Cast-Iron Skillets Can Be a Pork Chop’s Best Friend

Be sure to use boneless chops; they’re a breeze to cook when quickly seared over high heat in a heavy cast-iron skillet.
Cast-Iron Skillets Can Be a Pork Chop’s Best Friend
Pork chops in a cast-iron skillet. Dreamstime/TNS
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Quick and easy, skillet pork chops make a tasty, comforting weeknight dinner.

Be sure to use boneless chops; they’re a breeze to cook when quickly seared over high heat in a heavy cast-iron skillet. The key, of course, is to buy the right chops. Choose pork from a local farm that raises the slower-growing heritage pork breeds outside in the sun. Their meat is blessed with a little marbling; it’s tastier and more succulent than meat from those raised in confinement.

Beth Dooley, The Minnesota Star Tribune
Beth Dooley, The Minnesota Star Tribune
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From The Minnesota Star Tribune. Beth Dooley is the author of “The Perennial Kitchen.” Find her at BethDooleysKitchen.com. Copyright 2025 The Minnesota Star Tribune. Visit at StarTribune.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.