Low sodium pork chops
My husband is on a low salt diet. This recipe is my favorite and I'd make it even if he wasn't on a low sodium diet!
2 Pork Chops With Apple and onion. Serves two
Ingredients:
Two porkchops, not the thick kind (I buy the thin cut (1/4") just to save calories. The 1/2" cut is good too).
1/2 onion diced in 1/2" or 1" thick pieces separated. You just don't want a small dice.
1 Apple skinned and cored and cut into chunks (any kind of apple is ok, but you don't want a variety that gets mushy when cooked. My favorite is Pink Lady or Golden Delicious. You don't want to use an apple that cooks into a sauce, or one that never softens up.
1 Tableshppon if maple syrup
Some oil and butter(maybe 1 TBS or more as needed.
Start the onion first as it is slow to cook. Put a little oil in a pan, add the onion, and cook over medium heat. Stir frequently so that they don't burn. When they start to get limp and browning, I put a Tablespoon or so of butter in the pan only because the butter helps the onion to brown. Stir frequently as you don't want the onion to burn. If the onion is sticking to the pan, add more butter or oil.
Start cooking the pork chop in a pan.Turn the chops over so that they brown on both sides.
While the onion is browning, peel and cut the apple. When the onion is getting limp and starting to brown, add the apple. Stir frequently. When the onions are browned and the apple looks cooked, pour the maple syrup over the onion mixture. Stir and turn down the heat so that is just keeping the pan warm. Keep stirring frequently so that it doesn't start to burn or the maple syrup starts to boil!
When the chops a nicely browned and the pan has carmelized the the juice, take the chops out of the pan and put one on each preheated plate. Put the onion mixture (use a scraper to get all the good stuff out) into the pork chop pan and stir it around until all the browned stuff in the pan has been integrated with the onion...about 30sec.
Pour the onion mixture over the chops and enjoy.