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Three Cup Chicken
Pork Chops in Apple Sauce
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Make this quick & easy 1-minute pressure cooker pork chops and simple homemade applesauce. Moist & tender pork chops drizzled with warm cinnamon applesauce
| Prep Time | 10 minutes |
| Cook Time | 11 minutes |
| Servings |
2-4 servings
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Ingredients
- 2-4 pork loin chops centre-cut bone in was used when making this recipe, Try to choose pork loin chops with some marbling of fat.
- 1 tablespoon grapeseed oil or olive oil
- 1 small onion sliced
- 3 cloves garlic roughly minced
- 2 gala apples thinly sliced
- 2 cloves optional
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1/2 cup chicken stock low sodium, or water
- 2 tablespoons light soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon butter
- kosher salt to taste
- black pepper ground, to taste
- 1 1/2 tablespoon cornstarch mixed with
2 tablespoons water, optional
Ingredients
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Instructions
- Make a few small cutsaround the sides of the pork chops so they will stay flat and brown evenly. Season the pork chops with generous amount of kosher salt and ground black pepper.
- Press Sauté button and click the adjust button to go to Sauté More function on the Instant Pot. Wait until the indicator says "hot".
- Add grapeseed oil into the pot. Ensure to coat the oil over the whole bottom of the pot. Add the seasoned pork chops into the pot, then let it brown for roughly 2 – 3 minutes on each side (don’t need to keep flipping). Remove and set aside.
- Reduce the heat to medium by pressing cancel button, then pressing sauté button. Add in the sliced onions and stir. Add a pinch of kosher salt and ground black pepper to season if you like. Cook the onions for roughly 1 minute until soften. Then, add garlic and stir for 30 seconds until fragrant.
- Add in the thinly sliced gala apples, whole cloves (optional) and cinnamon powder, then give it a quick stir. Slice the apples thinly because you want to extract as much of their juice into the sauce as possible within a relatively short cooking time. Add the honey and partially deglaze the bottom of the pot with a wooden spoon.
- Add chicken stock and light soy sauce, then fully deglaze the bottom of the pot with a wooden spoon. Taste the seasoning and add more salt and pepper if desired.
- Place the pork chops back with all the meat juice into the pot.
- Close lid and pressure cook on Manual at high pressure for 1 minute. When time is up, turn off the Instant Pot and let it fully natural release (roughly 10 minutes). Open the lid carefully.
- Remove the pork chops and set aside. Make sure to check the pork chops' internal temperature with a Food Thermometer. Temperature needs to be at least
145°F . Turn heat to medium by pressing the sauté button. Remove the cloves and taste the seasoning one more time. Add more salt and pepper if desired. Add butter and stir until it has fully dissolved into the sauce. - Optional Step: Mix the cornstarch with water and mix it into the applesauce one third at a time until desired thickness.
- Drizzle the applesauce over the pork chops and serve immediately with side dishes. Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
Amy and Jacky are a husband and wife team behind pressurecookrecipes.com. Born and raised in families from the restaurant industry, they have what they have coined “foodie genes”. Surrounded by so much food growing up and in their own food media company they started on their own, they fell in love with every aspect of food from photography to recipe development. In their exploration of delicious food and cooking techniques, they stumbled across pressure cooking and more importantly, Instant Pot! Amy and Jacky started their blog to bring happiness to the world through good food that is easy to make and delicious to eat! They want all of their readers to feel inspired and excited when cooking with their very own pressure cooker.
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Really nice!
Splendide taste and tender it was which the entire family enjoyed!
This was delicious! I doubled it and ended up pureeing the sauce to thicken it as my son can’t have cornstarch. The flavors are great. Since i had lots more meat I pressure-cooked for 5 minutes.
This was so good! I will definitely be making it again. I skipped the cloves and it still tasted great.
What an excellent recipe! Very tender and flavorable!
Just perfect ! Very easy to do and tasty !
Did not have Gala apples so substituted a half a cup of applesauce for each Apple called for. Also had no cornstarch but use 3 tablespoons of flour per 1 tablespoon of cornstarch and it worked well. Delicious recipe and result.
Tip
Use four boneless chops. Your not going to fit four bone in chopsin the bottom of a 6 quart to sear.
Easy recipe that turned out great. Meat was moist and very tasty. I did sub center cut pork and my canned apples.
Second time. This time i had cornstarch used freeze dried minced Garlic. Not as good.
This recipe was quick and easy, and all three of my kids loved it!!
Very flavorful but I felt the chops were not as tender as I wanted. I cooked them a couple minutes longer but will cook a bit longer than that. Cooked 6 chops ( w additional apples and broth, etc) cooked 5 minutes. Next time will do 7.
My first time using instapot and soooo good
The pork chops were delicious but tough! Need to cook longer!
Just. Awesome.
Cooked costco 1 inch thick porkchops 7 min. Temped at 160F when done. Great recipe.
Not sure where the garlic comes into the recipe.
This sauce turned out super good. It’s kind of like apple sauce gravy! And it was gluten-free.