Apple Smoked Pork Chops on a Charcoal Grill

Apple Smoked Pork Chops Recipe on a Charcoal Grill

By: Andrea Alden

In July of 2015, I shared a recipe for Apple Smoked Pork Chops. It was an easy recipe then, and it still is now. Using your Charcoal Grill to smoke pork chops with fragrant apple wood and finishing them off with a slightly spicy, delicious, butter-maple sauce. Serve with a salad and some smoke-roasted potatoes for a great grilled meal that is on the table in barely more than an hour.

Prep Time
30 min
Cook Time
35 min
Yield
6
Difficulty
Easy

Apple Smoked Pork Chops Recipe on a Charcoal Grill

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Ingredients

Method

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Ingredients

6

thick cut pork chops

¼ cup

Club House La Grille Maple Bacon Seasoning

10

medium potatoes, washed and quartered

1

small onion, quartered

1½ tbsp.

butter, melted

salt and pepper to taste

1 cup

Napoleon Apple Wood Smoker Chips


Sweet & Spicy Maple Sauce

¼ cup

Cattle BoyZ Sweet Chili BBQ Sauce

¼ cup

maple syrup

2 tbsp.

butter, melted

Method
  1. Load the bottom of a charcoal chimney starter with paper, then fill it with charcoal, like Napoleon’s Blackstone. Ignite the paper in the bottom of the starter and allow the charcoal to light – takes about 15 minutes.
  2. While waiting for the charcoal to light, generously season the pork on all sides and prepare the potatoes. To prepare the potatoes, toss the quartered potatoes and onion with the butter, seasoning to taste with salt and pepper. Place them into a grill-safe baking dish.
  3. By now your charcoal should be lit. Pour the charcoal into the grill, keeping the charcoal in a pile to one side of the BBQ. Open the bottom vents of your charcoal grill to the first setting after fully closed. This keeps the grill in the smoking range of temperature – around 225°F. Carefully place the wood chips into the lit charcoal.
  4. Because you are smoking, cooking the pork chops at a lower temperature, you do not need to preheat the charcoal grill at this time. Place the chops on grids that are on the cool side – do not have charcoal under them – of the grill. Place the potatoes over the lit charcoal. Close the lid and allow the pork chops to smoke for 25 minutes.
  5. While the chops are smoking, make the sauce by combining the sweet chili sauce, maple syrup, and melted butter.
  6. Once the chops are nice and smoky, it’s time to heat things up a little. Open the bottom vents on your charcoal grill another two notches and, using heat-resistant gloves, lower the cooking grids so that they are closer to the charcoal. Allow the charcoal grill to preheat a little, about 5 minutes.
  7. Move the potatoes out of the way and sear the pork chops over the direct heat of the charcoal, brushing with the maple syrup mixture until a nice char and grill marks form – about two minutes per side.
  8. Rest for at least five minutes before serving the chops drizzled with any remaining sauce and a side of those smoky-roasty potatoes.

You can also make these Apple Smoked Pork Chops on your gas grill by using the Napoleon Smoker Pipe, the integrated smoker tray and burner on the PRO665 and 825’s, or keep that charcoal flavor by using the Napoleon Cast Iron Charcoal Tray.

For added enjoyment, serve this with a green salad filled with apples, pecans, and feta cheese, topped with a maple vinaigrette (which would also complement the pork chops).

Happy Grilling!

Assemble pork chops and ingredients

Assemble pork chops and ingredients

Smoke using indirect heat

Smoke using indirect heat

Smoke for 25 minutes

Smoke for 25 minutes

Building loads of flavor

Building loads of flavor

Look at that charcoal grill go!

Look at that charcoal grill go!

Lower the cooking grids

Lower the cooking grids

Sear using direct heat

Sear using direct heat

Things are getting delicious now

Things are getting delicious now

Brush with sauce while searing

Brush with sauce while searing

Rest for at least 5 minutes before serving

Rest for at least 5 minutes before serving

Slice and serve with smoky roasted potatoes

Slice and serve with smoky roasted potatoes

Drizzle with remaining sauce

Drizzle with remaining sauce

AndreaAlden
Andrea Alden

I used to be the Sultana of Sizzle, but you can call me Andrea. I have always been passionate about food. Even though I was majoring in Art and Graphic Design, I would frequently be found cooking for my friends and family.

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Assemble pork chops and ingredients

Assemble pork chops and ingredients

Smoke using indirect heat

Smoke using indirect heat

Smoke for 25 minutes

Smoke for 25 minutes

Building loads of flavor

Building loads of flavor

Look at that charcoal grill go!

Look at that charcoal grill go!

Lower the cooking grids

Lower the cooking grids

Sear using direct heat

Sear using direct heat

Things are getting delicious now

Things are getting delicious now

Brush with sauce while searing

Brush with sauce while searing

Rest for at least 5 minutes before serving

Rest for at least 5 minutes before serving

Slice and serve with smoky roasted potatoes

Slice and serve with smoky roasted potatoes

Drizzle with remaining sauce

Drizzle with remaining sauce