Cuban grilled pork with lime-marinated onions
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Total time: 53 min • Prep: 15 min • Cook: 8 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy
Marinated onions add great flavour and colour to this grilled entrée. They also make a flavourful topping for fish tacos or black beans and rice.
Ingredients
Red onion
1 small, thinly sliced
Fresh lime juice
6 tbsp(s), divided
Cilantro
2 tbsp(s), fresh, chopped
Table salt
¾ tsp(s), divided
Olive oil
2 tsp(s), extra-virgin
Minced garlic
1½ tsp(s)
Dried oregano
1 tsp(s)
Ground cumin
1 tsp(s)
Black pepper
¼ tsp(s), freshly ground
Cooking spray
2 spray(s)
Uncooked lean trimmed boneless pork chop
1 pound(s), four 4-oz pieces
Instructions
1
In a medium bowl, combine onion, 45ml (3 Tbsp) lime juice, cilantro and 1ml (1/4 tsp) salt; let stand until wilted, tossing occasionally, about 30 minutes.
2
Meanwhile, in a zip-top food storage bag (or a glass container with lid), combine remaining 45ml (3 Tbsp) lime juice, remaining 2ml (1/2 tsp) salt, oil, garlic, oregano, cumin and pepper. Add pork to bag (or container); seal bag and turn to coat pork with mixture (or toss in container and cover). Refrigerate at least 30 minutes or up to several hours.
3
Off heat, coat a grill rack or stove-top grill pan with cooking spray; heat grill to medium-hot or grill pan over medium-high heat.
4
Remove pork from marinade; discard marinade. Grill pork, flipping once, until an instant-read thermometer inserted in centre of a pork chop registers 63°C (145°F) (for medium), about 8 minutes total.
5
Transfer to serving plates and let pork sit for 3 minutes; sprinkle with marinated onions.
6
Yields 1 pork chop and about 60ml (1/4 cup) onions per serving.
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