I was looking for some new recipes the other day and saw one on
Nourished and Nurtured for Honey Glazed Pork Chops that sounded good. I actually don't eat pork chops very often. No reason really. I'm just kind of ho-hum about them. And I usually only make 2 at a time. Which is enough for Justin and Rebecca...but not all 3 of us. So I make pork chops for them and something else for myself (
zucchini salmon boat last night). So this was a GAPS legal meal that I didn't even eat :P The original recipe is for cooking the chops in a pan and making a sauce. However I was trying to be a crazy woman yesterday and do a ton in the kitchen (canned 2 batches of peaches, made pesto, mayo and peach coffee cake), so I was trying to prep a batch of peaches while I was making dinner. So I decided to simplify it a lot and bake the chops with a modified version of the sauce (using what I had on hand). So I used Sarah's recipe as a base. I tasted the pork chops. I think they were really good. The sauce had great flavor. I think I'll use this sauce recipe again...maybe on chicken. My sauce was only 3 ingredients. It's kind of like a mustardy barbecue sauce. I'll post the recipe I made. Check out
Sarah's post for the full version. I'll have to try it that way sometime. These didn't photograph well...I was trying to be quick and just snapped a shot in the pan. You get the idea, though.
Honey Glazed Pork Chops
2 pork chops (any cut)
salt and garlic powder to taste
1/4 cup honey
2-3 tsp. apple cider vinegar
2-3 tsp. mustard
Place chops in a small baking dish and season with salt and garlic powder. Mix honey, vinegar and mustard. Pour over chops. Bake at 350 for 20-30 min., until chops are cooked through. Spoon extra sauce from the pan over chops when serving.
I didn't realize you don't care much for pork chops. Love that this is even simpler and still super tasty than the original recipe!
ReplyDeleteHow great that you baked them instead! I seem to rarely cook anything on the stovetop these days, instead mostly using the crockpot or sometimes the oven. I'm glad these thurned out tasty!
ReplyDeleteSara - I don't mind them. I'd just usually rather have something else. I think it's because we didn't eat them growing up. And I've had some instances where I got sick after eating pork too (kind of like you with bacon). There was a reason...and it wasn't the pork. But it was coincidental that it seemed to happen when I ate pork. Particularly barbequed pork. So it doesn't always appeal to me.
ReplyDeleteSarah - I rarely have time at the stove either. I'm sure the chops taste better the original way. But these were still good.