Name: Orange Pork Chops
Ingredients: 4 pork chops; 1 tablespoon vegetable oil; 2 raw sweet potatoes or 2 1/2 cups canned sweet potatoes; 1 orange; peeled and sectioned; 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Servings per Recipe

Nutrition Facts

Calories : 240

Total Fat : 9 g

Sodium : 220 mg

Total Carbohydrate : 17 g

Dietary Fiber : 3 g

Protein : 21 g

Ingredients

4 pork chops

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

2 raw sweet potatoes or 2 1/2 cups canned sweet potatoes

1 orange, peeled and sectioned

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Wash hands with soap and water.

In a medium skillet, brown both sides of pork chop in vegetable oil.

Peel sweet potato. Cut into 1/2-inch slices.

Place browned pork chops in a baking dish and top with sweet potato slices and orange slices; sprinkle with seasonings. If using canned sweet potatoes, add them half-way through baking pork chops.

Cover and bake for 1 hour or until meat is tender and thoroughly cooked. Internal temperature of pork chops should reach 145 degrees F.

Note

Adapted from recipe Orange Pork Chops, from USDA What's Cooking.