This Instant Pot Pork Chops keto recipe is good for anyone on the diet or not. The bone-in pork chops are bathed in a luscious tomato cream sauce with mushrooms.
Instant Pot Pork Chops (Bone-in)
Meat can be expensive these days, but the Instant Pot makes cuts like bone in pork chops tender and delicious. If you've ever had a bone dry, tough as nails, pork chop before, this is something you will appreciate.
Keto Dinner
The recipe is keto-friendly, and budget cuts of meat can really keep costs down on the diet. A keto diet can be quite expensive to follow. Budget savvy keto followers tend to have a lot of recipes like this up their sleeve.
A serving of the pork chops with sauce is 5 net carbs. If you omit the onion, it has 4 net carbs per serving.
For a similar skillet style recipe, try my Keto Pork Chops in Parmesan Cream Sauce.
The recipe serves 4 people.
What to Serve with Keto Instant Pot Pork Chops
The mushrooms may be sufficient for some as a light meal, but most people will want a side dish. Frozen Cauliflower Rice Pilaf or Spanish Cauliflower Rice are both good choices. Cauliflower Mashed would be a classic choice. Baked asparagus or Cauliflower Tots would certainly pair well with these pork chops in tomato cream sauce.
How To Make Instant Pot Pork Chops Keto Style
Let's make some Keto Pork Chops in the Instant Pot! Printable recipe card can be found below.
Ingredients
Here is what you need for the low carb recipe:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 bone-in pork chops
- ½ onion, chopped (optional)
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 8 ounces fresh sliced mushrooms
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup heavy cream
Directions
Turn the pressure cooker on to sauté mode, add oil and then brown the pork chops on both sides.
Add next 5 ingredients (all except the heavy cream) to the Instant Pot, and then cover.
Turn pressure valve to sealed.
Set manual high pressure to 12 minutes.
Once pressure cooking time has elapsed, do a quick release of the pressure.
Remove pork chops and turn the pressure cooker back on to sauté mode.
Pour the cream into the instant pot and stir the sauce with a wooden spoon. Cook on sauté mode to thicken.
Bone in Pork Chops vs. Boneless
These are basically the same cut of meat, the only real difference is whether the bone is cut off or not. Buying bone in is both more cost effective and some say more flavorful. Boneless cooks faster, but is more prone to drying out. For this recipe bone in just seemed a smarter choice.
If cooking boneless pork chops, you will need to reduce your pressure cooking time to 8-10 minutes for this Instant Pot recipe, depending on thickness of the meat.
Cheap Keto Instant Pot Recipes
Of course cheap is relative on keto, but here are a few recipes, that won't bust your budget.
Instant Pot Pork Chops
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 bone-in pork chops
- ½ onion chopped (optional, omitting reduces 1 carb per serving)
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 8 ounces fresh sliced mushrooms
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup heavy cream
Instructions
- Turn the pressure cooker on to sauté mode, add oil and then brown the pork chops on both sides.
- Add next 5 ingredients to the Instant Pot, and then cover.
- Turn pressure valve to sealed.
- Set manual pressure to 12 minutes.
- Once pressure cooking time has elapsed, do a quick pressure release.
- Remove pork chops and turn the pressure cooker back on to sauté mode.
- Mix together cornstarch and half and half and then pour into the instant pot and mix together with the sauce. Cook on sauté mode to thicken.
Leave a Reply