This one-pan meal is filled with flavor from fresh rosemary, ginger, and apples for a weeknight meal your family will love.
Apple Butter Pork Chops
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 4 (1-inch-thick) bone-in center-cut pork chops
- 1½ teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 4 slices thick-cut bacon, chopped
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 Gala apple, cored and chopped
- 1 Granny Smith apple, cored and chopped
- ½ cup thinly sliced sweet onion
- 2 teaspoons minced fresh rosemary
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 (12-ounce) jar apple butter
- Garnish: fresh rosemary
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°.
- Rub oil all over pork chops; sprinkle all over with salt and pepper. Let stand a room temperature.
- In a 12-inch oveproof skillet, cook bacon over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until crisp, about 5 minute Remove bacon using a slotted spoon, and let drain on paper towels, reserving drippings in skillet.
- Add pork chops to skillet; cook over medium heat until browned, 1 to 2 minutes per side. Remove from skillet.
- In same skillet, melt butter in skillet over medium heat. Stir in apples, onion, minced rosemary, and ginger; cook until apples are just tender, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in apple butter. Nestle pork chops in apple mixture.
- Bake until an instant-read thermometer inserted in thickest portion of pork chops registers 160°, 15 to 20 minutes. Let stand for 10 minutes. Top with bacon. Garnish with rosemary, if desired.
