Someone who saw the Coca-Cola Ham recipe here sent me a recipe for pork chops using Coke. She said it’s a week night favorite and popular in the South and, best of all, fast. You can count the ingredients on one hand.
It looked intriguing but awfully sweet, with Coke in the sauce and brown sugar on top of the chops. I made a small amount of sauce to see and, while delicious, it is too sweet for me. So I changed one ingredient and omitted another. It smelled so good during the last few minutes of baking I could hardly stand it.
The recipe serves eight, but with two chops I made only one-fourth of the sauce and there was plenty of it. Both versions follow.
Coca-Cola Pork Chops
[my changes are in brackets]
8 [boneless] pork chops
1 cup ketchup [chili sauce]
1 cup Coca-Cola, room temperature
brown sugar for sprinkling [optional]
salt and pepper
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine Coke and ketchup [chili sauce].
Place pork chops in baking pan and season with salt and pepper. Pour sauce over. Sprinkle with brown sugar.
[Season both sides of chops and place into an oven bag, floured according to package directions. Pour sauce over chops, seal and snip bag and place into baking pan.]
Bake uncovered 30-35 minutes or until chops are tender. [Spoon sauce over to serve.]
Serves 8
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I wish my Dad was still with us — he put Coca Cola on everything (including his breakfast cereal), and being a Southern gentleman I think he would have loved these chops. I’ll give them a try and enjoy them for him!
Well it’s my turn to cook (yuck) and there are pork chops thawed. So I guess I’m off to the store to look for some Coke Classic – none of that diet stuff for me. Who knows? This may even get me back into my husband’s good graces.
Keep cooking …
@ lin – I like that idea. I think he would too.
@ brightfeather – I used Classic too. I hope this worked out for you.
I wish I had gotten pork chops for this week. I think those sound good.
Now, you KNOW, I’m making the sweet version.
Yep, if we cooked together we’d never argue over the sugar!