The Best Baked Garlic Pork Chops Recipe Ever
The Best Baked Garlic Pork Chops Recipe Ever is the best oven baked pork chop recipe ever - perfect rich, tender, juicy garlic baked pork chops that are incredibly easy and restaurant quality. With tons of tips for juicy baked pork chops, how to bake pork without drying it out, and how long to bake pork chops for perfectly tender pork!
Servings: 4 people
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Ingredients
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 3 tbsp lemon juice divided
- 4 pork chops 1/2" thick boneless chops - NOT extra thick or super thin
- 1 tsp celtic sea salt
- 1 tsp fresh cracked pepper
- 3 tbsp butter or olive oil
- ½ lemon sliced into thin rounds
- 10 cloves garlic minced
- 1 tbsp parsley fresh cut, to garnish
Instructions
- Add lemon juice, 2 tbsp olive oil, garlic powder, pork chops, salt, and pepper to a ziploc bag and marinate for at least 3 hours, and up to overnight.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Pat pork chops with paper towel to completely dry from any moisture from marinade.
- Season generously with salt and pepper.
- Heat a heavy cast iron pan (or oven-safe heavy pan) on medium high until very hot.
- Add butter or olive oil until melted and foamy or light and shimmery.
- Add in pork chops, without crowding the pan.
- Cook until browned on one side - about 3 minutes.
- Add garlic, lemon slices, lemon juice to pan as you sear the other side.
- As pork chops brown on the other side, stir garlic slightly and ladle butter/oil, lemon juice, and garlic from pan over the pork.
- When chops are browned on both sides, transfer to oven and cook until internal temperature reaches 145-150 degrees, about 25 minutes for a thick pork chop.
- For thin pork chops, only 5-10 minutes in oven might be needed. Use thermometer to gauge how close your pork is to being fully cooked since chops can vary so much!
- If you go by the older guidelines, it used to be 160 degrees, but the USDA now says 145 is good. Note that pork can still sometimes look a touch pink even when fully cooked, so go by the temperature.
- Let rest 5 minutes before serving.