What are your thoughts when you see this pork dish (if you find it appetizing)? Is it a dish you would only consider making for special occasions? Do you think it would require extra effort to prepare?
That’s what I used to think when I saw pictures (much better than mine) of meat dishes covered in a sauce made from scratch. Here's the thing...
I made this pork dish during the week when I was slammed for time.
That’s not to brag. That’s just to say it's not until you make a dish like this that you realize it’s actually super easy to pull together. That of course is according to me.
You may have different thoughts.
To give you a full picture of what it takes to make this dish I've listed the steps and included the approximate time it took for me to do each step.
To give you a full picture of what it takes to make this dish I've listed the steps and included the approximate time it took for me to do each step.
• Trim fat from 3 pork loin chops and season with salt and pepper (2 minutes)
• Melt butter and oil in skillet (1 minute)
• Fry pork (2 minutes per side = 4 minutes)
• Remove pork, add vegetable broth and scrape up brown bits (30 seconds)
• Stir in cider vinegar, honey, Dijon honey mustard, salt, pepper (30 seconds)
• Whisk sauce together (10 seconds)
• Let sauce cook and reduce (2 minutes)
• Plate (30 seconds)
• Melt butter and oil in skillet (1 minute)
• Fry pork (2 minutes per side = 4 minutes)
• Remove pork, add vegetable broth and scrape up brown bits (30 seconds)
• Stir in cider vinegar, honey, Dijon honey mustard, salt, pepper (30 seconds)
• Whisk sauce together (10 seconds)
• Let sauce cook and reduce (2 minutes)
• Plate (30 seconds)
TOTAL TIME – 10 minutes and 40 seconds (we'll round up and call it 11).
What do you think? Sound easy enough?
Pan Fried Pork Loin Chops with Dijon Honey Sauce
Time it takes: 10 to 15 minutes
Makes: 3 Pork Loin Chops with Sauce
3 boneless pork loin chops
1 tsp butter
1 tsp oil
1/2 cup vegetable broth
1 tbsp honey
2 tsp cider vinegar
1 tbsp Dijon honey mustard
salt and pepper
Using a knife, trim excess fat off each pork loin chop. Lightly season both sides of each pork chop with salt and pepper.
In a 10" skillet, heat butter and oil over medium high heat. When butter is melted add pork chops. Cook until pork chops are browned on one side, about 2 minutes. Turn over pork chops and cook the other side until browned, about 2 minutes. Remove pork from skillet and set aside on a wire rack.
Return skillet to heat. Carefully pour in vegetable broth. Cook and stir with a wooden spoon or spatula to scrape up brown bits from the bottom of the skillet. Add honey, vinegar, honey mustard, salt and pepper. Whisk until combined. Bring sauce to a gentle boil. Reduce heat to medium low, and let cook until sauce slightly thickens, about 2 minutes.
Plate pork and pour sauce over top.
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Nice! I love preparing pork chop this way. I usually brown it on the stove top and finish it in the oven, but this works excellently too :)
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