Easy Pork Chop Saute With Cranberries
photo by mersaydees
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 1⁄4 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt, divided
- 1⁄4 teaspoon fresh ground pepper, divided
- 4 boneless pork loin chops (1-1 1/4 pounds)
- 2⁄3 cup cranberry juice cocktail
- 2 1⁄2 - 3 tablespoons clover honey (or other mild honey)
- 2 teaspoons canola oil
- 1⁄4 cup chopped onion
- 1 cup cranberries (whole or chopped as you prefer, if frozen thaw first)
directions
- Mix thyme and 1/8 teaspoon each salt and pepper in a small bowl. Sprinkle both sides of pork chops with the thyme mixture.
- Stir cranberry juice and 2 1/2 tablespoons honey in a 1-cup glass measure until well blended.
- Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot but not smoking.
- Add the chops and cook until browned on both sides, 2 to 3 minutes per side.
- Push the chops to one side of the pan, add onion to the empty half and cook, stirring, until the onion is soft and beginning to brown, 1 to 2 minutes. Pour half the juice mixture into the pan.
- Add cranberries.
- Reduce heat to medium and cook, turning the chops occasionally, until cooked through, 2 to 4 minutes.
- Transfer the chops to a serving plate and tent with foil to keep warm. Add the remaining juice mixture to the pan.
- Increase heat to high and cook until the mixtures reduces to form a syrupy sauce, about 2 minutes.
- Season with the remaining 1/8 teaspoon salt and pepper and up to an additional 1/2 tablespoon honey to taste.
- Spoon the sauce over the chops.
- *Tip.
- Tip: To make quick work of chopping cranberries, place whole berries in a food processor and pulse a few times until the berries are coarsely chopped.
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Reviews
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When out of season I do keep a large cache of frozen cranberries to use year 'round in recipes like this one, & I'm not sure how I'd feel if I ever ran out of those tart little berries! Loved your chops done up this way & look forward to making them for company another day, since they were so tasty & satisfying! Thanks for sharing the recipe! [Tagged & made in Please Review My Recipe]
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Quick and good. I'm wondering if the cranberries are supposed to be chopped? There's no instruction for doing so yet there's a "tip" at the bottom of the recipe explaining how to do it. The next time I make this I will chop them first as it might make a difference in the sauce. And I will make this again. Thanks, Annacia! Made for 123 Hit Wonders tag game.