Grilled Pork Chop with Apple Sauce
Ben O'DonoghueIngredients:
- 4 thick pork loin chops skin off
- 4 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
- 1 stick of rosemary, leaves picked and roughly chopped
- 4 fresh bay leaves, roughly chopped
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 teaspoon fresh cracked black pepper
- Flaky salt
Apple Sauce
- 4 Red Apples cored and cut into 8th (keep the skin on)
- 1 tablespoon Apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon Sugar
- 1 Star anise
- Salt
Method:
- To make the marinade, combine the garlic, rosemary, bay leaf, balsamic and oil in a bowl. Score the fat of the pork loin with a sharp knife in a crisscross fashion; season with the black pepper. Place the pork in a non-reactive tray and pour the marinade over the pork, cover and allow to stand for 1 hour, turning two or three times.
- Prepare your Barbeque for direct grilling at a medium high heat turning all of your gas burners on.
- Remove the pork chops from the marinade, reserving the marinade in a small saucepan place the remaining marinade over a medium heat and boil until it reduces by half; set aside.
- Place the chops on the grill plate of the barbecue allowing the fat to caramelize and blacken slightly, creating a grill marked pattern allow to cook on one side for 6 minutes then turn and grill for a further 4-5 minutes with the lid down. once cooked remove and rest
- Baste the pork with the reduced marinade.
- Once cooked the meat should be medium well with a touch of pink in the centre
- Serve with the apple sauce and garnish with the bay and rosemary in the marinade sauce.
Apple Sauce
- Place all together in a pot and simmer covered until it breaks up then pass through a food mill or roughly pulse in a food processor then return to the heat and reduce to thicken.
- Season with salt
Our friends at Wine Selectors suggest pairing this dish with a Red Symphony Hill Reserve Shiraz or White Ballandean Fiono 2019
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