PORK CHOPS WITH PLUM SAUCE RECIPES

Steps:

• Heat the vegetable oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Season pork chops with salt and pepper; cook in the hot oil until browned, about 2 minutes per side. Remove pork chops to a plate.
• Reduce heat to medium; cook and stir the garlic in the skillet just until fragrant, 10 to 20 seconds. Pour in the soy sauce, red wine vinegar, brown sugar, ginger, and cloves; bring to a boil. Stir the mixture until the brown sugar dissolves; add the plums. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer the mixture until the sauce has thickened and the plums are very soft, about 45 minutes. Mash the plums with a potato masher to an applesauce-like texture. Place the pork chops back into the pan and cook in the sauce until no longer pink in the middle, 10 to 15 minutes. A meat thermometer inserted into the middle of a chop should read 145 degrees (63 degrees C).

Steps:

• Slice one plum into quarters, slice the other two into thin pieces.
• Rinse the quinoa to remove any remaining bitter coating.
• Brush the porkchops with olive oil and grill them. Sear each side with a.
• very hot fire to seal in the juices then move then away from the fire to finish.
• cooking.
• While the chops are cooking put the plum, ginger, and port into a small heavy.
• skillet. (I use a candied ginger paste, but you can use grated fresh ginger, or.
• candided ginger that you mash with a little water to make a thick paste).
• Bring the sauce to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer. Stir every minute or.
• so until the liquid is reduced by about 1/2.
• Remove from heat.
• While the chops and sauce are cooking, bring the water to boil in a small.
• sauce pan.
• Add quinoa, cover and reduce to a simmer.
• When the water is gone (about 15 min usually), remove from heat.
• Place 1/2 the quinoa on each plate.
• If including pine nuts, sprinkle 1/2 on each plate over and around the.
• quinoa.
• Plate the chops on top of the quinoa & drizzle sauce over & around the chop.