Incredibly tender Slow Cooker Hawaiian Pork Chops will make your mouth water with sweet and tangy Hawaiian sauce and juicy warm pineapple!
Helloooooooo Slow Cooker Sunday! Oh. It’s actually called Super Bowl Sunday? Whoops.
Do you mind if for the sake of my dignity we just pretend that it’s really Slow Cooker Sunday instead?
Kthanks. You da best.
This recipe is a proud proud moment for me. Are you familiar with that satisfaction you get from seeing something from start to finish? The kind that happens when you come up with an idea, make it happen, and are one hundred and ten percent happy with the finished product?
That is the joy that I am feeling today with these pork chops. It started out with, hey I really want to make some pork chops in my beloved slow cooker. With a sweet and tangy sauce. and pineapple. and cilantro. YESSSSSSS.
It happened and it was miraculous. Absolutely, insanely tasty and perfect. And it’s extremely simple so let me walk you through it…
First you just need to whisk together the sauce. Add that, the pork chops, and some pineapple slices to your lightly greased slow cooker. Cover and set it to high or low, depending on how long you’re wanting to let it cook. Now when you make that sauce in the first step, I’ve included directions for adding the corn starch slurry. This will help the sauce thicken as it cooks BUT if you like a really thick sauce (I do!) then you could hold off adding that until the end.
If that’s the case here then all you have to do is add the 1/2 cup water to the sauce mixture at the beginning. Let it cook (4-6 hours depending on your cooking temperature) and just before serving you will transfer the liquid from the crockpot to a sauce pan on the stove and bring the mixture to to a boil. Stir together the corn starch with 2 tablespoons of cold water til it dissolves, then stir into the boiling sauce and it will thicken up quickly. Pour all of that sticky saucy goodness back in your slow cooker and that’s it! A thicker Hawaiian sauce for your super tender pork chops!
You can serve up the pork chops just like that, but I love love love them over a bed of steamed white rice and sprinkled with fresh cilantro. Annnnnnnd that’s pretty much it! One heck of a tasty meal with minimal prep and cleanup. You can’t beat that!
What people are saying about this Slow Cooker Hawaiian Pork Chops
“This is one of the easiest and best recipes I’ve made of off using Pinterest. I’m so glad I found it, because it is a new family favorite. This is how pork chops were meant to be eaten. Probably going to try it out on some chicken too. Thank you thank you for sharing!!!” – Jacqueline
“All I can say is yummy yummy yummy so juicy pork chops fall apart great recipe.” – Ann Marie
“I made this for dinner tonight and it was seriously so delicious! This will definitely be something I make again. My family loved it.” – Amanda
Slow Cooker Hawaiian Pork Chops
Ingredients
- 2 pounds pork chops - (see note)
- ½ cup soy sauce
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 1 15-ounce can pineapple slices - (including liquid), divided
- 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- ½ cup water
- 3 tablespoons corn starch
- cooked rice and chopped cilantro for serving
Instructions
- Whisk together the soy sauce, brown sugar, ketchup, the liquid from the can of pineapple slices (save the pineapple, you’ll use it in step 2), rice vinegar, and minced garlic. Whisk together the cold water and corn starch til dissolved. Stir into the sauce mixture.
- Lightly grease your slow cooker. Pour half of the sauce mixture into the slow cooker. Place pork chops in the slow cooker along with the pineapple slices. Pour the remaining sauce over the top. Cover and cook on high for 3-4 hours or on low 6 hours.
- Serve pork chops over rice and garnish with chopped cilantro.
I prefer fresh pineapple what should I substitute for the juice?
You can use pineapple juice from a bottle
What can I use if I don’t have rice vinegar?
Apple cider vinegar is the next closest thing but you can also use white wine vinegar, or even lemon or lime juice
My girlfriends husband just made this pork chop & pineapple dinner for us last night and the sauce was phenomenal! The pork chops were very tender & tasty also. My son is planning on making it for me tomorrow night – can we substitute wine vinegar for the rice vinegar?
I’m glad you enjoyed this recipe! 🙂 Yes you can sub red wine vinegar.
How do you get the pork chops to be more browned? They look steamed.
You can saute them for a bit before putting them in the slow cooker
Do u have to use potatoes? I don’t like rice but the rest of my family does
This recipe doesn’t call for potatoes. Do you mean do you have to use rice? You absolutely don’t have to! You can serve these pork chops with whatever you want!
Slow cooker died on me.
What about in the oven. Temp and time?
I’m thinking 200 for 3 hrs.
I’m sorry that happened. I haven’t personally tested this recipe in the oven but I would start with setting the oven to 350 and cook them for 15-20 minutes, always keeping an eye on them. Since it’s in the oven it will cook much faster than in the slow cooker. I would also bake them in a large casserole dish covered with foil.
Hey, the juice didn’t cover the pork chops completely should I add abit of water ?
Thanks in advance
I wouldn’t advise to add water as that will make it runnier and dilute the flavor. You can make one and a half servings of the recipe or even double it if you’d like more sauce.