PORK CHOPS WITH APPLES AND MUSHROOM SAUCE

I made this dish last night and let me tell you, it rocked! The meat almost melts in your mouth with the sauce. Pair these chops with a couple baked potatoes and a green salad to round out the meal. If you’re not watching your carbs too much, add some garlic toast to the dish. A super redneck cooking tip – instead of butter and sour cream, pour the sauce on the baked potato – delicious!!

Ingredients:

4 center-cut pork chops
Salt and pepper to taste
Olive oil
Button mushrooms
1/2 sweet onion
1/2 stick butter
1 small apple
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

How to:

Turn the barbecue on high. Place the pork chops on the grill for about 1 minute on each side to sear the meat. Turn the meat to make cross cut sear marks – this just looks cool!
Take the meat off the grill and turn off one side of the grill. Turn the heat on the other side on low.

Place the chops on a piece of aluminum foil. Salt and pepper the meat to taste. Drizzle about a teaspoon of olive oil over the meat. Wrap the foil tight and place it on the grill – on the side without the direct heat. Cook on the low indirect heat for 45 minutes –halfway through turn the chops around to heat them evenly.

While the meat is cooking slice up a package of button mushrooms. You can use any mushroom you like -- buttons are easy to come by and slightly less expensive. Heat the 1/2-stick of butter (with a nod to Paula Deen!) in a medium saucepan on medium-low heat until it melts. Stir it around so it doesn’t stick to the pan or burn. Add the mushrooms.

Quarter a half of a sweet onion. Don’t chop it too small, leave the pieces fairly large. They will shrink down during the heating process. Add the onions to the saucepan.

Peel the skin off an apple – use any kind of apple you like – Use a grater and grate about a teaspoon of the apple. Add to the saucepan.

Turn the heat up to medium and add 1 tbsp red wine vinegar, 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce. Stir constantly and heat until the mushrooms and onions caramelize and you have a syrupy consistency.

The pork chops should be finished by now. Simply pour sauce over pork chops and enjoy!