When cooking pork, there is a fine line between well done and overdone. Well done gives you a succulent, tender, juicy chop. Overdone gives you a tough, hard-to chew piece of meat that will detract from even the best recipe.
Pork chops go well with an amazing number of different fruits and vegetables that vary the basic taste enough that eating them can always be a delight and never boring. Pork chops recipes are numerous enough to fill an entire cookbook. Even though garlic and onion are staples that will enhance almost any pork recipe, there are other ingredients like wine, cream of mushroom soup, cranberries, pineapples, soy sauce, and ginger that also taste amazing when combined with the humble pork chop. Pork chops can be stuffed, baked, fried, and grilled. Each method of cooking brings out a welcome and different angle to the flavor of the pork chop.
Generally speaking, if we use pineapple in the recipe, we call it Hawaiian. The ingredients that go with the pineapple can make a succulent difference to the flavor of the meat. An easy boneless pork chop recipe begins with breading the chops, browning them, and then simmering them in a delicious sauce of pineapple juice, catsup, and vinegar. You can then top them with pineapple slices to serve. You can vary this recipe by adding green peppers and brown sugar.
Pork chops go well with a variety of other fruits in addition to pineapples. Thyme, salt, pepper, and pear combine with pork chops for a lovely taste treat. Or how about peaches combined with green onion, red bell pepper, cilantro, limejuice and cayenne pepper flakes to give a wonderful flavor.
One super-easy boneless pork chop recipe involves putting them in a crock-pot with cream of chicken soup and cream of mushroom soup. Leave them to cook all day and you will be able to enjoy a super-tender and tasty meal.
Other cooking tips for your pork chop recipes include making a marinade out of chopped rosemary, honey, orange zest, lemon, or lime. You can add a fruit to this marinade and perhaps some brown sugar. Instead of rosemary, you can put in marjoram or oregano. A dash of Worcestershire sauce can add some interest to the marinade. Make up your own variations on this theme for fun and happy taste buds.
The only limit you can put on the variations in pork chop recipes is your imagination. Some wonderful combinations undoubtedly seemed inedible until the first time someone tried them and found out that the flavors actually mixed well and produced something special.