TSS Apricot Pig
Courtesy of Tim Hade of Indianola, IA

Iowa Chops
"the Juicy Pig"™
"Rattlesnake Dust"
12 oz. can apricot Nectar
Spritzer and big appetite!

For those of you who are not familiar with Iowa Chops, they are 1&1/2 inch thick center cut loin chops.

Take chops night before cooking coat liberal with "the Juicy Pig"™ and then spritz good with the Apricot nectar, tie in bags an put in fridge. Next day they look something like this:

 

Get grill good and hot, spritz chops one more time with Apricot an then sprinkle on "Rattlesnake Dust" lightly prior to putting on the grill. Cook hot turning frequent and spritzin with the apricot nectar till they get a bit burnt on fat edges an red brown on rest of the chop.

Take grill off an move coals to center, place couple sticks apple wood on for smoke, put chops outside edges of grill off direct heat, spray good with apricot an then cover kettle with small slit on vent. Leave for 1 hour.

Then ya get something that looks like this:

 

The thing about "the Juicy Pig"™ is that unlike other blends which contain MSG which toughens meat, this can go on overnight to really work that fine TSS flavor through the meat. Slow cooking on kettle with the "the Juicy Pig"™ leaves meat moist and tender like nothing I have ever had before off grill!

I gave a great deal of thought to what I wanted to use as fruit juice on these, and decided with the combo of "the Juicy Pig"™ and "Rattlesnake Dust" that the "sweet/sour" flavor of apricot would work. According to the family I got it RIGHT with this recipe!

The flavor was incredible!

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