Glazed Pork Chops

This dish is based on this recipe of a blog that I really enjoy: Budget Bytes that specializes in cheap recipes.  Maybe in Chile  meat is not too cheap, but in the US it not expensive, at least not when you compare it with other things. For example, these four very thick pork chops cost only 6 dollars, and a pound of cherries cost more than 8, so the cherries stayed in the supermarket andthe chops came home with me.  

This is a sweet dish, because it has sugar, that melts when it gets hot, providing the glaze for the chops.

 

 

 

Ingredients

• 4 thick pork chops
• 1/4 cup of sugar
• 1/2 tsp. of paprika
• 1/2 tsp. of merkén
• 1/2 tsp. of powdered garlic
• 1/2 tsp. of pepper
• 1/2 tsp. of salt
• 1/2 tsp. of dried parsley
• 2 tbsp. of oil
• Fresh parsley

Preheat the oven at 350° F (175° C). Place all the dry ingredients on a dish and cover the chops in the mixture until you have used it all.  Heat the oil in a pan and cook the chops (approximately 3 minutes per side)  and then place in the oven for five minutes, to make sure that they are well cooked. Pass both sides of the chop through the sauce that has formed in the pan before serving,   and decorate with fresh parsley.