Pork
chops were buy-one-get-one-free at Winn Dixie this week, so we’ve got more than
we know what to do with now. Last night I
tried out a new recipe. I’ve had pork
with apples before, but this one also used a bottle of hard apple cider to infuse
it with even more apple flavor. It only
took a few minutes to throw together.
The alcohol cooks away, but if you could use just plain apple cider or
juice if you’d like too (I didn’t want a whole 6-pack of cider, so I just
picked up one bottle from ABC…they probably thought it was weird that I only
bought that…)
Hard Apple Cider Pork Chops
(adapted from Aggie’s
Kitchen)
Ingredients:
·
Thin boneless pork loin chops (we cooked
5)
·
1 t salt
·
1 t pepper
·
1½ t fresh rosemary
·
1 t garlic powder
·
2 Golden Delicious apples, chopped into
large chunks
·
1 red onion, chopped
·
1 yellow onion (or we used 2 small ones),
chopped
·
1 12-oz bottle apple cider
·
Drizzle of olive oil
Directions:
1. Mix together salt, pepper, rosemary and garlic
powder together in a small bowl. Season
both sides of the pork chops generously.
2. Heat oil in a large skillet over
medium heat. Place the pork chops on the
pan and cook for 4 minutes, or until chops are golden brown. Cook on the other side for an additional 4
minutes. Set aside on a plate.
3. Put the sliced onions and apples
in the skillet and season with a pinch of salt and pepper. Pour in part of the hard cider (about ¼ cup)
and deglaze pan while tossing the apples and onions.
4. Add rest of the cider and let
simmer for 5 minutes uncovered until the liquid starts to reduce. Add the pork chops back to the skillet and
cover. Turn off heat and let sit 1-2
minutes.
5. Serve pork chops and top with the
apple and onion mixture. We enjoyed ours
with a simple salad (we had lots of veggies in our fridge we had to use up!)
