Roast Pork Tenderloin with Plum Barbecue Sauce

Ingredients

• 0.5 teaspoon pepper black
• 0.5 teaspoon pepper black freshly ground
• 1.5 pounds plums black pitted quartered
• 0.3 cup brown sugar packed
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil 
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil 
• 0.1 teaspoon pepper red crushed
• 2 teaspoons ground mustard dry
• 2  garlic finely chopped
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger 
• 0.3 cup catsup 
• 2 pound pork tenderloins trimmed
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce 
• 1 cup onion chopped
• 0.3 cup rice vinegar 
• 0.5 teaspoon salt 
• 1  star anise 

Equipment

• frying pan
• sauce pan
• oven
• kitchen thermometer
• aluminum foil

Directions

1. Heat a large saucepan over medium-high heat.
2. Add 2 tablespoons canola oil to pan, and swirl to coat.
3. Add onion and garlic; saut 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
4. Add sugar and the next 10 ingredients (through star anise); bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer, partially covered, for 30 minutes or until plums break down and sauce thickens, stirring occasionally. Discard cloves and anise.
5. Preheat oven to 45
6. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat.
7. Add 2 tablespoons oil to pan; swirl to coat.
8. Sprinkle pork evenly with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper.
9. Add pork to pan; saut 7 minutes, turning to brown on all sides.
10. Transfer pork to a foil-lined jelly-roll pan; coat with 1/2 cup plum sauce. Roast pork at 450 for 15 minutes.
11. Remove pork from oven. Turn pork over; coat with an additional 1/2 cup plum sauce. Roast 10 minutes or until a thermometer inserted in thickest portion of pork registers 15
12. Remove from pan; let stand 10 minutes. Slice crosswise.
13. Serve with remaining plum sauce.