Last updated on August 23rd, 2018 at 09:25 am
Korean Style Pork Chops – a simple recipe for Korean style marinated pork chops, resulting in melt in your mouth, super delicious pork chops. Best ever!
I eat pork. I’m a woman and I love pork. You don’t? Especially bacon, bacon makes me happy and grin from ear to ear. But so do pork chops. Beautiful, thick cut, juicy pork chops … Korean style!
Growing up, I must admit that pork was probably the primary meat we ate, more so than chicken. I remember when my parents used to buy half a pig and made all kinds of sausages and other goodies from pork. Yum! So we don’t go as far as to buying our own pig, after all there’s only 2 1/2 of us, but we do enjoy our pork chops, and sausages once in a while. So when hubs came home with these gorgeous pork chops, well I knew I had to make something special with them.
And so these Korean style pork chops were born. I made a simple marinade with soy sauce, garlic and ginger, some honey and some Sriracha sauce and marinated them for a bit, then pan fried them in my trusted skillet and finally finished cooking them in the oven for just a few minutes. When they’re done cooking, the sauce thickens and caramelizes so you end up with these delicious sweet and a bit spicy pork chops that just melt in your mouth.
So simple to make and really these pork chops are an ideal dinner to make after a busy work day. Serve them with some mashed potatoes or your favorite salad. No fuss, not a lot of dishes to clean, my kinda dish!
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Korean Style Pork Chops - a simple recipe for Korean style marinated pork chops, resulting in melt in your mouth, super delicious pork chops. Best ever!
- 4 pork chops
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/4 cup soy sauce low sodium
- 2 tbsp honey
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1 tsp ginger minced
- 2 tsp sriracha sauce
- black pepper to taste
- Preheat oven to 400 F degrees.
- In a medium size bowl whisk together the soy sauce, honey, garlic, ginger, sesame oil and sriracha sauce. Pour over pork chops and let marinade for about 20 minutes.
- Heat the olive oil in a large skillet for medium high heat. Add pork chops, without marinade, and cook for about 5 minutes for the first side, or until it gets a nice brownish color. Flip the pork chops and pour the remaining marinade over them. Cook another 5 min on this side.
- Place the skillet in the oven to finish cooking them. Roast for about 10 minutes, or until pork chops are completely cooked through.
If your pork chops are not very thick, mine were about 1 inch in thickness, you might not need to finish cooking them in the oven.
Please keep in mind that nutritional information is a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.
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This. Recipe. Is. Life. I really wish I could post a picture. So let me setup how this glorious dinner went down. So my fiance just purchased me a pasta maker so I can make homemade pasta at home, because I love me some pasta. So it arrived yesterday and I’ve been anxious to use it. We luckily had 9 thawed out center-cut pork chops that I needed to cook so I looked up recipes and came across this one. The chops were 1 inch pork chops so I followed the recipe to a T and the only thing i did differently was I doubled the marinade amounts (b/c I had double the pork chops), I turned the marinade into more of a creamy sauce by adding heavy whipping cream and a little cornstarch/water mix to thicken it up. I put the chops over the pasta and drizzled some of the sauce and OMG it was mindblowing. Thank you for this yummy yummy recipe. This will be a new favorite in our household.
That is probably one of the best comments I’ve ever received! Thank you and I’m so happy you guys enjoyed this recipe!
Delicious…will make again and again…love the sweet the heat and the ginger!!!
I made this tonight and it was delicious!! I forgot to take pics, but it was very tasty!
Glad you enjoyed it, Susan!
Wow, this was absolutely amazing! My Chops were about 3/4” so I only did 5 minutes in the oven and they were perfect! Thanks for making me look good 😊
Amazing recipe!! I only used a half teaspoon of sriracha (I’m a total spice wuss), but it was still delightfully flavorful. I absolutely loved it and will be making it again 💜
Excellent recipe! I recommend that if you have thinner pork chops, you might want to lower the heat a bit if you are cooking them for 5 minutes on each side . The pork chops I had were about 1/2 inch thick and got a little burned when I cooked the first side on medium high for 5 minutes. I flipped them over and cooked them for about 5 minutes on medium to medium- low heat. Make sure after you add the remainder of the marinade that you let the marinade simmer at least a full minute to make sure it’s safe to eat.
Delicious. If you’re reading this and not sure about making this, do it. It’s fantastic.