These Spice-Rubbed Pork Chops with Mustard Bacon Barbecue Sauce are pork chops with a punch! Boneless pork chops are enhanced with a simple rub, then served with an easy homemade barbecue sauce.
I’m a sucker for a good magazine cover. I see a delicious meal gracing a cover, and I can’t help but want to make it. So when I received my June issue of Cooking Light, I fell in love with the photo of the Spice Rubbed Pork Tenderloin with Mustard Barbecue Sauce, Grilled Corn on the Cob with smoked butter, and Tangy Mustard Coleslaw. I wasn’t cooking that much then because of the pregnancy, so the magazine just kept sitting on top of my kitchen counter. Many times, I tried to put the magazine away, but I couldn’t get myself to do it until I had made that meal. And earlier this month, I finally got around to making this meal that I had been wanting for so long!
As much as I wanted to make the coleslaw, I had some ripe squash and zucchini from the garden, so those were substituted. And I had some boneless pork chops in the freezer, so I used those instead of a pork tenderloin. This was such a satisfying meal!
The barbecue sauce for the pork was everything I had imagined it to be, and I’m sure I’ll be using it again. The pork was a little over-spiced for me, but I’m blaming that on the pregnancy, because I’ve been liking plain flavors over anything really spicy or packed with flavor. But these Spice-Rubbed Pork Chops were my idea of a GREAT summer meal!
Looking for more pork chop recipes?
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Spice-Rubbed Pork Chops with Mustard Bacon Barbecue Sauce
Ingredients
BBQ Sauce:
- 4 oz bacon chopped
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1/2 cup prepared yellow mustard
- 5 tablespoons honey
- 3 tablespoons ketchup
- 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
- 1/4 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
Pork Chops:
- 1 tablespoon light brown sugar
- 3 teaspoons smoked paprika
- 1/2 tablespoon chili powder
- 3/4 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 4-5 boneless pork chops each 1 1/2 inches thick (about 2 1/2 lbs)
Instructions
To make the bbq sauce:
- Cook the bacon in a medium saucepan until almost crisp. If necessary, drain the grease, reserving 1 tablespoon in the pan. Add the onions and cook, stirring often, until softened, about 4 minutes. Add the mustard, honey, ketchup, vinegar, chili powder and cumin. Stir to combine, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer until slightly thickened, 4-5 minutes. Keep warm.
To make the pork chops:
- Heat a grill to medium-high heat.
- In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar, paprika, chili powder, garlic salt, cumin and pepper. Rub the mixture evenly over the pork chops. Place the pork chops on the grill and cook, turning once, until the internal temperature is 140ºF, about 12 minutes total. Remove from the grill to a plate and cover with foil. Let sit for 5 minutes to let the temperature come up to 145ºF.
- Serve the pork chops with the bbq sauce.
~Holly says
What a perfect Sunday Dinner and you used Cooking Light— that makes it even better! 🙂
Sylvie says
What a wonderful sounding meal. Great flavour and texture combinations.
Mochachocolata Rita says
hey this photo isn’t bad at all! hehe
Emily says
It looks good enough to eat! I always have bad photo days . . . sounds like a great recipe!
Jenny says
This dish looks so tasty! Mustard BBQ sauce? Heaven!
Dragon says
This sounds like the perfect weekend dinner. The corn on the cob recipe is amazing.
Valentina says
i love the idea of tangy mustard coleslaw.Sounds just divine with a good kick.
veron says
sounds delicious! I love, love pork!
Peabody says
That sounds like a great sauce….I need a few more slices of bacon of course. 🙂
hot garlic says
Wow Deb, this looks so good. I am so going to make at least the corn, if not the chicken! I just did a hamburger that I haven’t posted yet that has really similar flavor combinations, and it was really good, so I know I would like this.
The smoked corn is so original. I have so been into grilling corn this ‘summer’, and have tried a few herbs and butters but not one like this. That is great that the lime worked out better. Sorry, mine will be lemon though. Lemons are free next door and for some reason limes are $2.00 EACH at the store right now! I’ve had to sub lemons for everything.
Thanks for sharing!
Mary says
yay! a pork recipe! I’m going to need loads of them and your chops look so delicious. That Cooking Light is still sitting on my coffee table!
Practically Perfect... says
Yum! We cooked out with pork chops last weekend – I’ll have to try this recipe the next time around!
Katerina says
I want to know how you are learning about our new camera? I am also new to the DSLR thing and pretty unsure about what I am doing….
Your pork looks good too of course.
glamah16 says
You will get ther with new camera, The meal speaks for itself. Delcious.
noble pig says
I always think it’s cool when the object in the back of the photo is in focus and in front it’s not. It’s so hard to figure out though.
This sounds so yummy…
kat says
Oh man I can see why you wanted to make this dinner! yummy!