These Cinnamon Apple Instant Pot Pork Chops are just 373 calories, and from the bestselling cookbook Lose Weight With Your Instant Pot.
This delicious cinnamon apple pork chops recipe is easy to make, and comes with helpful resources to make instant pot cooking easier.
This healthy pork chop recipe tastes like comfort food, but really- it’s packed with metabolism boosting ingredients like apples and cinnamon. Making it a great meal for those looking to trim down, or maintain weight.
We love that this sweet and savory dinner recipe curbs cravings and is extra filling.
These Cinnamon Apple Instant Pot Pork Chops are just 373 calories…
Cinnamon Apple Instant Pot Pork Chops
We’ve supplied you with everything you’ll need to make these easy instant pot pork chops.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll find a nutrition label, helpful instant pot cooking tips, and more in the sections below.
To make this apple and pork chop recipe easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections.
Read through them for helpful resources, or skip ahead to the recipe card.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Ingredients in Apple Pork Chop Recipe (shopping list!)
- How to Make Instant Pot Pork Chops
- Cinnamon Apple Instant Pot Pork Chops (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Apple Pork Chops
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in my email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin these instant pot pork chop recipes to Pinterest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list for instant pot pork chops and apples…
Ingredients in Apple Pork Chop Recipe
You can use any apple for pork chops in the instant pot. We love granny smith as they have a lower sugar and calorie content, plus they hold up better when heated. But you can use your favorite apples, or a combination.
A note on getting different apples- the softer the flesh or the apple, the mushier they will be. So if you like them to still have a little bite, stick the granny smith.
Shopping List for Pork Chops Apple Recipe:
- Olive oil
- 1-inch-thick boneless pork chops
- Salt and pepper
- Granny Smith apples (or your favorite- see notes above)
- Cinnamon stick
- Sage
- Pumpkin pie spice
- Unsweetened applesauce
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of these low calorie recipes for pork chops and apples you want to make. It will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for these recipes for apple pork chops can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make an instant pot pork chops recipe…
How to Make Instant Pot Pork Chops
Over the years, working with different instant pots in different sizes, we have learned each size has its own special needs.
If you are cooking this in a large Instant pot, you should add an additional 1/4-1/2 cup of water. And if you are using a small instant pot, you can stick to the 1/2 cup.
In all cases, it is important to scrape the bottom of your pot after sautéing (always do this!) as tiny browned bits (aka flavor!) can cause the “burn” reading we all dread.
How to Make Cinnamon Apple Pork Chops:
- Set the Instant Pot to “sauté, medium heat.”
- Once it reads “hot,” add the oil and pork chops, sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper, and brown for 5 minutes, turning them over halfway through.
- Transfer the pork chops to a plate.
- Add the apples, cinnamon stick, sage, pumpkin pie spice, applesauce, and water to the pot. Mix to combine and scrape the bottom of the inner pot well (scraping the bottom will help avoid a “Burn” reading).
- Return the pork chops to the pot.
- Cover and cook on high pressure for 10 minutes.
- Let the pressure release naturally for 10 minutes, then quick-release the remaining pressure.
- Remove the Instant Pot Cinnamon-Apple Pork Chops and half the apples to a plate to rest.
- Set the pot to “sauté, medium heat” and cook to boil down the sauce until thickened, about 10 minutes.
- Pour the sauce over the pork chops and apples and serve.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best instant pot pork chops recipe…
Cinnamon Apple Instant Pot Pork Chops
These delicious pork chops were made famous in our bestselling Instant Pot Cookbook.
Now you can find the same recipe with a nutrition label, shopping list, and this printable recipe card that you can bring to the store with you!
Be sure to try our 10 low calorie pork chop sides…
Instant Pot Pork Chops
Equipment
- Instant Pot
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 2 1-inch-thick boneless pork chops
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2 Granny Smith apples sliced
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 sage leaves minced
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 cup water
10 Healthy Pork Chop Sides:
Instructions
- Set the Instant Pot to “sauté, medium heat.”
- Once it reads “hot,” add the oil and pork chops, sprinkle lightly with salt and pepper, and brown for 5 minutes, turning them over halfway through.1 teaspoon olive oil, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, 2 1-inch-thick boneless pork chops
- Transfer the pork chops to a plate.
- Add the apples, cinnamon stick, sage, pumpkin pie spice, applesauce, and water to the pot. Mix to combine and scrape the bottom of the inner pot well (scraping the bottom will help avoid a "Burn" reading).2 Granny Smith apples, 1 cinnamon stick, 2 sage leaves, 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice, 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce, 1/2 cup water
- Return the pork chops to the pot.
- Cover and cook on high pressure for 10 minutes.
- Let the pressure release naturally for 10 minutes, then quick-release the remaining pressure.
- Remove the Instant Pot Cinnamon-Apple Pork Chops and half the apples to a plate to rest.
- Set the pot to “sauté, medium heat” and cook to boil down the sauce until thickened, about 10 minutes.
- Pour the sauce over the pork chops and apples and serve.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Apple Pork Chops
The nutrition below is based off 1 pork chop and about 1/2 cup of apples and sauce.
This recipe for low calorie pork chops is also in our best selling Instant Pot Cookbook. In the cookbook the calories are slightly higher, and this is because our favorite nutrition database has grown and expanded over the years, and now have more options so that the writer can get a more accurate reading. It’s a great website, and completely free… check it out for yourself at Very Well Fit.
Important Note: As a reminder, at Lose Weight By Eating it is our goal to make you healthier, all-natural versions of your favorite recipes… not all will be “diet worthy” depending on the diet you are on. But they will be healthier versions to help curb your cravings.
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