Glazed smoked pork chops

1 servings

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
¼cupRed currant jelly
1teaspoonCider vinegar
A center-cut smoked pork loin; (about 8 chops)*
Mustard sauce: as an accompaniment
½cupDijon mustard
2tablespoonsSugar
¼cupWhite-wine vinegar
cupVegetable oil
3tablespoonsWater; up to 4

Directions

*available at some butchers

To make the pork chops:

Preheat oven to 350F.

In a small saucepan melt jelly with vinegar over moderate heat, stirring, and in a roasting pan brush pork all over with jelly. Cover pork with foil and roast in oven 1 hour. Remove foil and brush pork with pan juices.

Reduce temperature to 325F. and roast pork, uncovered, 15 minutes more. Let pork stand 15 minutes.

Serve pork, cut into chops, with mustard sauce.

To make the sauce:

In a bowl whisk together mustard, sugar, and vinegar until sugar is dissolved and whisk in oil until sauce is emulsified. Whisk in water to thin sauce to the desired consistency. Sauce may be made 1 day in advance and kept covered and chilled. Serve sauce at room temperature. Makes 1½ cups.

Serves 6.

Gourmet February 1994

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