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Pork Chops with Sweet-and-Sour Cider Glaze
Gourmet : December 2000
Active time: 15 min Start to finish: 25 min
Yield: Makes 2 servings

2 (1-inch-thick) pork rib chops (1 lb total)
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup apple cider
1 1/2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds

Preparation
Pat pork chops dry and season with salt and pepper. Heat oil in a 12-inch nonstick skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then sauté chops until browned on both sides, about 10 minutes total.
Stir together cider and brown sugar and add to skillet. Simmer, uncovered, turning chops once, until meat is almost cooked through, about 3 minutes. Transfer chops to a plate.
Add vinegar and mustard seeds to sauce and boil, stirring to scrape up any brown bits, until reduced to about 1/3 cup, about 5 minutes. Return chops with any juices on plate to skillet and simmer until meat is just cooked through and sauce is slightly thickened, about 2 minutes.

Dishes - get out! You've never had a pork chop? That just amazes me :) I served cubed butternut squash roasted with rosemary and just a plain baked potato and of course you know that Ken had his salad (and so did I).

I'm sure you could just make the sauce by itself and use it over a pork tenderloin, if you'd like. But, I'm a pork chop lover here and its hard for me to think that somebody has never had one! Just FYI - I buy the center cut, loin chops (with a bone). You can also buy boneless but they can get to be very tough if you're not careful. I think this recipe would do well with a boneless chop, but boneless chops just needs a short cooking time - maybe 3-4 minutes a side, otherwise you'll get little hockey pucks.

Thanks again

thanks again for the recipe.

brenda

Thanks Woodie....I always like what you do.

Nancy

Nancy, thank you for the kind words, I hope you like it and when I googled up recipes the other day for pork chops and cider I found plenty that called for apples, but I didn't have an apple in the house.