GLAZED SMOKED PORK CHOPS

Glazed Smoked Pork Chops image

Yield Serves 6

Number Of Ingredients 11

1/4 cup red currant jelly
1 teaspoon cider vinegar
a center-cut smoked pork loin (about 8 chops)*
mustard sauce:
as an accompaniment
1/2 cup Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 cup white-wine vinegar
2/3 cup vegetable oil
3 to 4 tablespoons water
*available at some butchers

Steps:

To make the pork chops:
Preheat oven to 350°F.
In a small saucepan melt jelly with vinegar over moderate heat, stirring, and in a roasting pan brush pork all over with jelly. Cover pork with foil and roast in oven 1 hour. Remove foil and brush pork with pan juices. Reduce temperature to 325°F. and roast pork, uncovered, 15 minutes more. Let pork stand 15 minutes.
Serve pork, cut into chops, with mustard sauce.
To make the sauce:
In a bowl whisk together mustard, sugar, and vinegar until sugar is dissolved and whisk in oil until sauce is emulsified. Whisk in water to thin sauce to the desired consistency. Sauce may be made 1 day in advance and kept covered and chilled. Serve sauce at room temperature. Makes 1 1/2 cups.