Pan-Roasted, Brown Butter-Basted Pork Chops over Wild Rice with Dried Cherries

INGREDIENTS

For the Pork Chops

single, bone-in pork chops (or 2 double, bone-in)

1 cup

kosher salt

1 cup

sugar

2 tsp

black peppercorns

head garlic, halved crosswise, plus three unpeeled cloves

thyme sprigs

4 tbsp

grapeseed oil

6 tbsp

unsalted butter

For the Rice

1 1/2 cups

dry wild rice mix

1 cup

dried cherries, roughly chopped

2 tbsp

unsalted butter

shallot, finely chopped

2 cloves

garlic, minced

1 tsp

salt, plus more to taste

1/2 tsp

cracked black pepper, plus more to taste