Pork with Parsnips and Sweet Potatoes

By kathryns

One baking sheet meal

Ingredients

• 1 large sweet potato, peeled, halved and sliced 1/2" thick
• 3 large parsnips, halved and cut into 2-inch pieces
• 1 TB finely grated fresh ginger
• 3 TB olive oil +
• 2 TB light brown sugar
• 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
• 1 pork tenderloin (1 lb) excess fat and silver skin removed
• coarse salt
• 1 bu watercress, trimmed
• lime wedges for serving
• peppery greens

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 475. On a rimmed baking sheet, toss sweet potato, parsnips and ginger with oil and spread in even layer. Mix together brown sugar and cayenned and rub all over pork; add to sheet. Season pork and vegetables with salt and roast until pork is 145 degrees; 20 - 22 minutes. Let pork rest 10 minutes.

Toss vegetables with watercress, drizzle with oil and season with salt. Slice pork and serve with any accumulated juices from sheet, the greens and lime wedges.