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Crockpot Apple Pork Chops

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Ingredients
  

  • 1 lb Pork Chops You can use bone-in or boneless, but the porkchops with the bone will be juicier and more tender.
  • 1 Apple green
  • 2 large onions caramelized ahead of time
  • 1 cup apple cider
  • 1.5 tsp sea salt
  • 1.5 tsp garlic powder
  • .5 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp thyme dried
  • 1 tsp dijon mustard
  • 2 tbsp butter salted

Instructions
 

  • Caramelize your onions. I like to do this step the day before so that when it comes to making this recipe, I can just add everything to the crock pot all at once and set it. (See Notes Below)
  • Add all of the ingredients, except for the apple, to a crock pot. Give it a good stir and then slow cook on low. If you are using bone-in pork chops, cook for 7 hours. If you are using boneless pork chops, cook for 5 hours.
  • Slice your apple into 1/4" inch thick slices and add it to your slow cooker when you have 1 hour remaining to cook.

Notes

This recipe can be doubled without adjusting the cooking time. Just make sure to double all of the ingredients except for the butter at the end. 
I like to caramelize my onions in a slower cooker. I couple times a year I will put 5lbs of sliced onions in my slower cooker with a little olive oil and butter and then slow cook them overnight. Then, I freeze them in 1/2 silicone containers and I take them out of the freezer as needed. I have a recipe for this on my site "Slow Cooker Caramelized Onions"
If you do not want to slow cook your caramelize onions, you can also just caramelize your onions the night before and then store them in the refrigerator until you use them in this recipe. Or, you can caramelize the onions before you add them into your slow cooker.