Pork chops go with many side dishes, like sauerkraut, beans, parsley potatoes, carrots, fried apples, and scalloped potatoes. But, even if you change the sides frequently, the same old grilled or baked chops can become boring. This is when it’s time to think about sprucing up the current meal by adding a new touch.
Honey Garlic Pork Chops is a new way to serve the meal that adds flavor and excitement to average pork chops. You can still serve the sides you prefer, or you can spruce them up as well.
To begin, heat a heavy skillet. Season the chops so they stay moist, then brown them on each side for about 5 minutes. Next, melt butter and add honey, with small pieces of chopped garlic, to create a sauce. Add it to the pan and reduce the heat, so the sauce does not dry out completely in the skillet.
There is an alternative to this recipe where the chops are baked in the oven instead. The chops are basted with the same sauce and broiled until the edges just begin to char. This option requires less monitoring but provides the same flavor as the skillet method.
The best feature of this recipe is that you can add other flavors to the sauce, such as ginger, orange peel, raspberry or apple jam, or any other spice you feel works well with pork chops. If you want more of an Asian feel to the dish, add ginger and sesame seeds to the sauce. Serve with rice and pea shoots. You can use egg noodles instead of potatoes, using some of the sauce to season the noodles when they are finished cooking.
There are many other ways to use this recipe in other dishes. The sauce can be used for grilled salmon, fish, or chicken. It may also be used for beef. One benefit of using the sauce is that it doesn’t take much time to put together. Another benefit is that you can alter it to use up ingredients you have at home, like the last few spoons of jelly in the jar or some sesame seeds you have sitting around that don’t get used much.
There are many ways to spruce up pork chop meals or meals with other meats. The Honey Garlic Pork Chops recipe is just the beginning of the discovery in sprucing up meals by adding new flavors that are sure to please.
