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Monday, December 31, 2012

Pork Chops, Fried and Oven-Finished

Best pork chops I have ever made!
In a plastic bag mix:
1/2 cup flour
1 Tbsp Paprika
1.5 tsp Sage
1 tsp Creole Seasoning
1/2 tsp Cayenne
1 tsp Cumin
1 tsp Black pepper
1 tsp Garlic salt

Heat oven to 400, place a 13x9 dish in the oven to preheat with the oven.  Get potatoes peeled, cut, and started boiling if mashed potatoes is what you want to serve it with (delish!)

Take four boneless chops, place in an egg wash of 1 egg and a couple of tablespoons water, beaten well.  Coat chops with egg wash, then drop into the plastic bag of flour coating mixture.  Shake each individually and set aside on a paper plate for 15 minutes to set the flour coating.  Heat 4 Tbsp oil, shortening or bacon fat (whatever you have) to hot in a skillet and add chops.  Get a hard sear on each side, add more oil/fat if you need to but don't cook through, this is just a hard sear (brown) on each side then take it out of the pan.

Transfer to the hot dish waiting in the oven, bake 20 minutes or until no longer pink when cut in center.  In the meantime make the gravy for the mashed potatoes, and make the mashed potatoes.

Gravy:
Use same skillet as pork chops were fried in, add 1/2 cup flour and make a roux (add more oil or fat if needed).  Cook until raw flour smell is gone, then add 2 cups chicken stock.  Cook until there are no lumps, stir A LOT, add some milk, either canned or regular, and whisk while boiling to thick.  Add pepper and Accent, more salt if needed, cook to desired consistency and wait for the chops to be done.