Smoked Pork Chops With Apple And Sweet Potato
Categories: Pork
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 large dark-orange sweet potato, peeled, cut into 1/2-inch slices and slices quartered
- 1 large unpeeled Granny Smith apple, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1/2 small onion, cut into thin wedges and wedges separated
- 1 tablespoon packed brown sugar
- 4 fully cooked smoked boneless pork chops (about 2 1/2 oz each)
Preparation:
- Heat oven to 425°F.
- Spray 15x10x1-inch pan with cooking spray.
- In small bowl, mix oil, cinnamon, cumin and coriander.
- In large bowl, combine sweet potato, apple and onion.
- Drizzle with 1 tablespoon of the oil-spice mixture; toss to coat.
- Spread mixture in pan.
- Bake 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, stir brown sugar into remaining oil-spice mixture (mixture will be thick).
- Rub mixture over 1 side of each pork chop.
- Remove pan from oven.
- With spatula, move vegetable mixture to one side of pan.
- Place pork, coated side up, in other half of pan.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes longer or until pork is thoroughly heated, and sweet potato and apple are tender.