Gluten free cooks want to enjoy food from around the world, in every category. These grilled gluten free Mongolian Pork Chops are a unique fusion interpretation. If you're an adventurous cook and love Asian dishes you're in the right place.
The flavourful marinade on these chops is perfectly complemented with grilled vegetables and hummus. It was originally served with warm pita bread, now I make these chickpea flour wraps for a meal worthy of company.
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Ingredients
Once you've got a well stocked Asian pantry, it's a breeze to make all the recipes that catch your eye and peak your interest.
- Gluten free soy sauce - a staple and hopefully the only kind of soy sauce you keep in your kitchen
- White wine vinegar - Balances the marinade
- Sesame oil - Used as a seasoning this marinade has plenty of it.
- Garlic & green onions
- Gluten free Chinese Black Bean Sauce - I've got black beans in my pantry and I make it in 15 minutes. Faster than a trip to the store (where I can't find it anyway).
- Chile flakes - For a little heat.
- Pork chops - Boneless or bone-in, your choice
See recipe card for exact amounts.
Instructions for Grilling Season
I don't often cook on the barbecue, that's my husbands job. The important points are:
- Learn how long it takes to heat up and pay attention to the temperature
- Use an instant read thermometer to learn how long it takes to cook the exact foods you like to cook
- Keep the grill clean
- Use a grilling sheet to prevent cross contact. Use if for the gluten free foods or the opposite, for the less often cooked gluten-containing foods. Get a system going!
Substitutions & Variations
Lamb Chops - This marinade works well with lamb chops for a nice change.
Lamb Lollipops - Tiny lamb lollipops make an impressive appetizer platter. They are individual bone-in lamb chops cut from a rack of lamb. They have had the meat on the bone cleaned up a bit, "frenched" is the culinary term, so the bone can be picked up off a tray and eaten like a lollipop.
Top Tip for Grilling Season
Double the marinade! Then you've got two options:
- Pour half over more pork chops and put that container right into the freezer. The chops as they freeze and again when they thaw giving you a second delicious, hot off the barbecue meal a second time.
- Put half the marinade into a jar and label it! It will keep in the fridge for a few weeks until you have more chops to marinate.
Gluten Free Mongolian Pork Chops
Ingredients
MARINADE
- ½ cup gluten free soy sauce
- ¼ cup white wine vinegar
- 3 tablespoon sugar
- 3 tablespoon sesame oil
- 2 tablespoon finely chopped garlic about 6 cloves
- 2 tablespoon minced green onions
- 2½ teaspoon gluten free Chinese Black Bean Sauce see notes for recipe
- 1 teaspoon red chile flakes
PORK
- 8 pork chops bone-in or boneless
Instructions
- Combine all marinade ingredients in 2-cup measuring cup.
- Put pork chops in a glass baking dish, or marinating dish, just big enough to hold the meat. Pour marinade over chops. Marinate at room temperature for 45 minutes or overnight in the fridge.
- Preheat barbecue. Remove chops from marinade allowing most of the liquid to drip off before putting them on the grill.
- Cook chops to desired doneness, 5-6 minutes per side. Brush with marinade during the first half of cooking time.
- Cover with foil and let rest 5 minutes. Serve with grilled zucchini, red pepper and hummus for the full fusion experience. Use gluten free pita bread or a chickpea flour wrap to scoop up the hummus.
Notes
Nutrition
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More Recipes Using Chinese Black Beans or Sauce
Once you buy these fermented black beans you'll want more ways to use them.
- This clean-out-the-fridge vegetable stir fry is a year round recipe you can vary based on what you have on hand. The black bean sauce is essential!
- This spring recipe for Asparagus with Black Bean Butter Sauce uses the whole black beans. If you're an adventurous, wing-it kind of cook, use the sauce you made and create something similar.
- Same goes for this recipe for Hoisin Glazed Pork Ribs, it calls for the whole beans.
Cinde Little
A unique recipe and delicious combination. We've been making this recipe year after year as soon as it's grilling season!!