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!
I love experimenting with different cuisines. Korean cuisine is one of my favorites! These pork chops are inspired from Korean cuisine using Korean spices and sauces.
HOW TO COOK KOREAN PORK CHOPS
I made a simple marinade with soy sauce, garlic and ginger, some honey and some Sriracha sauce. The pork chops are then marinated for a bit, then pan fried in my trusted skillet. Finally, I 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.
HOW TO SERVE KOREAN PORK CHOPS
Serve them with some mashed potatoes or your favorite salad. Roasted Broccoli is also a favorite for these pork chops.
You can even serve them over rice or noodles. If serving them over noodles I would make a bit extra sauce.
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Korean Style Pork Chops
Ingredients
- 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
Instructions
- 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.
Notes
- 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.
Nutrition
LOVE!!!! It is definitely my family’s favorite!
I make this recipe on a regular basis and I love it👍
Ooh Joanna, this sauce is amazing!!! Your recipes have never failed me yet. You are one talented cook. Thank you once again for sharing your recipes. And for making me look good in the kitchen! Cheers to you.
Thanks, Angela! Happy to hear you like this recipe!
May I use bone in pork chops? Also, how would I do this in the InstaPot? Time wise is it even worth it to use the IP?
These pork chops are great because of that nice flavorful crust that they form in the skillet, which you wouldn’t be able to achieve in an IP. You could cook them for 5 minutes on high pressure and then sear them on a super hot skillet after, but you might lose some marinade in the IP!
This was quick and absolutely delish!
This has excellent flavor. Grilled is the way to go! Allowing the marinade to work longer is better and over night is ideal. Pump up the honey, I added salt, and I also cranked up the heat with some reaper sauce.
I’ve made these chops several times and they are well liked. I have found that fried rice is a great side dish with this recipe. One question I do have is what is the herb that you used to garnish in the picture?
We used some chopped fresh parsley!
I have made this several times just as directed and it’s fantastic everytime!
Hi Jo,
I made your Korean Pork Chops and they were an instant hit with my family. I made them as directed, changing nothing. I doubled the recipe though, as I had double the pork chops, and I can’t believe how good they were. We just ordered the Power Smokeless Grill and I am going to try these on that, when it comes in. I think some grill char would be good with these too. Thank you for the recipe. It was so easy and extremely fast for a dinner too.
Hey Jo,
I was wondering if you could leave the chops in the marinade overnight, thus making the dish the day before, almost? Is that possible?
Yes for sure!
This is a wonderful recipe. I make it at least once a month. Thank you so much for your hard work 🙂
This turned out really good even though I used garlic and ginger powder. I think the marinade did help to tenderize the chops.
your recipe’s keep helping me cooking onboard korean officers thanks a lot keep on posting korean recipe love it god bless!!!! pls send korean recipe on my email thanks!!!!
That’s fantastic, happy cooking! I will sign you up for our emails. However, we do all sorts of recipes and there won’t only be Korean food, if that’s okay!
I’ve made this at least once a week since finding the recipe. My fiancé can’t get enough of it!
This looks really good. Does the marinade make the chops tender? I’d like to try this, but my pork chops always turn out like shoe leather. Thanks!
That’ll happen when they get overcooked! When you’ve got nice and thin pork chops like this, they don’t need much time to be cooked through.
Hi Jo
Have you tried making these in the Airfryer? I am guessing they would be awesome .
No, I haven’t. I don’t have an airfryer just yet. Been meaning to buy one but never got around to it.
Great Recipe, will fire up the grill and grill them!
Super simple delicious recipe just as posted. My husband loved it and I will de finely make this again! Thanks for sharing.