We’ve set the desserts aside on this one and hit the main dish recipe hard with our Apple Pork Chops. After the pork loin is cooked and resting we add bacon and apple cider vinegar to the pan drippings to create the ultimate pork loin chop topping. It’s subtly sweet and acidic with a fatty bacon and onion flavor to cut through the moist pork loin. Watch Matt chef it up below!
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What is the Best Way to Cook Pork Chops?
In our opinion, any meat is best cooked by searing it on the stove top and then finished off in the oven, so the meat remains tender and moist. We use that exact method to cook these chops and you don’t wont to do it any other way.
Achieving a crispy sear to the outside of any meat, be it chicken thighs, steak or pork loin chops is pretty essential to ensuring it’s delicious. And, by finishing it off in the oven, you can be sure that the meat is fully cooked through to your liking.
This is the Best Pork Chop Recipe
If we’re being honest, when Matt tried this recipe the first time, he totally winged the pan drippings sauce to top the meat. The original plan was a red wine reduction, but that quickly changed to apple cider vinegar, bacon and cinnamon.
The first bite of the drippings and meat was indescribably good! My eyes widened, all my senses were awakened and I instantly felt nostalgia for the fall season. The combination of sweet cinnamon and acidic apple cider vinegar pairs perfectly with the mellow taste of pork loin. It’s truly unbeatable.
Pan Seared Apple Pork Chops
Our favorite way to cook meat, as mentioned above, is pan seared and then finished off in the oven, so you can imagine we have more recipes cooked in a similar fashion. This recipe is definitely Matt’s favorite, while mine is our crispy chicken thighs. I could eat them everyday. However, with fall almost in full bloom, we would definitely recommend you give our apple pork chops a try to enjoy the season to its fullest.
Check out our Bacon Wrapped Pork Chops recipe!
Recipe can be quickly added to MyFitnessPal – Search “KetoConnect – Apple Pork Chops”
Apple Pork Chops | Bacon and Apple Cider Vinegar Sauce!
Ingredients:
- 16 oz Pork Loin Chops, Boneless (two 8oz pork loins)
- 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
- 2 tbsp Butter
- 1 tbsp ghee
- 1 slice bacon, chopped
- 1/6 medium white onion(minced)
- 1 inch ginger, grated
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 35 drops Liquid Stevia
- 1/2 tsp Pink Himalayan Salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
Instructions:
- Season the pork chops with salt and pepper and pat them dry.
- Heat a pan to medium high heat and add ghee. Once the pan is hot and the ghee is glistening add in the pork chops. After three minutes flip them and allow them to continue to sear for another three minutes. Turn the chops onto their side if there is a strip of fat to crisp it up.
- Place the pork chops in a 400 degree oven for 15-20 minutes. Once they are cooked set them aside to rest.
- Place the pan that has all the drippings back onto the stove top and scrape up the drippings on medium high heat. Add 1 slice of bacon and allow it cook almost fully. Once the bacon is cooked add in the onion and ginger and let it cook down a couple minutes. Season with salt and pepper
- Add 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar to the pan along with the liquid stevia and cinnamon. Allow it to reduce on high heat until you get a sticky, thick sauce. When sauce is fully reduced, add 2 tbsp of butter and allow the sauce to cook for an additional 2 minutes.
- Serve each chop warm with half the sauce on top. Enjoy!
Notes
Written by
Megha Barot
Megha has always been a passionate cook, but she took this to a new level after starting her keo journey in 2015. She loves creating new recipes and producing educational content for KetoConnect, which she co-founded in 2016 with Matt. Her passion for healthy eating and personal development continues to thrive. She's the proud mom of two awesome kids.
This was Fabulous!!
This is a great recipe! I have made it many times now and both my husband and I love it! It’s easy to make with items we usually have in the house, and the flavors are so tasty and fun. Thanks for sharing your recipes and love of food!
Delicious!! I am going to put this sauce on everything!
I haven’t had pork chops in a long time and I overcooked these but the sauce is sooo good. wow I’m going to make these over and over again. Thank you. You have some great recipes.
Hi! Super excited to try this recipe as hubby loves ACV and we al love pork chops but I’m bored with all the go to recipes I have. I came to the the comment section to see if anybody else had the same problem I did. I added the Apple cider vinegar and continue to try to reduce it for quite some time and it never quite turned into anything even resembling a sauce. It just burn the hell out of my eyes and the food in the pan and now looks like burnt bits in quite a bit of liquid. Any suggestions? Could it possibly have something to do with the type of vinegar? Not the best quality? Thanks!
Hey, try replacing the liquid stevia with a brown sugar erythritol and have the sauce simmer down to a sticky coating. Mmmmm
Your recipe calls for 35 drops of liquid stevia. Please tell me that is a typo and should read: 3 to 5 drops.
Hi! Not a typo. It counteracts the 1/2 c. of apple cider vinegar.
SO GOOD!! Thank you for this suggestion. I needed a change,and boy was this a great one!
Just wondering if the stats at the bottom are for the full recipe or just one serving? Thanks!
The nutrition info is for one serving
One slice of bacon. Cute.
Hello,
I am going to make this tonight but have always brined my pork chops before cooking them. Would you recommend brining with this recipe or will it interfere with any of the flavors/textures?
Thanks!
It would probably work.
Hey there, I’m planning on making this for my family tonight & doubling or tripling it. (We have 5 kids lol)….will the reduction double/triple ok?
Yes, it should be fine
I would think a sauteed cabbage side would go well with these pork chops.
This great for a quick meal prep.
This recipe completely surprised me. Definitely need to follow through and finish making the sauce. The smell at first was pretty overwhelming but in the end the taste was AMAZING!!!! This is definitely one of my new favorites.
Severed this for the second time. It’s definitely a keeper recipe. Tonight I served it with a side of your Parmesan and nutritional yeast (I also add crushed pork rinds) baked zucchini fries and a small green salad. Pork chops never tasted so good. Love your recipes…they always have so much flavor.