During the summer we spend a lot of time outside, so making this grilled Hawaiian pineapple pork chop recipe works perfect for us. Especially since you can make the best pork chop recipe with just 5 ingredients. What isn’t to love about that?!
Pantry items will work perfectly with this pork chops with pineapple and brown sugar recipe. Just be sure to have a can of sliced pineapple and fresh pork chops and you will be good to go as the other ingredients are super common to have in your fridge or pantry.
I enjoy serving this pineapple pork chops on a warm summer day. I don’t know if it is the pineapple flavor, or the fact that it grills up perfectly, but this recipe just screams summer.
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make our grilled Hawaiian pineapple pork chops, you need the
- Pork chops
- Salt
- Pepper
- Liquid smoke
- Dijon mustard
- Honey
- Minced garlic
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How to Make Our Grilled Hawaiian Pineapple Pork Chops Recipe
- Mix together the pineapple juice from the can of sliced pineapples, with the brown sugar, soy sauce, and garlic powder.
- Once it is all mixed together pour it into a gallon-sized resealable bag. Give the bag a good shake to make sure the sugar is fully dissolved.
- Then add the pork chops to the gallon-sized bag with the pineapple marinade and close it up.
- Place the bag in the fridge and let the pork chops marinate in the fridge for at least 8 hours, but 12 hours is best!
- When you are ready to cook the pork chops, preheat the grill to medium-high heat and then place the pork chops on the grill once it is hot.
- Use a basting brush and brush some of the marinade on the pork chops while they are cooking to allow the flavors to really seal in while you are cooking.
- Cook the pork chops on the grill for about 6-8 minutes on each side, or until the inside of the pork chops are no longer pink. The time will change depending on the thickness of the pork chop.
- While the pork chops are cooking, place the slices of pineapple on the grill and let them cook until they are warmed all the way through and they have slight char marks on them.
- Then, remove both the pork chops and the pineapple slices when they are done, and serve the pork chops with the grilled pineapple on top.
Recipe Notes
When it comes to marinating meat, it is all about making the best, most juicy and tender meat possible. For this recipe, we use pineapple juice as the base for this marinade. Does the pineapple juice do more than just add flavor? Can it really tenderize the pork? Peter Mitchell at Our EveryDay Life talks about this exact thing in his article on how to marinate pork in pineapple juice. He says pineapple juice does in fact tenderize the pork and gives a great explanation as to why. Which makes sense because this pork chop recipe does turn out perfectly tender.
One way we like to keep the pork from drying out while cooking on the grill is by replacing the juice cooked off in the grill by basting the pork chops with more of the marinade as it cooks. Well, that and of course marinating the pork chops for at least 8 hours.
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Grilled Hawaiian Pineapple Pork Chops Recipe
Ingredients
- 20 ounces sliced pineapple, 1 can, reserve juice
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup soy sauce
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- 6 pork chops
Instructions
- Mix together the pineapple juice (reserved from the can of pineapple slices), brown sugar, soy sauce, and garlic powder together in a gallon-sized resealable plastic bag until all the sugar is dissolved. Add the pork chops and zip closed. Store in the fridge for 8-12 hours (the longer, the better!).
- When ready to cook, preheat grill to medium-high heat. Remove chops from bag and place on grill. Brush pork chops with marinade while they are cooking to let the flavor really soak in.
- Grill until pork chops are browned and no longer pink inside (about 6-8 minutes per side- depending on thickness of chops).
- While chops are cooking, place pineapple rings on grill and cook until they are warmed through and have slight grill marks on them. Serve pork chops with grilled pineapple on top.
Notes
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Wowzer! Those look awesome, perfect barbecue food 🙂
Hi! Really want to try this marinade but it says “1/2 soy sauce” I NEED to know what the measurements are on this lol I can’t wait to try it!!
In your recipe for Grilled Pineapple pork chops you state 1/2 soy sauce. How much, 1/2 cup or 1/2 something else?
These were wonderful. My son who does not like pork loved them. At first he thought they were chicken. All 9 of my family said I can make these again!
Is there anyway you could post a “Print” link with your recipes, or maybe I am missing it?
Our blog has been under construction for a few weeks as we switch over to wordpress. Hopefully the print friendly button is now up and running. Thanks for your patience! -The Six Sisters
1/2 cup of soy sauce.
1/2 cup of soy sauce! 🙂
oh my so yummy looking will be doing this up…….
I planned to bbq these yesterday but was invited to dinner instead, so I’ve had them marinating over 24 hours in the fridge would they still be good for dinner tonight? Or is that too long to marinate? Thanks~!
I think they will be even better marinating longer. 🙂
These are the best!!! Let them marinate longer to get the best flavor. I add ginger to mine and serve with fried rice! YUMTASTIC!
This was super easy to make and super yummy!!
I cooked these tonight on the George Foreman grill. They were easy to make and the marinade was really good!
I don’t care much for pork either, but since we just happen to raise it, I’ve always got some. This is definitely something I’ll try! The marinade sounds delicious.
Stopping by from PinParty today, first time to your blog and I just pinned your pork chops, they look yummy!!! Come join me in Weekends Are Fun Party!!! Wishing you a great weekend, Happy Day to all Fathers in your family!!!
Even though I enjoy your blog, I wish that there was a way to print out just the recipe. Am I missing something somewhere that would allow me to do that? Love your site and your recipes.
Can’t locate your ‘print recipe’ icon…
We are updating our blog. Just click on the “Print” button in the top right corner of the blue box that has the recipe.
We are going through some blog changes, and lost our print friendly button on a lot of the old recipes until we get updated. The grilled pineapple pork chops has been updated with the print button. It’s in the blue box with the recipe in the top right hand corner.
Wow these were shockingly good. I thought with such a simple recipe it’d be kinda bland but it’s not.
This is not about chops sorry but does anybody have a recipe for liver and onions in the air fryer I see everything else just not that so please help me
Our whole family loves this recipe! It is so delicious! Please tell me how long to cook it in the oven when we cannot use the grill. Should we cover it in the oven?