Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, pork chops with tamarind and ginger. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Seasoning pork chops with a paste of fresh ginger, chile, cumin and tamarind gives the brawny meat a deeply spicy, sour flavor that gets more intense the longer it marinates Then the excess marinade is mixed into the drippings to make a heady sauce If you can't find tamarind concentrate (also sometimes called tamarind extract), lime juice will supply the sour notes, though without the same. In a large bowl, combine garlic, tamarind, sambal oelek, ginger, salt, cumin, fish sauce and turmeric. The chops are marinated with a paste of turmeric, tamarind, cumin, chile, garlic, ginger and a touch of fish sauce.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pork chops with tamarind and ginger using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pork Chops with Tamarind and Ginger:
- Prepare 3 garlic cloves, finely grated or minced
- Take 1 tbsp tamarind concentrate (or extract), or use lime juice
- Get 1 tbsp sambal oelek or other chili paste
- Take 2 tsp grated fresh ginger
- Make ready 2 tsp kosher salt, more as needed
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- Make ready 1 tsp fish sauce
- Get 1 tsp ground turmeric
- Get 2 bone-in pork chops, 1 1/2 inches thick (2 pounds total)
- Prepare 2 tbsp coconut oil, grapeseed oil or safflower oil
- Make ready Scallions, thinly sliced
- Make ready Lime wedges for serving
Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine cornstarch and soy sauce until smooth. stir in the honey, garlic and ginger. Add ginger, orange wedge, star anise, apple juice, salt, half of chiles, and ¼ cup brown sugar. Pour in water just to cover pork and bring to a simmer over medium heat. To make the glaze: Place the vegetable oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat.
Instructions to make Pork Chops with Tamarind and Ginger:
- In a large bowl, combine garlic, tamarind, sambal oelek, ginger, salt, cumin, fish sauce and turmeric. Rub mixture evenly over pork, and let marinate for at least 1 hour and up to overnight.
- Heat oven to 400 degrees. Heat oil in a cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat. Scrape the marinade off the pork, reserving it (there will be a tablespoon or two), then place chops in pan and sear on one side until well browned, 2 to 3 minutes. Use tongs to hold pork chops vertically to sear the fat on the edges, another 2 to 3 minutes. Flip pork so browned side is on top and add reserved marinade to pan, stirring it into the drippings.
- Transfer pan to oven and cook to desired doneness. About 8 minutes for lightly pink on the inside (135 degrees).
- Transfer chops to a plate or cutting board and let rest for 5 minutes.
- Slice the meat off the bone and serve slices coated with pan drippings, scallions and lime wedges.
Here is how you cook that. Carefully take the pork out of the oven and cover with the tamarind sauce**. Heat a tablespoon of vegetable oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Add the pork chops and turn to coat. Use tamarind paste once, say in Melissa Clark's latest recipe for pork chops with tamarind and ginger, and you'll want to use it a lot more.
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