Instant Pot Pork Chops in Tomato Cream Sauce, Keto Recipe

This Instant Pot Pork Chops recipe is keto compliant, but good for anyone on the diet or not. The bone-in pork chops are bathed in a luscious tomato cream sauce with mushrooms and prepared in the pressure cooker.

A delicious budget low carb dinner the whole family can enjoy. Just fix plates of the pressure cooker pork chops with tomato cream sauce recipe along with appropriate sides.

Instant Pot Pork Chops (Bone-in): Budget Dinner

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.

Not only does the pressure cooking method lend itself to tender pork chops, but the creamy tomato sauce helps keep them moist.

Keto Instant Pot Pork Chops

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 these tender keto 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
• salt and pepper to taste

Directions

To start, take the chops and season with salt and fresh ground black pepper.

Turn on the pressure cooker and set 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. Continue cooking on sauté mode to thicken.

Serve with fresh chopped parsley on top.

Bone in Pork Chops vs. Boneless Pork Chops

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 pork chops cook faster, but are 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.

Side Dishes to Serve with the Pork Chops

Serve pork chops with your choice of appropriate sides.

Some low carb sides that I recommend are Spanish cauliflower rice, cauliflower rice pilaf, mashed cauliflower, baked asparagus, broccoli rabe or for a few carbs more roasted turnips.

If you are not counting carbs, mashed potatoes, steamed rice, buttered noodles or pan-fried sweet potatoes are great choices.

Whatever you choose, just make sure to ladle on some of that delicious creamy tomato sauce on.

Cheap Keto Instant Pot Recipes

Of course cheap is relative on keto, but here are a few recipes, that won't bust your budget.

• Keto Pulled Pork
• Instant Pot Salsa Chicken
• Keto BBQ Chicken Instant Pot
• Instant Pot Chicken Curry