JAMAICAN PORK CHOPS

Check out these tasty, spicy Jamaican Pork Chops.

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 tbsp sunflower or groundnut oil
• Salt and pepper
• 4 big pork loin chops
• 1 onion, roughly chopped
• ½ tbsp Grace Hot Pepper sauce (Buy Now)
• 1 red pepper, deseeded and cut into 2 cm (¾ in) cubes
• 1 yellow pepper, deseeded and cut into 2 cm (¾ in) cubes
• 2 sticks of celery, cut into 2 cm (¾ in) chunks
• 2 cm (¾ in) piece of root ginger, finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 4 tbsp brown sugar
• 3 tsp dry mustard
• Juice of 1 lime
• 150 ml (¼ pint) water or chicken stock
• Boiled rice or Rice and Peas, to serve

DIRECTIONS: 

• Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/gas mark 3.
• Heat the oil in a frying pan, season the chops and brown them on both sides. Put them in an ovenproof dish in which they can lie in a single layer.
• In the fat left in the pan, cook the onion, peppers and celery until they are quite soft and the onion is pale gold.
• Add the ginger and garlic and cook for another minute, then stir in the sugar, mustard, lime and hot sauce.
• Cook for another minute before adding the tomato purée and tomatoes.
• Season, add the water or stock, then stir again.
• Pour this sauce over the chops and cook in the preheated oven for 1½ hours, or until the pork is tender and cooked through, and the sauce has reduced.
• Cover with foil if needed towards the end of cooking if overbrowning.
• Serve with rice or Rice and Peas.
• Enjoy