Recipe - Pear And Maple-Sauced Pork Chops

1 lg Pear, ripe, cored & cut or sliced up
One fourth cup Finely chopped onion
1/3 cup Mapleflavored syrup
1 tablespoon Margarine or butter, melted
One fourth teaspoon Ginger
4 (4 oz) boneless pork loin
chops, trimmed of all fat
One half teaspoon Salt
One fourth teaspoon Pepper
1 teaspoon Maple flavor

1. In a medium bowl, combine pear, onion, syrup, margarine (butter) and
ginger; mix well. Set aside. 2. Sprinkle both sides of pork chops with salt
and pepper. Spray heavy nonstick skillet with nonstick cooking spray. Heat
over medium high heat until hot. Add pork chops. Cook 23 minutes on each
side or until browned. Pour pear mixture over pork chops. Reduce heat to
mediumlow heat and cover and cook 1215 minutes or until pork chops are no
longer pink. 3. Place pork chops on serving platter; cover to keep warm.
Cook sauce over mediumhigh heat for 34 minutes or until sauce is
thickened, stirring constantly. Stir in maple flavor. Spoon sauce over
chops.