How To Make Smothered Pork Chops
Impress your family with this recipe. Pork chops are cooked until tender and braised in a cream-based sauce with onion, garlic, butter, and thyme.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 4pork loin chops,bone-in, 1-inch thick
- 1tspkosher salt
- ½tspblack pepper,coarse ground
- 4tbspvegetable oil
- 1yellow onion,sliced
- 2garlic cloves,minced
- 2thyme sprigs,fresh
- 4tbspbutter
- 2tsbpflour
- 2cupschicken broth
- ½cupheavy cream
Instructions
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Season the pork with the salt and pepper and add the vegetable oil to a cast iron skillet on medium high heat, searing on both sides for 4 to 5 minutes each side, until browned.
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Remove the pork from the pan and add in the butter and onions, cooking well for about 15 to 20 minutes or until caramelized, stirring occasionally.
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Add in the garlic and thyme, stirring for 1 minute until fragrant. Then, add in the flour and stir until it is fully absorbed before adding in the chicken broth and heavy cream. Whisk well.
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Add the pork back into the pan, reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes until the pork chops are tender and cooked through and the sauce has thickened and reduced by half.
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 631.07kcal
- Fat:Â 52.79g
- Saturated Fat:Â 20.58g
- Trans Fat:Â 0.57g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 23.52g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 5.09g
- Carbohydrates:Â 11.36g
- Fiber:Â 0.94g
- Sugar:Â 4.08g
- Protein:Â 27.72g
- Cholesterol:Â 148.60mg
- Sodium:Â 715.08mg
- Calcium:Â 65.73mg
- Potassium:Â 637.12mg
- Iron:Â 1.61mg
- Vitamin A: 226.61µg
- Vitamin C:Â 6.30mg
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