Last week we went up the mountain to do Tabasco Chipotle Stuffed Pork Chops with Dad. He being a big Tabasco fan had just received a case of goodies he had ordered from them. He gave me 4 different bottles of Tabasco sauce, their new mustard and a bottle topper. The topper is a basting brush that screws onto a Tabasco bottle… You can guess where things went from there.

Me being a BIG CHIPOTLE fan, I took the Chipotle Tabasco Sauce and have given it a good work out. I have only had it for 4 days and it has been the star at 3 BBQ’s. Patti has even asked me to try and go a few days without Chipotle… I could not quite pull it off…

We did two of these stuffed pork chops tonight, hers and mine… I know that hers was good because there is no way that a hickory smoked pork chop isn’t always good. But mine was better… The plate you see is a Chipotle Tabasco stuffed pork chop, smoked garlic and potatoes.

Note: This is one of our 1st recipes, Dad loved “Stuffed Pork Chops” and for over 20 years we would call each other and brag on who found “The Biggest Pork Chops” to stuff….

Patti and I have set one night a week just for us. It’s our date night. We usually put something special on one of our Grills or Smokers, but sometimes we cook inside. We always eat outside on our patio where it is very comfortable with a rainforest theme.  Wood Pellet Patio Heater, little lights, candles, lanterns, and surround sound. We enjoy a little wine, or strawberry margaritas using frozen strawberries for ice, good food, music and sometimes a dance or two…

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Tabasco Chipotle Stuffed Pork Chops
A Remembering Dad Recipe

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Grill: Any Grill
Pellets: BBQPelletsOnline

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We have a few “Grilling Essentials” that we love. First, we have “Grill Grates” on all of our grills. Love the control they give us with our “cooks” from smoke to sear!

A “Smoke Daddy Cold Smoke Generator” for “Cold Smoking”…

A “Wedgie” for creating smoke blends or just bring smoke into our cook.

Bull Racks used as much Off the grill As on the grill!!! A Must Have for Smoking

And Don Godke’s Downdraft on my Green Mountains Grills”. What the “DownDraft” does is hold the smoke a little longer in the cooking chamber. Adding more smoke flavor and making it easier to create smoke blends to your liking.

Ingredients: Tabasco Chipotle Stuffed Pork Chops

• Pork Chops & Stuffing 2 extra thick pork chops
• Garlic
• Primavera Risotto rice for stuffing
• ½ cup Parmesan cheese

Tabasco Chipotle Stuffed Pork Chops
A Remembering Dad Recipe

Directions: Tabasco Chipotle Stuffed Pork Chops Stuffing

Rice: Sauté rice with ½ Tbsp. olive oil in a 2qt. saucepan over medium heat.  Add 2 ½ cups of broth and the seasoning that came in the box, stirring to blend seasonings. Heat to a boil then reduce heat to simmer. Do not cover, cook for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the Parmesan cheese, mixing until blended. Stuff your pork chops with the rice and you’re ready to grill.

Directions:Tabasco Chipotle Stuffed Pork Chops Pork

Pork For this one, start with Direct High Heat (400-450). Season your chops and place them on a hot oiled grill to sear in the juices. This will take just a few minutes on each side. Then, move them over off the direct heat so you are now cooking with INDIRECT HEAT round 350. Let them soak up the hickory smoke until you reach a internal temperature of 145 degrees (62c) U.S.D.A. safe. But I like it around 130-140 for my taste…

I use a Maverick ProTemp Instant Read Thermometer for checking meat temps.

Tabasco Chipotle Stuffed Pork Chops
A Remembering Dad Recipe

Tabasco Chipotle Stuffed Pork Chops
A Remembering Dad Recipe

Preparing Grill:

High Direct Heat Preheat your grill to High heat (400-450). Add your wet hickory chips to the fire and oil the grill. A cooking spray is easiest for this. (Note: you can add your hickory directly to the grill or you can use foil smoke packets. (Two handfuls wet chips and one dry, fold foil into a packet, poke holes in it with a fork and you’re good to go.)

Preparing Grill:

Medium Indirect Heat Turn down your grill to medium heat (350*) and turn off one side so you will be cooking with indirect heat. Add more hickory chips over the fire and oil the grill. A cooking spray is easiest for this.

Tabasco Chipotle Stuffed Pork Chops
A Remembering Dad Recipe

Tabasco Chipotle Stuffed Pork Chops
A Remembering Dad Recipe

Directions: Tabasco Chipotle Stuffed Pork Chops

Garlic and Onions Not having any big bulbs for the grill, I thought I would try to build a bird’s nest of rosemary and fill it with garlic like eggs. Cut the onions into ¾ inch or so slices and put on the grill with the garlic. I sprayed a little olive oil on them and a shot of steak seasoning. These will take longer than your meat so start them about 30 minutes before you put your chops on. I gave it a shot of my Worcestershire sauce spray every now and then to keep things moist.

Tabasco Chipotle Stuffed Pork Chops
A Remembering Dad Recipe

About Our Recipes

We do our recipes on our patio where we have a lineup of grills, including Monument, Green Mountain, Uuni Wood Fired Pizza Oven, Sawtooth, Louisiana, Royall, Memphis, Traeger pellet grills, Char Griller side box smoker, Saber, Charmglow, Char-Broil, The Big Easy, Lodge Sportsman’s, Brinkman and Weber. I call it our “Wall of Grill”. Our grilling styles are healthy and low fat and will fit pelletheads, gas, natural wood and even charcoal purists. Almost any of our recipes can be done on any kind of good BBQ.

The important thing to keep in mind is TIME & TEMPERATURE. You can do our recipes on any grill, even some of them in the oven or crock pot, but, then you lose all the flavors you get from cooking outdoors. But sometimes it does rain.

Remember that a recipe is simply an outline; it is not written in stone. Don’t be afraid to make changes to suit your taste. Take it and run with it….

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