Recipes with pork are comforting and delicious. Like these pork chops with lemon pepper sauce which is so savory and satisfying. It’s the perfect dish for dinner guests or holiday events.
Lemon pepper sauce recipe contains a variety of wonderful flavors such as pine nuts. Pine nuts are also called pinoli or pignoli. They are the edible seeds of the pine tree. However only some pine trees produce seeds large enough to be worth cultivating.
Recipes with pork are so succulent dipped in sauce with pine nuts. These seeds are rich in protein, fiber, and folate. Additionally pine nuts provide vitamins E, K and a variety of B vitamins as well. Their minerals include calcium, manganese, phosphate, and more.
Pine nuts are a lovely addition to this dish.
Other ingredients for the lemon pepper sauce recipe include water, lemon juice, lemon zest, and rice vinegar. I also add sugar, salt, cornstarch, and black pepper. And last but not least is garlic powder and dried white onions. My favorite recipes with pork like these chops have just a few ingredients.
All you need for the pork chops is 8 (6oz) boneless chops, olive oil, salt, pepper, and a splash of lime juice. I coat the meat with the seasoning and lime juice before pan searing each side for 5 minutes. Then I move them into the oven to finish off cooking for 15 minutes.
While they are in the oven I start making the lemon pepper sauce recipe by grinding up the nuts in my food processor. Then I combine them with the liquid sauce ingredients in a sauce pan and bring to a simmer for 5 minutes. I then add in the seasoning and whisk them in.
Lastly I add in the cornstarch and whisk again. I allow the sauce to set and chill off in order to thicken a little bit before servings with the delicious pork chops.
Lemon Pepper Sauce for Pork Chops
Recipes with pork are comforting and delicious. Like these pork chops with lemon pepper sauce which is so savory and satisfying. It’s the perfect dish for dinner guests or holiday events.
Ingredients
- Ingredients For The Sauce
- 1 cup water
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1/2 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 tbsp fresh black pepper
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp dried white onions
- 1/4 cup pine nuts
- Ingredients For The Pork Chops
- 8 (6oz) boneless pork chops
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tbsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 2 tsp lime juice
Instructions
Directions For The Sauce
Use your food processor to ground up the pine nuts
Then combine them with the water, lemon juice, and vinegar in a medium sauce pan and bring to a light simmer on medium low heat
Whisk the sugar, salt, fresh black pepper, and garlic powder into the sauce pan and simmer for 5 minutes
Then add in the cornstarch and dried white onion and whisk again
Remove the heat and allow the sauce to cool and rest for 15 minutes
Directions For The Pork Chops
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
Pat the meat down with paper towels to remove extra moisture
Sprinkle them with salt, pepper, and a splash of lime juice
Bring a cast iron skillet to a medium high heat before placing pork chops in the pan (4 at a time is good)
Sear the meat for 5 minutes per side then put the meat in the oven for 15 minutes
