A Classic Family Recipe Maple - Infused Pork Steaks
Have you ever grilled with maple leaves or twigs? You might not realize it, but these come with a surprising amount of maple flavor. You can use these twigs and leaves right along with the charcoal and grill up pork steaks in about an hour, and you’d swear they were cooking all day long with maple wood.
Ingredients
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1 pack center cut pork steaks
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2–3 handfuls of maple twigs with handful of green maple leaves
Salt and pepper to taste
Maple syrup
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1 chimney full of charcoal
Instructions
1. This is a recipe where you only want to use salt and pepper to season the steaks. They are neutral spices that won’t overpower the maple flavor we are looking for. 2. To get started, place the chimney full of charcoal in the grill. You want the ambient temperature on the indirect heat side of your
3. With the grill hot, place the pork steaks over indirect heat. Next, add a handful of twigs and leaves to the charcoal, then move the
5. When both sides of the steak are seared to your liking, finish them over indirect heat, spritzing themwith water every 3 minutes. Make sure the temperature on the indirect heat side of your cooker remains at 225–230 F before spritzing. If needed, add more twigs and leaves to keep the heat up. 6. Once the internal temperature of your pork steaks hits 155 F (this can take about an hour), pull the pork steaks off the grill. Then brush with a light coat of maple syrup. Wrap in foil and let rest for 20 minutes before serving. 7. Your patience will be rewarded! This recipe has always been a family favorite, and I hope it becomes one of yours.
pork steaks over the direct heat. Do this quickly! It may flame up, but the twigs will burn fast.
4. Once you have a good sear on one side, pull the pork back to the indirect heat. Spritz the steaks with water and let them rest for
cooker to be at approximately 230 F. And because you will be searing the pork steaks with the twigs and leaves, along with the charcoal, you want to make sure you have enough. The twigs and leaves burn quickly!
about a minute. Then, flip and add another handful of twigs and leaves to the charcoal, and quickly pull the steaks back over the direct heat.
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