Pork Chop Marinade

If you’re looking for a pork chop marinade that’s perfect for grilled pork chops or even baked pork chops, this is it! It’s full of flavor, a quick and easy marinade recipe that’s perfect for your family dinner or your summer bbq parties. You can even use this pork chop marinade on chicken and steak!

My mom always made pork chops, and she would just sprinkle them with season salt, pepper, and garlic salt and be done with it. They’re delicious this way, but I loved a marinated pork chop. It’s juicier, more flavorful, and it’s perfect for grilling pork chops. I’ve even used this pork chop marinade recipe on chicken breasts and skirt steak.

HOW LONG TO MARINATE PORK CHOPS:

The key to marinating your pork chops is allowing the marinade to get into the meat. To get the marinade flavored on the outside and a bit in, I let it go for no less than 30 minutes and no longer than 4 hours. Some like to do a marinade overnight, but I prefer to marinate the meat and cook on the same day, especially when citrus or vinegar is involved. This goes for marinated boneless pork chops or bone in pork chops.

ADDING SWEETENERS TO YOUR MARINADE:

The sweetener I use for our marinade depends on how I’ll be cooking it. If I’m making my pork chop marinade with honey, I’ll use an outdoor grill, but if I’m using an indoor grill, I like to use the brown sugar. The honey gets a bit more sticky and harder to clean off of the indoor cast iron grill. Both are delicious!

ADDING SALT TO YOUR MARINADE:

There are different ways to add salt to your marinade. When you do pork chop marinade soy sauce combo you’ll have great flavor, but quite a bit of salt. You can use soy sauce in this recipe, but we prefer to use liquid coconut aminos which have less soy. Don’t have either of those? Just use some salt.

Coconut Secret Organic Raw Coconut Aminos Soy-Free Seasoning Sauce-8 Oz

My family really enjoys flavorful food, but we don’t need all the salt. With liquid coconut aminos (healthy replacement for soy sauce) we still get that salt flavor you’d get with soy sauce.

Coconut Aminos is great for those who suffer from soy allergies and gluten intolerant.

It’s a great soy-free alternative for your favorite marinades, dressings, stir-frys and of course sushi!

Best of all it doesn’t have a coconut flavor, so no worries there!

It’s actually made from the coconut sap and it has a rich salty flavor, with a hint of sweetness. It’s perfect for our recipes where we use soy sauce, especially this chicken egg roll bowl recipe!

If you’re baking your pork chops in the oven, you can pat the marinade off with a paper towel so that there’s not a ton and it doesn’t burn on the sheet pan. We like serving with baked potatoes and asparagus. You could serve with whatever you like! We hope you enjoy this quick and easy marinade recipe.

Pork Chop Marinade Recipe >>

Grilled Pork Chop Marinade

4 Pork Chops
1/4 cup Coconut Aminos or 1/8 cup Soy Sauce
1/2 Cup Olive Oil
1/4 Cup Vinegar
1/4 Cup Ketchup
1/8 Cup Mustard
1 Tablespoon Brown Sugar or Honey
1 Teaspoon Granulated Garlic
1/2 Teaspoon Parsley
1/2 Teaspoon Oregano
1 Teaspoon Pepper

Combine all of the ingredients in a bowl and mix until combined.
Place pork chops into a dish and pour the marinade over them.
Cover pork chops and refrigerate for 1-4 hours.
Once pork chops are fully marinated, place onto the grill and cook until it reaches the desired temperature.

Nutrition calculator includes all marinade, which will not be used.

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