a fine powder there are still some chunks of like kind of sticky cranberry in
01:18here but that is what it is at this point and that's basically what I think we're
01:23looking for there I think that's gonna work out well now we're gonna match this roughly
01:27equal parts with our skull mortar original rub I got some that's kind of
01:30clumped up here so I'm gonna go ahead and toss that in and then we're just gonna do
01:34the same thing where we run it through the processor and break it on down mix it
01:37all up now I'm saying now we have to make our cranberry barbecue sauce we're
01:42gonna open our can of cranberry sauce upside down because some of us just like
01:45to watch the world burn we're gonna dump it right into our food processor and
01:49we're not gonna bother cleaning up the rub the rub's just gonna kind of add to the
01:52flavors we want anyway so after we're done struggling with the can you know we're gonna be
01:56smart enough to use a little instrument here pop this out we're gonna pack it on
02:00down in there I'm gonna go ahead and give it a little precursor a spin here is to
02:04kind of bust it up before we add the sauce now we're just gonna add some of
02:08the beachfront barbecue og sauce with skull and mortar comm you use your
02:12favorite sauce and here it's it's literally you just add it until you're
02:15happy with the consistency with the cranberry flavor it's totally up to you
02:19whatever you like I mean that's what you're gonna eat it anyway right and then
02:23once you get it how you like it it's time to go ahead and get wild and hit that
02:27mix button again blend it up till you're happy with again with the consistency with
02:32the mixture and then we got our sauce done now it's time to handle our meat and
02:38I'm not talking about that meat you pervert I'm talking about the pork
02:41tenderloin we have in front of us this one comes in a package of two both of them
02:45are beautiful looking we're not gonna really do much as far as cleanup goes with
02:49these but we are gonna inject them full of cranberry juice now I know a lot of
02:54you guys probably use apple juice and you're probably sitting there like why
02:57would I induct this full of cranberry juice because we're making cranberry
03:00pork tenderloins my guy and the thing with the injection is is you want to make
03:05sure that you inject as much as the meat can take so let it swell up you can see
03:10the swell we got going here it looks great and if it starts to squirt back out
03:14well then it's too much and you want to back up a little bit worst case scenario it's
03:18just gonna leave back out so you really can't do too much
03:32now guys it's time to hit this with some rub you can use your hand put in a
03:35shaker whatever the key is get as much on there as possible I'm not gonna use
03:40any binders because I'm gonna let it sit for a second so I'm not gonna have any
03:43issue with the rub falling off but you can use a binder if you want you just want
03:47to use something that complements the cranberry flavor right while you rub your
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04:31answer to your grace now I've got my auto acorn set at 250 degrees my meats
04:37directly on the rack my wood is cherry and about two hours later this is what we're
04:42looking at now these are ready to be glazed they're at about a hundred and
04:47thirty eight degrees internal temperature right now which gets us almost to where
04:51we want them for the final cook this is that cranberry sauce we made earlier feel
04:55free to use what you like but it's not really a cranberry pork tenderloin without
04:58the cranberry right guys so we made our own cranberry rub we made our own cranberry
05:09sauce we made our own cranberry injection no we didn't we use cranberry juice and
05:14almost gotcha sucker but we put all of that into these this tasty morsel of meat
05:19and now we have a cranberry pork tenderloin let's give it a cut here take a look at that
05:30some smoke ring there nice moist piece of meat I say we give it a taste what do you say
05:43man the sweetness mixed with the savory of this pork this is a keeper guys I'm just going to talk
05:53with my mouth full dude because I'm just a slob guys if you're tired of the ham if you're tired
06:00of
06:00the turkey this is something right in the holiday spirit that you can cook it's loaded with holiday
06:07flavor it's sweet it's savory it's juicy it's flavorful it is extremely good guys I'm a skull
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06:28skull and
06:28mortar t-shirt we got to get to the cooking you might as well get that food tasting fly as
06:32possible
06:33with your beach bum barbecue rub made exclusively by skull and mortar it's award-winning it's going to
06:39take your food from the top to from the bottom to the top and after we sauce you up we
06:46might as well
06:47rub you up my friends with that skull and mortar rub that's right don't be a pervert we're not talking
06:52about that kind of rub up my friend we're talking about the rub that you put on your meat again
06:57come on
06:58dude have some class put this on your chicken your pork your beef your fish it doesn't matter you can
07:05put it on anything if you can find something you can't put it on shoot me a dm because you'll
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