The Best Pork Chops Ever

Your New Favorite Pork Chop Recipe

The Best Pork Chop Ever are a tried and true Tipsy Housewife recipe. This one uses simple ingredients like Crispy Oven Fry Seasoning on the bone-in pork chops.

This fries the chops up crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside, right in your oven! You then make a delicious honey mustard glaze that gets drizzled over the top when they are hot out of the oven.

This will be your family’s new favorite pork chop recipe.

Many Reasons They Are So Good

It’s one of the most popular recipes on my site, and to be honest I can understand why. It might seem like I’m tooting my own horn here, but there’s a reason these aren’t called the second best or third best or runner up pork chops.

When made according to the recipe, they’re tender and sweet and spicy and perfect for dinner any night of the week.

The addition of the Oven Fry makes these so simple to prepare and the honey mustard glaze is next level. They fry up in your oven so there’s less mess.

This was one of those recipes that I made on a whim and it came together perfectly. Did I spend years in my kitchen lab testing and refining the perfect pork recipes until I finally emerged with a breakthrough?

Or was it a sudden inspiration delivered on the top of a mountain by some sort of pork angel? While I wish I could say it was as fascinating as that, the truth is much simpler.

Bone In Chops

I like to use bone in pork chops for this recipe because I think they fry up in the oven a lot juicier then boneless chops do. In my experience, cooking these chops this way, with the bone, yields a juicier chop that is still crispy on the outside.

One of the other recipes that everyone seems to love that also uses Bone In Chops is my recipe for Black Pepper and Paprika Pork Chop In A Smothered Gravy. This recipe is absolutely heavenly.

If you also make these, be sure to serve them with my Creamy Mashed Potato Recipe. The gravy from the chops NEEDS these mashed potatoes.

The chops I use in this recipe are about one inch thick typically. The cook time I have for these in the recipe card are for one inch thick chops.

Please keep in mind that if you use thinner or thicker chops, the cook time will need to be adjusted.

Your Oven Matters

I also like to remind people that cook times are sometimes specific to each oven. Things matter when it comes to ovens.

I use a gas oven at home in Chicago and an electric oven when I am up in Michigan. The way things cook definitely differs from gas to electric.

The age of your oven also matters. Temperatures in ovens can also vary many degrees from what your temperature gauge says on your range.

I highly suggest checking out my post on Checking Your Oven’s Temperature.

The article on checking your oven will help you get the cook times down. I also recommend getting a decent meat thermometer as well.

Oven Fry

I am always surprised so many have never heard of Oven Fry. This ingredient is found very easily at most major grocery stores.

People ask if they can use Shake and Bake instead of the Oven Fry and I say yes, but I DO prefer the oven fry. I think it is crispier.

Off Brand Oven Fry

I DO buy Aldi’s brand of oven fry and I like it very much. They do not always have the pork variety, but I have used the chicken one ON pork and it has been just fine.

I have not tried other off brands but give it a try and let me know.

Substitute For Oven Fry

I know some readers live out of the United States and cannot get the products mentioned above. I have heard that many people sub seasoned Panko crumbs for the oven fry or shake and bake.

They said the recipe comes out delicious.

Set Yourself Up For Success

When making this recipe you just need to be a little organized. Set up your breading station and then a pan to add the breaded chops to.

This will make the recipe THAT much easier to assemble.

The Sauce IS The Boss

The honey mustard glaze that you drizzle over these crispy baked chops is just dreamy! I always make more than what the recipe calls for because it is so delicious.

I drizzle this on as the chops come out of the oven. The sweet sauce gets in all the crevices of those crispy chops.

This just makes the perfect texture and flavor profile.

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