Tenderloin with Wine and Chocolate Sauce for Valentine’s Day

Ingredients:

1 tenderloin medallion
1 ½ cups Merlot red wine
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 onion, chopped
1 jalapeno pepper, chopped
1 piece of dark chocolate, chopped
2 tbsp olive oil
Salt and pepper

Preparing:

Fry the onion, jalapeno pepper and garlic in olive oil for 5 minutes.
Add wine and let reduce over medium heat for 3 minutes.
Add chocolate and mix well, keeping the fire very low.

Season the medallion with salt and pepper.
Cook tenderloin medallion on both sides, in another pan, with olive oil.

Serve the tenderloin medallion and bathe with chocolate sauce.

Saint Valentine’s Tenderloin with Pears and Malbec Honey

Ingredients:

4 medallions of beef tenderloin
3 ripe pears, thinly sliced
½ t Malbec wine
1 carrot, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
½ onion, cut into strips
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
2 tbsp butter
1 tsp honey
1 tsp olive oil
Salt and pepper

Preparing:

Preheat oven to 180ºC (350ºF).

Fry the onion, garlic and carrot in olive oil for 5 minutes. .
Transfer to a bowl and reserve.
Brown spiced medallions in the same skillet on both sides.
Bake medallions for 10 minutes.

Return vegetables to skillet and add Malbec wine.
Add the balsamic vinegar, honey and butter when the wine has been reduced to a third par, and whisk well.
Add pears and wait about 3 minutes.
Strain the sauce, add salt and pepper and reserve the pears.

Serve the medallions, bathe with the sauce and accompanied by pears.

Pork Leg in Squash Sauce for New Year

Ingredients:

1 leg of pork with bone of 7 kg
¼ cup brown sugar
4 tbsp of seasoning
3 tbsp mustard
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

Squash Honey:
1 kg squash,peeled and cut into chunks
3 cups brown sugar
2 cups water
10 cloves
6 g jamaica
2 cinnamon sticks

Broth:

2 cups Squash honey
1 cup red wine

Sauce:
2/3 cup sweet cream
1/3 cup of rum or brandy
2 oz of butter
2 tbsp flour
Beef broth

Preparing:

Squash Honey:
Mix sugar with water, cinnamon, Jamaica and cloves.
Add the squash and cook in the microwave for 10 to 15 minutes at high power.

Preheat oven to 150ºC (300ºF).
Line a tray with foil.

Form a paste with seasoning, mustard, sugar and Worcestershire sauce.
Varnish the leg with the paste.
Place the leg in the tray with squash honey and red wine.

Cover with foil and bake for 3 to 4 hours.
Remove the juice and bake again until golden.

Sauce:
Melt
the butter with the flour in a saucepan.
Place the beef broth, squash, liquor and cream.
Mix well and add the squash at the end.