Smoked Pork Chop with Cherry Mustard Sauce

Smoked pork chops are a meat which is already cooked, and if you can’t find them you can use a ham steak, but they are worth searching out.  I get mine at the Durham Farmers market from Fickle Creek Farm.  I shouldn’t tell you that because now I may never be able to get them again.

Smoked Pork Chops

Sauce

2/3 c. white wine or apple juice

4 T. good mustard- like Dijon – I used Swedish

3 T. dried cherries – you could also use cranberries – minced

1 T. fig preserves – or any jam like apricot or grape

1 t. honey

1 t. Worcestershire sauce

A couple of red pepper flakes — up to ¼ t. if you like it spicy

Put the wine in a saucepan and put on medium high heat and reduce by almost a half.  Add the mustard and whisk together continuing to cook for one minute.  Add the minced cherries, preserves, honey and Worcestershire sauce and cook another 2 minutes.  Add the pepper flakes and remove the sauce from the heat.  You can do this sauce in advance.

I like to grill the smoked pork chops, but you can also pan fry them.  You are just heating them up.

With the grill on medium high I cook them until they have good grill marks and then flip them over.

When the chops are cooked put them on a plate and spoon sauce over the top and serve.