Hawaiian Porkchops

This is a quick and easy way to make a tasty pork chop dish in a frying pan.

It has a sweet, creamy sauce, and all things considered, can be pretty calorie-wise for what you get.

It’s a great way mid-week to make a quick meal from ingredients you have in your food storage.

It’s suggested that you serve this over rice.

(To be clear, this is a “Cooking with Canning you have already done” recipe. This is not a recipe for canning.  )

This recipe uses:

SOS Mix

Zucchini pineapple

The recipe

Yield: 4 servings

Cooking time: 20 minutes

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Hawaiian Porkchops

A quick and easy main course using your own home-canned pineapple zucchini.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword Pork

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

Servings 4

Calories 523kcal

Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 4 pork chops
• 1 teaspoon garlic (minced)
• 1 onion (medium, chopped)
• 1 half-litre jar zucchini pineapple (pint jar)
• 40 g SOS mix (⅓ cup / 1.5 oz)
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce (low-sodium if desired)
• 1 tablespoon honey

Metric - US Customary

Instructions

• Heat oil in frying pan.
• Add pork chops, cook just until browned.
• Add onion and garlic.
• Empty the jar of pineapple zucchini into a bowl, juice and all.
• Stir in the SOS mix, the soy sauce and the honey.
• Add to frying pan.
• Heat liquid to a boil, then lower to a simmer and let simmer partially covered until pork chops are cooked and onion is soft -- about 10 to 15 minutes.
• Serve over cooked rice.
• Garnish if desired with green onion, or another chopped fresh garnishing veg.

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 523kcal | Carbohydrates: 23.8g | Protein: 51g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 7.9g | Cholesterol: 120mg | Sodium: 827mg | Fiber: 2.1g | Sugar: 16.1g

Recipe notes

• You could use of course tinned pineapple chunks from a store.
• For speed, just used mince garlic from a jar, or, ½ teaspoon garlic powder.

Recipe source

Proctor, Debra G. and Ellen Serfustini. Soup or Sauce (SOS) Mix. Utah State Extension Service. 30 March 2011, v 4.8.

Modifications: changed boneless pork chop to any; changed store-bought tinned pineapple to home-canned zucchini pineapple.

Nutrition

Based on 180 g (6 oz) boneless loin chops. Not including rice.

Per 1 serving (350 g / 12 oz)

• 523 calories, 827 mg sodium

You can reduce calories to 332 by using smaller 100 g (3 oz) pork chops.

Most of the sodium (about 700 mg of it) comes from the soy sauce; you may be able to find a lighter one.

* Nutrition info provided by https://caloriecount.about.com