Tomahawk Pork Chops with molasses butter and apple bacon chutney
Tomahawk Pork Chops with molasses butter and apple bacon chutney

Tomahawk chop or regular chop - a good pork chop is fantastic on the grill when you baste it with a sweet and sticky molasses garlic butter and serve it with a warm bacon apple chutney. It's a meal that just feels like a hug!

theingredients

4 tomahawk pork chops
salt and pepper
Chutney
1 medium onion, chopped
5 slices of bacon, chopped
2 cups (about 3) sweet apples (honeycrisp is great), diced
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 cup apple sauce
1/4 cup apple cider
1/3 cup brown sugar
Butter
1/4 cup unsalted  butter
3 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 Tbsp Molasses
1 Tbsp brown Sugar

themethod

  1. Preheat the bbq to medium high heat.
  2. Season both side of the pork chops with salt and pepper.
  3. Place unsalted butter into pot. Add molasses, crushed garlic, brown sugar and melt over medium heat.
  4. Mix together and lower heat.
  5. Place olive oil in a skillet.
  6. Add onions and cook until softened.
  7. push onions to the side and add chopped bacon to the bare side of the skillet.
  8. Add chopped apples to the onions.
  9. Season the apples with cinnamon and nutmeg.
  10. Toss together and let the bacon get crispy then add applesauce, apple cider vinegar and sugar.
  11. Mix together and allow to simmer over 20 minutes over medium low heat while you grill the pork.
  12. Place the pork on the grill and cook for 3-4 minutes. Turn a quarter turn and continue to cook for another 2 minutes. Baste with the molasses butter .
  13. Flip the pork and cook for 3 minutes.  Baste with molasses butter. Turn each chop a quarter turn and continue to cook for another 2 minutes or until done to desired temperature (160F).
  14. Allow the meat to rest and serve with chutney.

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