Mojo Loin Chops

The original marinade recipe came from Steven Raichlen's "How to Grill" cookbook. He used it to marinate whole pork tenderloins.

I buy whole pork loins when they're on sale and then cut them into chops and freeze them. Since I had plenty of loin chops on hand I decided to use them for this recipe. I adjusted the ingredients, to better suit our tastes.

Mojo Marinade Ingredients

Approximatley 1/4 cup of olive oil.

10 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced

2 teaspoons ground Cumin (or to taste)

1/2 cup fresh squeezed lime juice

1/2 cup orange juice

1 teaspoon Kosher salt

Freshly ground black pepper, to taste

1/4 cup water

1 tablespoon of freshly chopped oregano

1/4 to 1/2 cup of fresh chopped cilantro

Pork chops or pork tenderloin.

Heat the olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the sliced garlic and cook until it starts to brown lightly. Add the cumin, lime juice, orange juice, water, salt and pepper. Bring to a rolling boil. Remove from the heat and add the oregano and cilantro. Stir and allow the mixture to cool to room temperature. Place pork in a non metallic dish or a large ziploc bag. Pour about half of the marinade over the meat and refridgerate at least 3 hours. Reserve the rest of the marinade to use a sauce when serving, just reheat it just before the chops are done. Grill.

For the onions all you need is

One large sweet onion such as a Vidalia

Small amount of olive oil

Salt and pepper

Slice the onion into large rings about one half inch thick. Insert a skewer all the way through the onion, this will hold the rings together for easy grilling. Brush the slices with olive oil and salt and pepper to taste. Grill.

For the tomatoes check out my roasted tomato recipe. This time I used small slicing tomatoes and Cherry tomatoes which I cut in half.  I also added garlic, hot banana peppers, salt, pepper, fresh basil and a drizzle of olive oil. We cooked them on the grill.

Enjoy!