The title does really speak it all! This dish was accidentally produced. I made the error of substituting cocktail sauce for chili sauce when using another recipe as a model. Well, this was by far the best error I’ve ever made. There was the most delightful zip to these pork chops! This kind of error need to occur more frequently!
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr |
| Additional Time: | 3 hrs |
| Total Time: | 4 hrs 15 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 cup soy sauce
- ¾ cup water
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 dash lemon juice
- 4 pork chops
- 1 cup ketchup
- ½ cup cocktail sauce
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground dry mustard
Instructions
- In a saucepan over medium heat, mix the soy sauce, water, brown sugar, honey, and lemon juice. Bring to a boil, remove from heat, and cool.
- Place the pork chops in a large, resealable plastic bag. Pour the soy sauce mixture into the bag, seal, and marinate in the refrigerator for 3 to 6 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Drain the pork chops, and discard remaining marinade. Arrange the pork chops in a baking dish, cover, and bake 30 minutes in the preheated oven.
- In a bowl, blend the ketchup, cocktail sauce, brown sugar, water, and mustard. Pour over the pork chops, and continue baking 30 minutes, to an internal temperature of 145 degrees F (63 degrees C).
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 405 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 72 g |
| Cholesterol | 35 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 20 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 4735 mg |
| Sugars | 64 g |
| Fat | 6 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
We loved it just as it was written! Thank you!
Great taste
I had to make an adjustment to the marinade since I’m out of honey. The best I could do was substitute hoisin sauce. That turned out fine, and I wouldn’t be surprised if honey would have made it too sweet for me. Th e sauce needs to be tweaked a bit so the ketchup doesn’t overwhelm the other ingredients, but the meat came out amazingly tender. I will definitely make this again.
This was good however, all the sauce slid off the pork chop when I removed it from the pan.
I wish I would of checked this recipe out more thoroughly before I made it. My legs swelled terribly from this recipe. This should not be listed as a healthy recipe. The sodium count is 4,735 mg. That is unbelievably high. Yes the dish was delicious, but I will not make this again. Talk about heart disease in the making. I have to give it one star due to the sodium count. If you have blood pressure issues or heart disease to do not make this.
I was unsure about the cocktail sauce portion of this recipe. Instead, I used the original recipe with sweet chili sauce and cooked it in the crock pot. The pork marinated overnight and I cooked it with the marinade in the crockpot for 7 hours. 5 hours in, I spooned out some of the liquid, then poured the sauce mixture over the meat and continued cooking for 2 hours. It was delicious! Maybe next time I’ll be brave and try it with cocktail sauce instead.
Yummy! Made as written – served over rice – family loved. Served with Sweet and Spicy Green Beans from this site and green salad. Great meal.
Didn’t get to marinade & tried the method used by another cook, & it was ok, but think I’ll like it when it sits in marinade longer
We absolutely loved this recipe, some reviews said that it was too sweet so I did cut back the sugar and sweet ingredients a bit, but the tomato moist sweetness on too of the savory pork chops was crazy good!!
Sam liked it
I wasn’t to thrilled with this recipe, the marinade was awesome. The reason for the 2 stars bc the sauce wanted cocktail sauce which my husband and I thought was a huge mistake! We may do this recipe again but only with the marinade!!
I’m giving the recipe four stars because my family rated it a six or seven on a 1-10 scale. I mixed this recipe up with another one and used thin, bone-in chops. They felt it would be better with thicker chops. We will try it again, with the thicker chops. They loved the sauce; especially the cocktail sauce. Thanks for sharing!
Great flavor. I only made about half of the sauce, as it seemed like a lot. Easy to make although it is 4 steps. I would make it again.
I only changed the recipe from the cocktail to the Sweet Chili Sauce. That sauce was yummy–which is why I gave it three stars. The pork chops soy flavor was too strong. I followed all the directions including marinating times. I used butterfly pork chops and cooking them for an hour would have been way too long. I cooked them for 45 minutes and they were still overdone and dry.
We made this with 2 changes. We used Agave Nectar instead of honey since we were out of honey and low sodium Tamari instead of soy sauce as that’s what we prefer. Since most of the marinade went down the sink after marinading I gotta believe that the sodium count isn’t as high as listed but with the low sodium tamari it was even lower than that. Really really liked this and would make again.
Sauce was good, but I did not like the marinade,.
Followed exactly as written. Combination of Flavors was inedible for us.
I had these last night. They were AWESOME. As I was preparing the sauce. I discovered I didn’t have cocktail sauce. It was chili sauce instead. So, I added some horseradish and worchester sauce to the sauce. They turned a great. I will definitely make these again. Also, going to try this sauce on chicken.
I didn’t care for it.
The pork chops were tender. But the taste was gross.
Very good used 6 loin chops no bone enough for 2 meals. (200 cals/chop)