Sage-Brined Pork Chops with Brown Sugar Glaze [Bulkbites.com]

• Servings: 2
• Time: 75 minutes

Pork chops can be included in your diet plan regularly as it contains potassium, iron and other important nutrients. The best part with pork chops is that despite containing loads of nutrients they are as lean as chicken and provide you many health benefits. Pork chops deliver healthy proteins to your body and this in turn is beneficial for muscle cells and tissues. Protein available through pork chops are used to produce certain hormones, enzymes and antibodies. Furthermore, the B vitamins present in pork chops help in metabolizing food to generate energy, produce neurotransmitters and creation of red blood cells.

Nutrition

• calories: 288
• protein: 34
• carbs: 15
• fat: 10
• saturated fat: 2.49
• polyunsaturated fat: 0.86
• monounsaturated fat: 2.93
• cholesterol: 76
• sodium: 435
• potassium: 778
• dietary fiber: 0.81
• sugars: 0.03
• vitamin a: 6
• vitamin c: 1
• calcium: 41
• iron: 1
• magnesium: 0
• complex carbs: 14.16
• other fats: 3.72

Ingredients

• 2 1 cup Water
• 2 tbsp Brown Sugar
• 2 tbsp Spices, sage, ground
• 1 dash Salt, table
• 0.5 tbsp Vegetable oil
• 2 chop Pork, fresh, enhanced, loin, top loin (chops), boneless, separable lean and fat, raw

Instructions

• Heat 1 cup of water. Add sage and salt into the water and stir in to ensure salt has dissolved completely. Remove water from heat and set it aside for cooling.
• In a shallow dish place the pork loins. Now pour the brine solution over it to cover it completely. Cover the dish and keep it in the fridge for at least an hour.
• Now set the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Place a cast-iron skillet in the oven over the central rack. After discarding loin solution, pat dry and allow it to warm on the counter whilst the oven is getting heated.
• Then remove the skillet from the oven. Place it over medium heat. Rub little vegetable oil over the pork and keep it over the pan and sear it for a couple of minutes so that the underside of the pork is golden brown.
• Spread little brown sugar over the top of pork chop and keep it over the pan. Keep the pan in the oven and bake it for about 7 minutes at 140 degrees Fahrenheit. Make sure that the center of the chop is pink at the end of the baking process.
• Remove the pork chop from the pan and pour the pan juice over it just before serving.