Maple Glazed Pork Chops
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Sweet and savory collide in this delicious maple-glazed pork chop dish! Using only a few ingredients, this meal is easy and delicious and has a flavor that is not to be missed.
These delicious maple glazed pork chops are so easy to make and loved by my whole family. The recipe to make them can be very economical, too! I’m going to show you how in this post today. Don’t love pork chops? Feel free to use another meat of your choice! This glaze also works super well with chicken. But if you do love Pork Chops check out some of my other Pork Chop recipes like Crispy Breaded Pork Chops With Milk Gravy, Pan-Seared Pork Chops with Velvet Cream Sauce, Pork Chop Biscuits, and Blackened Pork Chops.
Ingredients You’ll Need for Maple-Glazed Pork Chops:
Ingredients You’ll Need
- 4 pork chops
- Balsamic Vinegar
- Maple Syrup*
- Kosher Salt
- Pepper
*You can substitute maple flavored pancake syrup or even honey. Both will work just fine.
Helpful Kitchen Tips
How to Make Maple-Glazed Pork Chops:
Stir your salt and pepper together.
Sprinkle each side of the pork chops with salt and pepper
Place one to two tablespoons of oil in a large skillet over medium high heat.
I love making these pork chops in my favorite Caraway pans!
Add pork chops and cook until browned on both sides, about 3-4 minutes per side.
See all this yummy stuff on the bottom of the pan? We’re about to work that up into our sauce.
Reduce the heat to medium and pour your balsamic vinegar into the pan.
It is going to bubble and steam a lot when you add it.
Just pour it in and use a wooden spoon to stir around and gently scrape the bottom of the skillet.
Pour in your syrup and stir well.
Add in pork chops and continue cooking, stirring frequently, over medium heat until sauce is thickened and pork chops are no longer pink in the center, 7-10 minutes.
**Important note about sauce: It’s still going to be bubbly but will look kind of like this. Pancake syrup probably won’t be as dark but color is not what we’re looking for here, it’s thickness.
Now this will most likely take the full ten minutes and maybe even a few more if you are using pancake syrup, but I find that maple thickens up a little bit faster so it will be more like seven.
It is hard to tell when the sauce is thickened because it will still be very fluid while it’s hot. When I think we’re there I spoon a little sauce over my pork chop to see if it is thick. Once it is, remove your pan from the heat and allow it to sit for about five minutes. Then, rub each pork chop in the glaze on both sides before removing to serving plates.
Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 4 pork chops about 3/4 inch thick
- 1 cup maple syrup or maple flavored pancake syrup
- 1/3 cup Balsamic Vinegar
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1-2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Instructions
- Place oil in large skillet over medium high heat while you prepare the pork chops.
- Mix together the salt and pepper and sprinkle both sides of each pork chop.
- Place pork chops in hot skillet and cook for 3-4 minutes on each side, or until browned.
- Remove pork chops and set aside.
- Add vinegar to the skillet and stir with a wooden spoon to remove all bits from the bottom.
- Add syrup and stir until well combined.
- Return pork chops to pan and continue cooking until glaze is thickened and pork chops are no longer pink in the center, 7-10 minutes. See post for helpful hints on how to tell when glaze is done.
- Remove pan from heat and allow to rest five minutes. Before removing pork chops, rub each side in the glaze to coat well and then remove to serving plates.
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Great story! Thank you for all that you do. 🙂
These pork chops sound fantastic! Moms know best…good move on going in Wally World!
i think I fell of my chair I was laughing SO freakin hard!!!!!!!!
My 5 yr old is OVER stressed re tornado warnings and goes balistic if one comes on in the car. there is NO way she would have sat thru the movie. Glad to know we can skip that one at Imax!
Ricky is VERY lucky he is still alive and the fact that he only had to pay for ONE unicorn was not thought out well by Katy Rose (LOL, that should have been a one for each hand moment,,,)
love the recipe, and thanks for the reminder about how great Chatanooga is!
Love this post! I laughed so hard- poor Katy Rose. I remember my “My Little Pony” dolls always cheered me up 🙂 Thanks for the recipe as well- so few ingredients but it looks super delicious.
Loved your story! Sorry it had to involve traumatizing Katy Rose though. I’m glad everything turned out well in the end! These pork chops look yummy. We’ll definitely need to try them.
This was a big hit for my family. My husband is a picky eater and doesn’t like to try new things. He is a meat eater so he tried this and loved it. Would it work to do this with Chicken Breast also? Thanks so much for this recipe.
It would be absolutely delicious with Chicken Breasts!!!! Thank YOU so much for being so sweet and taking the time to chat with me in the comments!
Sleep well!
Gratefully,
Christy
Looks yummy! And I’m so glad you all made it through the “tornado warnings”!
Mary, I love you for putting quotes around it! lol
Hope you have a great evening and thanks for being here!
Gratefully,
Christy
Christy I was raised in the mountains of East Tn and the thought of a tornado coming through was never even considered. I grew up only seeing tornados on the 2 channels of TV we could pick up. After UT, I moved to Nashville where I married a native of Nashville so I’m stuck. About 20 yrs ago, a tornado came through over the mountain and down through the whole valley where we were raised, Most of my old (not always old) but those I knew, lost everything. Sorry I got off track. Love the porkchops. I am ordering 3 copies of your cookbook for my daughter and future daughter- in-laws for Christmas.
Ever since I heard you read,”when I was young in the mountains” I have been meaning to get 2 copies and they will go with my family tree that I might actually finish one day. My children do NOT care but maybe a grandchild one day will read it and how it was in the mountains of VA with the coal trucks booming by and Mamaw and I would sit on the porch and wave to the miners on their way home. Their faces would be black as coal and their teeth looked so pretty and white. We would shop at the company store and on Sundays when we walked to church, my little white socks would be black by the time we got to church. The roads were made with burned coal cinders. Take care. You are very impt to alot of us readers. Suzette