Boneless pork chops are a miracle dish in the kitchen when you are looking for quick meals to prepare. They brown up in a pan in minutes and go into a very hot oven to finish cooking. In total, even with a sauce, it takes no more than 30 minutes to prepare a delicious meal with them.
If you are not familiar with Za’atar, it is a middle eastern spice blend that has so many amazing flavors including sumac. It is pretty easy to find this in the local grocery stores now too! If you are unable to find it in your store, online ordering is a great way to go and is totally worth the effort.
If you are looking for an amazing way to prepare some boneless pork chops, I definitely recommend giving this a try!
Pork Chops with Za’atar Cream Sauce
A delicious and quick pork chop recipe with a middle eastern twist
Servings: 4 people
Equipment
- heavy bottom pan that is oven proof
Ingredients
- 4 thick cut boneless pork chops the best quality meat you can find
- 2 tbsp za'atar seasoning
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 4 tbsp butter or ghee
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 tsp salt plus more for the sauce to taste
- 1/4 tsp pepper plus more for the sauce to taste
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees
- Now heat a heavy bottom oven proof skillet over medium high heat
- Season your pork chops with salt and pepper
- add your olive oil to the pre-heated skillet
- add your pork chops to the skillet and sear the pork chops on both sides (about 2 minutes on each side)
- After you sear your pork chops, place them in the oven in the same skillet you seared them in until they are fully cooked (the internal temperature of the chops reach 145 degrees or about 10 minutes)
- When they are done cooking, remove the skillet from the oven. Remove pork chops from the skillet on to a plate and tent with aluminum foil to rest for about 5 minutes.
- While the pork chops are resting, place your skillet back on the stovetop over medium heat
- Add your butter and za'atar seasoning and cook for about 2-3 minutes to bring out the flavors of the za'atar in the butter and making sure to scrape down any bits in the pan into the mixture.
- Now add your cream and mix well.
- Cook for about another 1-2 minutes or until the mixture just starts to thicken.
- Place your pork chops nicely on a platter and pour any of the juices from the plate into the skillet and mix well
- Taste for seasoning. Add any salt or pepper that you need (to taste)
- Spoon your za'atar cream mixture over top of your pork
- Serve immediately and enjoy!
