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The Best Skillet Pork Chops Recipe
I love all kinds of pork chops such as baked pork chops and Instant Pot pork chops.
This garlic butter pork chops recipe cooks on a skillet, with simple ingredients of garlic butter sauce, thyme, salt and pepper.
It’s so easy, quick and takes less than 20 minutes from start to finish, and the end result is juicy, tender and absolutely delicious!
This main dish is a great dinner entrée for busy weeknights and best with side dishes.
I used bone in pork chops for this garlic butter pork chops recipe. You can also use boneless but the bone adds so much extra flavors.
This recipe calls for only a few simple ingredients and it’s important to buy good quality pork chops for tender, juicy, moist and flavorful results.
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Ingredients for This Recipe
- Unsalted butter.
- Minced garlic.
- Herb such as thyme or rosemary.
- Salt and ground black pepper.
- Lemon wedges.
Bone-in or Boneless?
I love bone-in pork rib chops or center cut as the fat and bone marrow infuse the dish with extra flavors, making the chops juicier. It’s also cheaper in price.
You may use boneless chops if you want leaner meat as the fat has been removed. The end result will be drier and less juicy.
how to Cook Pork Chops?
To make pan fried pork chops, you can use a skillet and cook on the stove.
It’s an easy dinner that takes 15 minutes to make!
Start out by adding cooking oil and butter to a skillet and then pan-sear the pork until each side turns golden brown. Add the garlic, thyme, salt and black pepper for seasoning and dinner is done.
What Tastes Good with Pork Chop Recipes?
Side dishes goes well with pork, for examples:
- Roasted carrots
- Mashed potatoes
- Roasted potatoes
- Sauteed asparagus
- Sauteed mushrooms
- Roasted cauliflowers
Pork Chop Calories per Serving
This pork chop recipe is low in calories and healthy; it’s 663 calories per serving.
What to Serve with This Recipe?
Serve this dish with pasta or rice. For a healthy meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
For a healthy meal and easy weeknight dinner, I recommend the following recipes.
How to Make Pork Chops?
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Garlic Butter Pork Chops (The Best!)
Ingredients
- 1 lb. bone-in pork chops
- Coarse salt
- ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter (melted)
- 3 sprigs thyme
- 4 cloves garlic (minced)
- 1 pinch salt
- Lemon wedges
Instructions
- Season both sides of the pork chops with salt and ground black pepper.
- Heat up a skillet on medium-high heat. Add the cooking oil, melted butter and thyme. Pan sear and cook the pork chops for about 3 minutes on each side, or until the surface turns light golden brown.
- Add the garlic to the skillet. Continue to flip the pork chops around and saute the garlic until light brown. Add a pinch of salt. Remove the pork chops from heat and serve immediately with lemon wedges.
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Nutrition
Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.
Very very delicious we were shaking our heads the entire meal. Thank you
I don’t understand the carb count. It seems very high since pork chops butter and oil have zero carbs
Delicious! Fixed the chops for supper tonight. Great hit!
Thanks.
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Cool…when do we put in the thyme???
It’s in the recipe card, please check.
Ashleigh, it is early in the directions. “Heat up a skillet on medium-high heat. Add the cooking oil, melted butter and thyme.”
was looking for something easy, quick and different from what I usually do and this hit the spot. Hubby LOVED them and asked if he got more chops this week can I make it again please? =) Big hit in this house and SO easy
I made these pork chops tonight for dinner and they were tender and delicious. I will be using this recipe again soon!
Thanks!
I made this tonight and I enjoyed them thoroughly. Thank you.
Man, this is a good one. I dinked it up by using a bit too much olive oil, but it was still fine. Perhaps it was wrong, but I used skinny boneless chops (I think they are called “breakfast chops”) and put one atop the other with a slab of farmers cheese between them. I’m definitely doing this one again.
Awesome thanks!
I’ve made this with bone-in and boneless pork chops. The boneless chops were not dry. Both cuts turned out delicious. I add extra garlic and thyme because why not.
Made these tonight with the boneless chops to rave reviews. Will definitely be making these again.
Getting boneless pork doesn’t make it less juicy unless you over cook it. You won’t have as much flavor bc the fat is trimmed. But that just means you’re eating healthier and of you cook the pork correctly it will be perfectly juicy.