Thick juicy smoked pork chops stuffed with a mixture of sausage, peppers and onions are delicious beyond words and you'll want to try these on your family and friends very soon.
Course Entree
Cuisine Hot Smoking
Prep Time 2 hourshours25 minutesminutes
Cook Time 2 hourshours
Total Time 4 hourshours25 minutesminutes
Servings 4-6
Author Jeff Phillips
Ingredients
Thick cut pork chops1 per person with a couple of extras
½gallonof brinerecipe below
1lbof ground breakfast sausage
⅓cupmixture of chopped onionscelery and bell peppers
Jeff's Texas style rub
Instructions
Rinse pork chops under cold water.
Make a brine solution using ½ gallon of cold water and ½ cup of coarse kosher salt.
Mix the water and salt together until the salt is dissolved.
Place the pork chops in a lidded container.
Pour the brine solution over the chops until they are covered.
Cover with a lid or plastic wrap and place in the fridge.
Brine for about 2 hours.
Remove from brine and rinse to remove any extra salt.
Sauté about a 1/3 cup mixture of celery, onions and bell peppers with 1 TBS of cooking oil.
Remove vegetables and brown 1 lb of breakfast sausage in the same pan.
Add the vegetables to the sausage to combine and remove from heat to cool.
Season pork chops with Jeff's Texas style rub inside the pocket and on the outside.
Stuff the chops with the sausage mixture.
Leave the pork chops sitting pocket side up leaning against the side of a foil pan.
Set up your smoker for cooking at 225°F (107°C) using indirect heat.
Place the pan of pork chops on the smoker grate.
Smoke cook the meat for about 2 hours or until they reach 145°F (63°C) in the thickest part.