Crock Pot Honey Garlic Pork Chops

These Crock Pot honey garlic pork chops are tender, juicy, and smothered in a sticky-sweet garlic sauce that clings to every bite exactly the way God and Crock-Pot intended. Toss everything in the slow cooker, walk away, and come back to an easy pork chop dinner that practically handles itself. Bless modern appliances and their willingness to work unsupervised.

Table of Contents

• 🥰 Is this crock pot honey garlic pork chops recipe for you?
• 🧾 Ingredients
• 📖 Recipe
• 🔪 How to make crockpot honey garlic pork chops
• 😱 What can go wrong (and how to fix it)
• 📚 More slow cooker pork recipes
• 🍽️ What to serve with honey garlic pork chops
• 💬 Comments

🥰 Is this crock pot honey garlic pork chops recipe for you?

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who love their crockpot like a 1950s housewife loves her pearls, and those who haven't yet realized its full potential. If you're in the second group, allow me to introduce you to Crock Pot Honey Garlic Pork Chops.

This recipe is for you if:

• Dinner needs to behave while you're busy. Get everything into the crockpot, turn it on, and go deal with the other 47 things demanding your attention.
• You love a good sauce. The honey garlic sauce is sweet, savory, garlicky, and absolutely destined for a pile of mashed potatoes.
• Your pork chops could use a personality upgrade. This is for those packages of chops sitting in the freezer because you bought them on sale and haven't felt particularly inspired since.
• You want leftovers people will actually eat. The pork chops reheat beautifully in the sauce, which means tomorrow's lunch is already handled.

🧾 Ingredients

You probably have most of what you need for these honey garlic pork chops in the crock pot already hanging around the kitchen. Here are the key ingredients and a few things to know before you start.

• Bone-in pork chops - Bone-in chops stay juicier in the slow cooker and have more flavor. Look for thicker chops if you can; those skinny little fellows are far too easily bullied by several hours in a crockpot.
• Honey - Adds sweetness and helps give the sauce that sticky, glossy finish. Regular clover honey is just fine. Save the expensive artisanal bee nectar for your biscuits.
• Ketchup - Gives the sauce body, sweetness, and a little tang. Yes, ketchup. Stop clutching the pearls and trust the process.
• Soy sauce - Brings the salty, savory flavor that keeps all that honey from turning this into pork chop candy.
• Garlic - Fresh garlic, because honey garlic pork chops should contain enough garlic to justify the name.
• Onion powder, ginger, salt, and pepper - The supporting cast. Ginger adds just a little warmth while the rest round out the sweet and savory flavors.
• Cornstarch - Thickens those delicious crockpot juices into a proper sauce instead of leaving you with pork chops swimming around in flavored water.

📖 Recipe

🔪 How to make crockpot honey garlic pork chops

This is about as complicated as putting on lipstick at a stoplight. Mix the honey garlic sauce, pour it over the pork chops, and let the crockpot take it from there.

1. Whisk the sauce ingredients together until smooth and thoroughly acquainted.
2. Add the pork chops to the bottom of a greased slow cooker. If you have a few extra minutes, sear them in a little oil first for extra flavor. If you don't, nobody from the Crockpot Police is coming.
3. Pour the honey garlic sauce over the chops, making sure everybody gets a generous share.
4. Cover and cook until the pork chops reach 145°F in the center on an instant-read thermometer. Pork chops can go from tender to regrettable when overcooked, so trust the thermometer rather than the clock.
5. Thicken the sauce. Remove the pork chops and whisk the cornstarch with 2 tablespoons of cold water. Stir it into the sauce, return the chops to the crockpot, and cook on HIGH for about 15 minutes, or until the sauce is thick and glossy.

Sear the pork chops in hot olive oil in a large skillet (cast iron or nonstick) over medium-high heat. They only need about 1-2 minutes on each side, or until golden brown. Although it's not required, this is a quick and delicious way to add more flavor and lock in the pork's moisture.

😱 What can go wrong (and how to fix it)

Slow cookers are wonderfully forgiving, but pork chops have opinions. Here's how to keep dinner from staging a small rebellion.

🧄 The sauce is too thin. Slow cookers trap moisture, so this happens. Remove the chops, stir the cornstarch with a little cold water, whisk it into the sauce, and cook on HIGH until thickened.

🧄 The sauce is too salty. Soy sauce can get bossy, which is why I use low-sodium here. Don't add extra salt until you've tasted the finished sauce.

🧄 The sauce is too sweet. Honey is supposed to be noticeable here, but it shouldn't taste like the pork chops wandered into the dessert course. A splash of soy sauce or a little vinegar will bring things back into line.

🧄 The pork chops are tough. This usually means they were overcooked, not undercooked. Pork chops aren't a pot roast and won't necessarily get more tender if you leave them in there until the next presidential administration. They only need to cook to 145℉.

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🍽️ What to serve with honey garlic pork chops

Crock Pot honey garlic pork chops are exactly the kind of dinner worth keeping around: easy, dependable, and covered in a sauce that makes mashed potatoes feel less like a side dish and more like a requirement. Add something green if it makes you feel responsible, spoon on plenty of that honey garlic sauce, and call dinner handled.