Instant Pot Garlic Herb Pork Chops and Green Beans–this one pot meal can be made in minutes. The pork chops and green beans are full of rich buttery herb flavors. Serve as is for a low-carb meal or serve with your favorite starch (potatoes, rice or noodles).
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Instant Pot Garlic Herb Pork Chops and Green Beans
My husband and I love going grocery shopping together. And sometimes my best recipes are from inspiration that we find in the grocery store. Greg picked up a package of pork sirloin boneless pork chops. They were a thick cut, probably an inch. Because I have cooked pork chops in the Instant Pot before I knew that they had a very short pressure cooking time…like 1 minute. So I picked up some green beans to go with the protein since I knew that they would also cook in about a minute. This is one thing that I always like to think through before I create an Instant Pot recipe. I like to pair foods together that have similar pressure cooking times. Otherwise some of the food would be overcooked or undercooked.
To create lots of flavor I seasoned and then browned the pork chops before I pressure cooked them. I like to use the sauté setting to brown meats. While the meat was browning I trimmed off the ends of the green beans and got out my spices. Then I added in some liquid to deglaze the pot and added in the green beans and seasonings. I ended up pressure cooking for just one minute. Then letting the pressure release naturally. The result was juicy pork chops and barely done green beans with lots of flavor.
I cooked all four pork chops in the pressure cooker and because there was a lot of meat we saved one for lunch today. I cut it up into slices and my husband took it to work to serve over salad.
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What Pressure Cooker Did You Use?
To make Instant Pot Garlic Herb Pork Chops and Green Beans I used my 6 quart Instant Pot Duo 60 7 in 1*. I love this Instant Pot because it has the yogurt making function which I use almost weekly. It has two pressure settings (high and low), and there are also little slots in the handles so that you can rest the lid there instead of putting it down on your counter-top.
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Instant Pot Garlic Herb Pork Chops and Green Beans
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Prep Time: 15 minutes -
Cook Time: 1 minute (plus NPR)
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Total Time: 16 minutes
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Yield: 4 servings -
Category: Pork -
Method: Instant Pot
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This one pot meal can be made in minutes. The pork chops and green beans are full of rich buttery herb flavors. Serve as is for a low-carb meal or serve with your favorite starch (potatoes, rice or noodles).
Ingredients
- 3 Tbsp butter
- 4 thick cut pork sirloin chops
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- 4 large garlic cloves, minced
- 3/4 cup chicken broth
- 1 pound green beans, washed and trimmed
- 1/2 tsp dried basil
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
Instructions
- Turn your Instant Pot to the saute setting. When the display says HOT add in the butter. Swirl the butter around until it is melted. Season one side of the pork chops with kosher salt and freshly ground pepper. Lay the seasoned side down into the butter. Add as many pork chops as you can without overlapping. While the first side is browning, season the other side of the meat that is facing up. Let the pork chops brown for about 2 minutes on each side. I use tongs to flip them. Once both sides of the pork chops have been browned lay them on a plate.
- Add garlic into the pot and saute for 30 seconds. Add in the chicken broth and deglaze the pot.
- Lay the pork back into the pot. Add in the green beans. Season the green beans with basil, oregano, thyme and onion powder. Toss them a bit with a spoon.
- Cover the pot and secure the lid. Make sure valve is set to “sealing.” Set the manual/pressure cook button for 1 minute. When the time is up let the pressure release naturally and remove the lid when the pin drops. My pressure released in only about 4 minutes! Remove the lid and test the pork for doneness. Use an instant read thermometer* to make sure that the internal temp of the pork chops reads at least 140 degrees F.
- Serve pork chops with green beans. Spoon the juices in the Instant Pot over the top of the meat and veggies.
Notes
I used my 6 quart Instant Pot Duo 60 7 in 1*.
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I made this for Sunday supper tonight. It is so hard to believe that the pork chops could get so tender with such a short time under pressure. They were a hit and the beans were delicious too. Definitely another keeper recipe! You are my favorite source for Instant Pot recipes! Keep them coming!
Thank you so much Linda! I’m so glad you enjoyed this one!
This recipe is absolutely delicious! Had it tonight and couldn’t wait to share our experience. Thick bone-in pork chop with fresh snap green beans. We added 1/2 tsp Kosher salt to the bean-sprinkle to liven them up.
We gained experience from when we made this 2 days ago… not so great when I thought we needed to increase saute time and double the cooking time (even though your recipe stated you had thick chops, I poorly assumed ours were thicker). So, the learning experience was a plus!
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Glad you learned from it!
I made this recipe the other day, and it was a hit with all of us! I opted to use cut-up unpeeled potatoes instead of the green beans. Everything was so tender and flavorful! What a delicious way to prepare pork chops! Thank you for the recipe.
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I really like that idea about the potatoes! I will try that next time 🙂
I made this last night and it was delicious!
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So glad to hear, Eliza!
Great recipe. I used what I had on hand this time – thicker cut pork chops, fresh herbs, beef broth and subbed frozen riced cauliflower in for the green beans. I added an extra minute to the cooking time but it came out great! I may use a little less liquid next time since a lot came out of the cauliflower, but I cooked it all down on Sauté after removing the pork and it came out a risotto consistency. Yum!
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That sounds really tasty!
I’m still a newbie with the Instant Pot, so when I saw how easy your recipe was I decided to give it a try. We really liked the pork chops & the green beans were fantastic.
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Welcome to the IP world, Mary! I’m glad you enjoyed this recipe!
What about frozen green beans? How would they be added? Frozen or thawed?
You can throw them in frozen.
So if you use frozen GB will the cook time stay the same?
I’m not sure but I’d keep it the same.
Hi Karen, I don’t have a meat thermometer.
Should I increase the time on the pork chops?
No, it should be fine. They really do cook so fast.
Hello… I made this recipe with fresh brussel sprouts and yellow potatoes today. It was amazing-thanks for the recipe!
sounds so good!
Do you think chicken thighs or breasts would work the same?
I think you’d need to increase the cooking time to at least 4 minutes. Chicken would be thicker and take longer to cook. But I bet it would taste really yummy!
Can you use frozen pork tenderloin?
Is it one long pork tenderloin or is it cut up into pieces?
Can you add small potatoes
Yes I think that would work, especially if they were red or yellow potatoes.
What an easy meal this was to make. I used my mini Instant pot as I cut the recipe in half for the 2 of us. I didn’t have fresh green beans on hand, so I used thawed Brussels sprouts instead. It was a delicious meal.
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Oh that’s cool about the Brussels sprouts! did they cook well?
I intensely dislike green beans, could asparagus be used instead or is it too delicate?
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Lynda, from what I’ve read asparagus cooks very very quickly. I’m afraid it would be too mushy. However you could add it in after and saute it while the pork rests on a plate.
That could work, it would take on the flavours of the herbs and such… as an alternate to asparagus, do you have any other suggestions for vegetables? Julienned carrots maybe?
Oh yeah, carrots would work great! Try that 🙂