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Pork and apple skillet dinner
This delicious weeknight meal comes together with little effort. Apples, with their touch of sweetness, are a perfect complement to pork chops. Serve with salad and mashed sweet potatoes or brown rice.
Ingredients
- vegetable oil5 mL (1 tsp)
- garlic, minced2 cloves
- dried thyme leaves5 mL (1 tsp)
- ground pepper1 mL (¼ tsp)
- boneless pork loin chops4 (about 450 g/1 lb)
- red skinned apples, cored and sliced2
- sodium-reduced chicken or vegetable broth125 mL (½ cup)
- Dijon mustard5 mL (1 tsp)
- cornstarch2 mL (½ tsp)
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 3 steps
In a bowl, combine oil, garlic, thyme and pepper; add pork chops and rub mixture all over.
Heat a large non-stick skillet over medium-high heat and brown pork chops on both sides. Remove to plate and add apple slices to pan; cook, stirring for 2 minutes.
Whisk together broth, mustard and cornstarch; pour into skillet. Stir to coat apples. Return pork chops to skillet and cook, turning once, for about 3 minutes. Use a digital food thermometer to check that the pork has reached an internal temperature of 71 °C (160 °F).





