These Thai Pork Chops are succulent and slathered in a finger lickingly good coconut sauce! These are so quick and easy to make, they’ll be a weeknight regular for sure.
Why These Thai Pork Chops Are So Good
- Easy to make – just 20 mins.
- A delicious coconut sauce with garlic and ginger.
- All done in one skillet.
- Succulent pork chops!
Ingredients
- Pork chops
- Salt & pepper
- Sugar
- Coconut milk
- Fish sauce, soy sauce, Thai chili sauce
- Lime juice
- Garlic cloves, fresh ginger
- Red onions, bell peppers, tomatoes
- Cilantro
How To Make These Thai Pork Chops – Step By Step
- Season both sides of each pork chop with salt and pepper.
- Prepare the sauce: In a large bowl, whisk the coconut milk, fish sauce, soy sauce, lime juice, chili sauce and sugar until it is smooth and creamy.
- In a large sauté pan over high heat, add cooking oil and swirl to coat the bottom of the pan. When the pan is very hot, add the pork chops and sear both sides, about 2 minutes each side. Remove the pork chops when they are about halfway cooked through and set aside.
- Add the remaining of the cooking oil to the pan and swirl to coat. Add onions, pepper and tomatoes and saute for about a minute. Add the garlic and ginger and cook for another minute, until the ingredients become fragrant. Pour the coconut milk mixture into the pan and stir all to combine. Bring to a simmer and then turn the heat to medium.
- Nestle the half-cooked pork chops into the sauce. Cook for 2-3 minutes, or until the pork chops are cooked just a shade of blush pink in the center and the sauce has thickened. Serve immediately, spooning sauce and vegetables over the pork chops.
Thai Pork Chops – An Easy One Skillet Meal
Not only are these pork chops wonderfully flavored with an addictive sauce, but they’re also so easy to whip up! Just 20 mins and you’re done! You can get it all done with one skillet, just cook up the pork, set it aside and then make the sauce in the same pan. Pop the pork back in for a couple of minutes – done!
What To Serve With These Thai Pork Chops
Coconut rice goes perfectly with these Thai Pork Chops. Heat a saucepan over medium-high heat and add rice, coconut milk, water and salt. Stir, then bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, cover and let cook for 15-18 minutes, until liquid is absorbed. Fluff with a fork, then stir in coconut oil.
Pork Chops
Top Tips For Thai Pork Chops
- Go for bone in pork chops, to avoid dry chops.
- Cook the chops until they are a shade of blush pink in the middle.
- Serve with coconut rice.
- Serve immediately
Thai Pork Chops in Ginger Coconut Sauce Recipe Video
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- Pork Belly Lettuce Cups Recipe
- Sous Vide Pork Belly Recipe
- Pork and Spinach Wonton
- Hungarian Pork Stew Recipe, Guest Post by The Watering Mouth
Have you tried this Thai Pork recipe? Feel free to leave a star rating and I”d love to hear from you in the comments below!
Thai Pork Chops with Ginger Coconut Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 pork chops about 3/4 inch thick
- salt and pepper
- 1 can coconut milk
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1 teaspoon Thai chili sauce optional
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 tablespoons cooking oil divided
- 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
- 2 garlic cloves finely minced
- 1/2 red onion sliced
- 1 red bell pepper sliced
- 2 tomatoes cut into 8 wedges each
- 1 handful cilantro chopped
Instructions
- Season both sides of each pork chop with salt and pepper.
- Prepare the sauce: In a large bowl, whisk the coconut milk, fish sauce, soy sauce, lime juice, chili sauce and sugar until it is smooth and creamy.
- In a large sauté pan over high heat, add cooking oil and swirl to coat the bottom of the pan. When the pan is very hot, add the pork chops and sear both sides, about 2 minutes each side. Remove the pork chops when they are about halfway cooked through and set aside.
- Add the remaining of the cooking oil to the pan and swirl to coat. Add onions, pepper and tomatoes and saute for about a minute. Add the garlic and ginger and cook for another minute, until the ingredients become fragrant. Pour the coconut milk mixture into the pan and stir all to combine. Bring to a simmer and then turn the heat to medium.
- Nestle the half-cooked pork chops into the sauce. Cook for 2-3 minutes, or until the pork chops are cooked just a shade of blush pink in the center and the sauce has thickened. Serve immediately, spooning sauce and vegetables over the pork chops.
Nutrition
With my friend, Ray Lampe’s new book, Pork Chop: 60 Recipes for Living High on the Hog, we’ve been having fun playing with porky recipes.
Ray lives close by, and I’m lucky enough to see him a couple of times a year. He’s quite possibly the most entertaining friend I have. For some odd reason, women are attracted to men who cook, especially BBQ. And somehow, Ray is always in the middle of it all.
Ray’s book features creative recipes, all celebrating the pork chop:
Pork Chop Noodle Soup (homemade pork stock, pasta, thyme, basil)
Pork Chop Carnitas (garlic, jalapeño, lime, orange)
Broiled Pork Chop with Pineapple Chutney
Buffalo Hot Chop Sandwiches (blue cheese, Frank’s Red Hot Sauce, buns)
Arroz con Peurco Chops (saffron, bell pepper, garlic, onion, rice)
Pork Chops Saltimbocca (prosciutto, sage, white wine)
Ray’s original recipe for the dish I’ve cooked is Thai Pork Chops in Banana Leaves – I’ve modified the recipe to be sans banana leaves, since it can be difficult to find fresh banana leaves at the market. I’ve also added more vegetables to make it a complete meal once served over rice. Such wonderful flavors! If you love Thai food, this is a super easy recipe to make. It’s not spicy (though you can add more chili sauce if you’d like!)
Buy Ray’s book: Pork Chop: 60 Recipes for Living High On the Hog
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Hi, food is an essential item for human beings. So it is good to eat healthy and delicious food. I always search for new recipes to add some new and delicious tastes. I found this recipe perfect to eat. Thanks for sharing!
Great combination of flavours I used a splash of willybum sauce in mine worked great with the lemon garlic oyster butter
really awesome
Wish there was a way to make this in a slow cooker/crock pot, but the coconut milk would not survive for hours, right? I’ve lately gotten attached to such dinners on Sunday.
Any suggestions?
Hi Heather – the coconut milk would be fine, but I’ve never made slow cooker pork chops before – I usually just cook on stove. I would double the sauce for the slow cooker. The sauce would be delicious with whatever meat you add in the slow cooker!
This is just what I was looking for! I love ginger and coconut milk, juice, oil – you name it! I’ve had a taste for pork lately and wanted to try the ginger/coconut flavor mix. It was fabulous! I will definitely be making this again.
Thank you so much!
Hey, I tried your recipe last week and was ordered to remake it again this week because it was liked so much! I made a couple of alteraintions in that I use pork steaks which I fry first then leave to rest while i make the sauce, to which I add fresh chilli & mushrooms and finely chop the onion, then serve it with baby new potatoes and fresh asparagus which I fry in butter with sea salt & fresh ground black pepper. But the sauce is definitely the star of the show. Thank you for posting this recipe.
John,
Sussex, England.
Really Yummy Awesome
Thanks for the recipe! This type of cooking is also popular in my country, we call it “ginataan” meaning it’s been cooked in coconut milk. It’s really creamy and delicious.
The Sweet Side
Well the idiots in control in Tennessee banned wild hog hunting a few years ago so we travel down to a place just North of you in Cedar Key. Last time Trevor bagged 3 of them. Finishing up some of the last of that next weekend and I’m disappointed we didn’t have any processed into chops this time.
Pffft – I’m not attracted to Dr BBQ at all (ha ha) but he is one bad ass pitmaster!
I made this recipe last night and it was very good. A definite keeper!
I have made a dish in the past which was similar. Instead of pork you make the vegetables and coconut milk mixture and then throw raw peeled shrimp in and allow them to poach in the coconut milk for a few minutes. An interesting variation.
Thanks for sharing this recipe!
usually, thailand cuisine spicy taste right?
I love this recipe. Tonight i will prepare it. Thank you steamykitchen
I love this recipe. Tonight i will prepare it.Thank you steamykitchen
The ginger coconut sauce is great! It makes the pork chops much more delicious!
I’ve found that for recipes where the pork chops are stewed or braised that I now use pork steaks divided in half instead. They are perfect for long cooking, and I might try doing this with this recipe and cooking a few minutes longer.
A lot cheaper and I think just as good. I do, however, trim away much of the fat. I get them from my butcher. I try to stay away from supermarket meat.
I did this last year with an ATK or Cook’s Country recipe for stove-top barbecued pork chops and it was just splendid!
Great idea to use pork steaks!
Wow. Looks fantastic Jaden. Love the coconut sauce combined with pork!
Looks really delicious! I will also try this! I hope my mom will like it since she love Thai foods.
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Looks wonderful! Just wondering if you can use light/reduced fat coconut milk in this recipe?
Yes of course!
I made this recipe last night and it was very good. A definite keeper!
I have made a dish in the past which was similar. Instead of pork you make the vegetables and coconut milk mixture and then throw raw peeled shrimp in and allow them to poach in the coconut milk for a few minutes. An interesting variation.
Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Great variation! I also love to add in some bean thread noodles or thin rice noodles to the dish as well.
I noticed the chili sauce was not used in the video for the PORK CHOPS IN GINGER SAUCE recipe. Does that ingredient make it spicy, therefore optional?
Yes! Sorry about that! The chili sauce is optional.
Jaden, I can’t wait to see your video on butchering the hog that Scott “hunted”. Using every part of the hog.
I’m totally going to try this!! I’ve never made anything like this with pork chops! All of my favorite ingredients. Thanks for the recipe!
Hmmm. More vegetables. I never thought of that 🙂 Thanks for the nice plug Jaden. I hope all is well with you.
Oh wow, wild pork, that is so great. You should cure a leg! I bet the meat is delicious. I had no idea there were wild hogs in Florida.