Recipe: Applely Pork Chops (using apples and apple butter)

APPLELY PORK CHOPS

2 tablespoons olive oil
1 2/3 cups chopped onion
2 medium tart apples
1/4 cup unsweetened apple butter
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 small pork tenderloins (about 1 1/2 pounds total)
2 large cloves garlic, minced
1 cup full-bodied red wine
1/2 cup sparkling apple cider

Heat nonstick pan large enough to hold all ingredients, until it is very hot. Reduce heat to medium high, and add the oil and the onion. Saute until it begins to brown.

Wash, core and coarsely chop apples, and add to onion as it cooks.

Mix apple butter and mustard. Wash, dry and cut the tail from the pork. Slice remaining pork into 1-inch-thick pieces, and slather with the apple butter-mustard mixture.

When the onion and apple have softened, add the garlic and cook for 30 seconds. Push the onion mixture to one side.

Add the pork, and brown well on both sides.

Add the wine and cider, stir and cooka down a little. Reduce heat; cook a minute or two longer, until pork is only slightly pink.

Servings: 4
Adapted from source: Kitchen Suppers: Good Food to Share with Good Friends by Alison Becker Hurt