Grilled Pork Chops with Spinach and Cannellini Salad
Total time: 30 minutes
Spinach and white beans, a favorite salad combination, served with marinated, grilled pork chops for a simple summer salad, full of heart-healthy foods.
Ingredients:
- 2 - 3 pork chops, about 12oz, 350gr, 12.5oz boneless top loin chops
- 1 cup tomato sauce, 225gr, 8oz
- 3 cloves garlic, 12gr, .42oz
- 3 tbs red wine vinegar, 45gr, 1.5oz
- 3 tbs good olive oil, 40.5gr, 1.43oz
- 1 1/2 tsp dried basil
- 1 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 1 1/2 cups white beans (cannellini), 270gr, 9.5oz, app 15oz can, drained
- fresh spinach for a salad , 4oz, 115gr, 4oz
- 2 tbs fresh marjoram or oregano
- 1/2 cup cherry or grape tomatoes, 90gr, 3.2oz
- 1/2 red onion, 100gr, 3.5oz
- 1 tbs Dijon-style mustard, 15gr, .53oz
- 1 tbs cornstarch (maizena), 8gr, .28oz
Instructions:
- Mince garlic.
- Mix tomato sauce, garlic, 1 tbs oil, 1 tbs vinegar, 1 tsp basil, 1 tsp oregano in shallow baking dish.
- Add chops and allow to marinate while preparing salad.
- Wash and tear spinach for salad.
- Drain and rinse beans.
- Thinly slice red onion.
- Cut tomatoes in half.
- In large bowl mix remaining vinegar, oil, and dried herbs.
- Add mustard and whisk well to combine.
- Add onion, toss well and allow to marinate.
- Tear marjoram leaves off stems, but leave whole.
- Cook pork chops (reserve marinade) on barbecue grill or broil (grill) for 6 - 8 minutes per side, depending on thickness, until done. See techniques for tips.
- Chops can also be pan-fried for about the same amount of time.
- While chops are cooking, mix cornstarch into reserved marinade in a small sauce pan.
- Bring marinade to a simmer over medium heat, stirring until thickened.
- When chops are almost done add beans, marjoram, spinach and tomato to vinaigrette/onions and toss well to combine.
- Arrange salad on plates.
- Put 1 chop next to salad and serve with sauce on the side.
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| Nutrition Information Recipe serves 2 Entire Recipe / per serving Calories: 1476 / 738 Total Carbohydrates: 108 / 54 Dietary Fiber: 27 / 13.5 Total Fat: 67 / 33.5 Saturated Fat: 14 / 7 Cholesterol: 234 / 117 Protein: 110 / 55 Calcium: 475 / 237.5 Sodium: 2276 / 1138 |
General Technical Details and Disclaimer:
Note: Pork chops vary greatly in calories; this assumes top loin chops with fat trimmed but not completely removed. Center cut chops are higher; sirloin cut chops are lower.
Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.
I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it. I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.
My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale
and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/
