These Apple Butter Pork Chops are juicy, boldly seasoned, and simmered in a rich sauce with apple butter, onions, collards, and apples.
Instructions
1
Gather your ingredients.
2
Make the rub by combining brown sugar, cayenne, garlic powder, paprika, salt, black pepper, ground clove, cinnamon, and dried thyme.
3
Rub pork chops with rub mixture and let them sit at room temperature for 20-30 min. Reserve any extra rub mixture for step 8!
4
While the pork chops rest, prepare fresh ingredients: peel and slice green apple, peel and grate fresh ginger, mince garlic cloves, and julienne onion.
5
Cook the pork
6
Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Once shimmering, add pork and cook 5-6 min on each side until internal temp reaches at least 145°F. Remove pork chops and set aside, covered.
7
Add onions to the hot skillet and cook until softened, about 4 minutes, stirring often and scraping up little bits on the bottom of the skillet.
8
Add apples, garlic, ginger, and collard greens. Cook until apples have softened, about 5 min, stirring all of the ingredients together as they cook.
9
Make the sauce
10
Add apple butter, any leftover rub mixture from the pork chops, and chicken broth. Stir together and simmer until slightly reduced, about 8 minutes.
11
Add the pork chops back, spooning the sauce over the tops of each before serving hot.
