Low Carb Onion & Bacon Pork Chops - Recipe

The wonderful thing about pork chops is they’re like a blank canvas. Why not top them with an array of flavors and textures, packed with silky onions and salty bacon. Create your low carb masterpiece!

April 10 2016 recipe & photo by Carolyn Ketchum, nutritional review by Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE in Recipes, Main course

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4 servingservings

Ingredients

4 oz. 110 g uncooked bacon, chopped
8 oz. (1½ cups) 230 g (350 ml) yellow onion, thinly slicedyellow onions, thinly sliced
¼ tsp ¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp ¼ tsp pepper
1 tbsp 1 tbsp olive oil, for sautéeing
4 (2¹⁄₃ lbs) 4 (1.1 kg) pork chop, boneless, center-cut loinpork chops, boneless, center-cut loin
½ cup 120 ml beef broth
¼ cup 60 ml heavy whipping cream
salt and ground black pepper, for seasoning

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Instructions

Instructions are for 4 servings. Please modify as needed.

Place the bacon in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook for about 10-15 minutes or until crisp, turning occasionally. Transfer the bacon to a medium-sized bowl, and leave the bacon grease in the pan. Maintain medium heat.
Add the onions, salt, and pepper to the skillet. Stir frequently for about 15 to 20 minutes, or until tender. Transfer onions to the bowl with bacon.
Increase heat to medium-high and add the oil. Season the pork chops with salt and pepper, and place in the skillet. Brown on the first side for 3 minutes. Flip the chops, and reduce the heat to medium. Cook for 7-10 minutes, or until no longer pink in the center. Remove to a platter and tent with foil. Maintain medium heat.
Pour broth into the skillet and scrape up any browned bits. Add the cream, and stir together for 2-3 minutes, or until the mixture thickens. Add the onions and bacon to the pan, and increase heat to medium-high. Stir frequently, and cook for about 8-10 minutes, or until mixture becomes golden and creamy.
To serve, top the pork chops with the creamy onion and bacon mixture.

Tip

Green it up! Hearty and rich pork chops are perfectly complemented with a generous helping of fresh, spicy greens, such as arugula.

Note

This recipe was originally posted on"All Day I Dream About Food". Reposted with permission.

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35 comments

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Carole
April 5 2016
How do you keep coming up with such fantastic recipes? Bravo!!
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Sudie
April 12 2016
Making it tonight. Sounds so delicious! These really help to make good choices. Thanks!
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Karen
April 20 2016
Very good had it this evening...it is very rich and filling ?
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Diane
April 20 2016
Made it with soured cream (it was all I had in the fridge), turned out lovely. :)
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Rhonda
April 22 2016
This was the best way I have ever ate pork chops.. I will be making this again! I think it would also be good with beef or chicken..
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Gloria
May 2 2016
I do a similar recipe to this but use lambs liver (lambs fry) sliced thinly. I brown the liver both sides for about a minute then put all back into the pan again and leave to simmer until the cream has reduced. Divine and even the grandkids love it!
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Donna
May 6 2016
Made this using organic chicken breasts, it was absolutely divine! Recipe is a keeper.
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wendy
May 17 2016
Beautiful recipe. I made this last night and both myself and my husband enjoyed it (he's not LC). It was very tasty. I will be making this again. Thank you so much for the wonderful ideas
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Helen
May 20 2016
We don't have heavy cream in the netherlands! Just single
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Jenny
June 7 2016
This was fantastic! Easy to make and so delicious!
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Robert
June 17 2016
Even small onions aren't carb-free; a half of one has almost 3g net carbs. Add a salad and you easily get 5g or more for one meal. Do that for all 3 meals and you are no longer in ketogenic range.
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Sheila
October 28 2016
Absolutely wonderful! Even my husband who is a very picky eater loved them!
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Lorraine
January 9 2017
Hi love your recipes but on some of the ingredients list it will say 3dl heavy cream wondering what dl is?
Lorraine
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Lynn
January 14 2017
It's one-tenth of a litre, so 3dl = 0.3 litres or 300 mls. If you Google dl to ml you'll see a handy converter that works out dls to other liquid measurements.
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Tracy L
August 8 2017
I'm making it now, but I am summering the chops in the bacon, onion, broth and cream mixture. Can't wait to taste it because it smells so good!
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Janet
February 9 2018
Very delicious recipe. Thank you!
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trina
April 26 2018
We have now made this several times. This is a family favourite!! Thanks!!
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Maria
December 30 2018
do you use boneless chops or bone in chops
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Kristin Parker Team Diet Doctor
December 30 2018
You can use either.
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Lisa
March 24 2019
I wasn't that impressed with the cream sauce. I'll do it again, but just eat the caramelized onions with the bacon, no cream. Then, I suppose I'd have to add a little more fat to make it keto. Or else, I'd look for some spices to make it more flavorful.
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julie
June 22 2019
ppl plz stop complicating keto
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donnafa*glie
March 24 2020
We made this tonight with 2 pounds of pork chops. It served 5 adults and 1 child (5). We had a green salad and some skinny green beans cooked in butter with some bacon crumbled on top. We still have left overs that will make two more meals. It was enjoyed by all!
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Nancy
August 17 2020
I served this to my brother-in-law that lives with us and he said, "Nancy, these pork chops are really delicious." I used a red onion because that is what I had. I can't believe I have never in my life made carmelized onions. I doubled the sauce because I knew from experience I would want more and would like it on other things. I am enjoying cooking for the first time in my life... and I just turned 72. It's only 4pm and I am anxious to have some pork chops. I'm going to have fried cabbage with it.
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Britta Patterson
August 17 2020
I served this to my brother-in-law that lives with us and he said, "Nancy, these pork chops are really delicious." I used a red onion because that is what I had. I can't believe I have never in my life made carmelized onions. I doubled the sauce because I knew from experience I would want more and would like it on other things. I am enjoying cooking for the first time in my life... and I just turned 72. It's only 4pm and I am anxious to have some pork chops. I'm going to have fried cabbage with it.
Thank you for sharing Nancy and we are glad to hear that you are enjoying cooking and the delicious food that comes with it!
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Dee
November 10 2020
Wow.... All I can say!
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Timothy
February 13 2021
Made this tonight, super easy and I'll never eat pork chops again without going this way! Loved it!
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Kerry Merritt Team Diet Doctor
February 13 2021
Made this tonight, super easy and I'll never eat pork chops again without going this way! Loved it!
Great! So glad you loved it!
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Belinda
April 2 2021
I love this recipe my kids not so much. Could you freeze the sauce so I can just pull enough out each time for me :)
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Kristin Parker Team Diet Doctor
April 2 2021
I love this recipe my kids not so much. Could you freeze the sauce so I can just pull enough out each time for me :)
Cream based sauces can be more likely than others to "split" when reheating but you can stir it back together and it will still taste the same.
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Cheryl
May 11 2021
I finally found a way to enjoy pork chops.
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Cecilia Sjögren
September 8 2021
the weight listed in the recipes for all the vegetables is that before or after peeling and taking "stuff" out (the pit of an avocado och the seeds in an paprika for example)?
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Kristin Parker Team Diet Doctor
September 8 2021
That may depend on the specific recipe, but generally speaking, it refers to the actual amount of ingredient used in the recipe.
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Lee Edmonds
January 21 2022
Am I reading the amount of meat correctly? This seems to be a more than generous serving of protein...Is it a typo?
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Kerry Merritt Team Diet Doctor
January 24 2022
Am I reading the amount of meat correctly? This seems to be a more than generous serving of protein...Is it a typo?
Hi, Lee! This recipe defaults to 4 servings, but you can adjust this as needed. As keep in mind that this is one of our high-protein recipes.
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Jamie
April 14 2022
It may seem like a lot of time to make but the flavours really do build in the pan, ready for a wonderfully flavoured sauce. (UK spelling)

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