Pork Chops and Sugar Snap Peas with Mint Julep Glaze
This recipe makes 2 servings with 217 calories, 3g of protein, and 6g of fat each. This recipe covers 8% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 20 minutes. Head to the store and pick up brown sugar, mint, sugar snap peas, and a few other things to make it today.
Instructions
Stir broth, 3 tablespoons bourbon, sugar,and vinegar in small bowl until sugardissolves.
Sprinkle pork with salt, pepper,and allspice. Melt butter in mediumnonstick skillet over medium-high heat.
Add pork. Sauté until just cooked through,about 4 minutes per side (butter willbrown).
Transfer pork to platter.
Add bourbon mixture to skillet andbring to boil.
Add sugar snap peas andcook until crisp-tender, about 2 minutes.Using slotted spoon, scatter peas overpork.
Remove skillet from over heat.
Addremaining 3 tablespoons bourbon to saucein skillet. Boil over high heat until sauceis reduced to thin glaze and coats spoonlightly, about 3 minutes.
Mix in mint; spoonover pork and serve.
Recommended wine: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Riesling
Pork Chops works really well with Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Riesling. Chardonnay suits simple chops or chops in a butter or cream sauce, dry riesling complements sweet additions like honey mustard or apples, and pinot noir is a safe bet for pork dishes in general. You could try Antica Chardonnay (Mountain Select). Reviewers quite like it with a 4.5 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 29 dollars per bottle.
Antica Chardonnay (Mountain Select)
The 2017 Chardonnay is vibrant and rich with enticing aromas that lead to a firm core of pear, apple and apricot flavors shaded by lightly-spiced oak. On the palate, the wine offers layer upon layer of lingering flavors. The wine highlights varietal purity with elegance and freshness on the palate.The Chardonnay was picked from 4 to 31-year-old vinesfrom select portions of nine vineyard blocks, which areplanted at an elevation of 1,413-1,494 feet. This year’s selection comprised of 10 Chardonnay clones—nine Burgundian and the acclaimed Heritage Weimer Selection—that together create the complexity in aromatics andflavors we seek for our Mountain Select Chardonnay.