Island Breeze Pork Chops

I fully expected that I would enjoy this meal, but I also expected it to taste familiar to recipes gone by. Wow. What a pleasant treat this turned out to be. The southwest seasoning on the pork was an exciting contrast for the salsa. The addition of chili flakes and butter to the rice really made that side pop with richness and depth. It complimented the scallion and lime so well. Oh, and the cumin on the carrots? Really helped to carry the theme across the board...eh, plate. Well done.

Wooowwww I didn't think I would like this but was I wrong! Sooo good! The mango with pork and the rice and the roasted cumin carrots. So many different flavors that marry so well together

I love the way I have learned to cook rice and the added ingredients like ginger to the rice and scallion whites to incorporate extra flavor is such a great idea! The pork was fantastic and I love carrots now. I used to be like eeeh carrots. NOT ANYMORE! I dream of eating them....lol

I don't like carrots, but this preparation was delicious. The mango sauce for the pork was also yummy. I liked this recipe a lot!

This dish (in all its variations) hits hard in a big way every single time. LOVE IT!! The Southwest flavor packet needs to be added to the marketplace STAT!! And the Tex-Mex Paste! Flavors are big, bright, bordering spicy but holding fast to savory deliciousness. The mango salsa adds that perfect contrast of sweetness - and the rice plays its role perfectly, absorbing all of those fantastic flavors. I didn't make the carrots.

Prep time again is understated. More than ten minutes to prep the veggies and lay out everything. The one carrot that was in the box was huge. Had to cut in half lengthwise and then in slices. It cooked up fine so other than that, was good. The mango salsa with just a pinch of red pepper flakes was great! And, my husband liked the rice a lot this time.

I've noted this before, but half a cup of uncooked rice is too small for 2 servings. Two, the pork chop is significantly smaller than the picture showed. I also think that the mixing of butter in the rice isn't always the best when it is already seasoned with so many other things. Overall, I liked the pork chop the most because the mango salsa tasted good on it, probably would be better with real mango though. I would've roasted my carrots for less time. Tastes much worse when microwaved. The carrots are dried out and don't taste too well with oil, the butter makes the rice very mushy. The steak still tastes good.

The fruit salsa dishes with carrots are always a hit in my house. It's the sort of thing my husband initially doesn't think he'd like but then eats every bite of.

Delicious sweet fruit sauce goes well with smoky character of cumin rub on pork.

Very good quality pork chops. The rice was flavorful. We would order this again