Healthy & Delicious: Pork Chops with Tomatillo and Green Apple Sauce

From Recipes Editor’s note: On Mondays, Kristen Swensson of Cheap, Healthy, Good swings by these parts to share healthy and delicious recipes with us. Take it away, Kristen! [Photograph: Kristen Swensson] Sometimes, creating healthy recipes takes quite a bit of planning. There are ingredients to be bought, quantities to be recalculated, and substitutions to be made. Some fail. Others succeed. Many an evening, I emerge from the kitchen tired but victorious, content that another nutritious meal can be shared with the interweb. Sometimes, it’s raining and pork chops are on sale. Pork Chops with Green Apple and Tomatillo Sauce, originally from the June 2004 issue of Gourmet is a lovely twist on the American classic. The pork is flavored by a cumin and coriander rub, which melds wonderfully with the tart, slightly spicy apple topping. As center cut pork chops are pretty lean, it’s on the lighter side calorie-wise, too. I made four chops: two were brined for eight hours beforehand, and two were straight from the fridge. In a surprising twist, there was little difference in the resulting flavor and moistness. I chalked this up to two things: the pork was sliced fairly thin and cooked…

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