What to have with pork chops..?

PasturesNew

JIL wrote: »

Slice up an onion, a couple of peeled potatoes also sliced and an apple peeled and sliced.
Lay out a square of tin foil, put a little butter or oil on it. Layer the potatoes, onion and apple on the foil. Season. Put a pork chop on top and make a parcel. Do the same with another one. Bake in the oven for about an hour/hour and a half.

A whole oven on, for 1-1.5 hours, for a dinky chop!!
Might be a job for a slow cooker.

PasturesNew

Have you thought of trying different chops? Lambs have chops
What about lamb chops, minty peas and the croquettes mentioned above?

minimad1970

My favourite is with sweet chilli sauce, egg fried rice and roasted red onion and peppers.

tesuhoha

Boil a cauliflower for 10 - 15 mins, put it in an oven dish and grate a fair amount of cheese over it, cheddar is good. Bake for around 20 mins until it goes golden on top. This goes well with pork chops and jacket potatoes.

Steve059

I like savoury golden vegetable rice with them.

PS. Try doing them this way ...

PORK IN CIDER

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS

250ml of cider
1 cooking apple
1 onion
1 tablespoon of oil
2 pork chops or steaks
2 heaped teaspoons of chicken or vegetable gravy granules

METHOD

Pour the cider into a measuring jug. Peel and core the apple, cut it into two thick slices and put them in the cider. Chop the remaining apple into tiny pieces and put them in the cider.

Peel the onion and chop it into tiny pieces.

Put the oil into a frying pan on a medium heat. Add the meat. Fry the meat for 5 minutes on each side until brown.

Put the onion and the chopped apple in the bottom of an ovenproof dish with a lid. Mix thoroughly.

Put the meat on top of the onion and apple mixture. Put the apple slices on top of the meat. Add the cider. Put the lid on the dish.

Cook in a preheated oven at 150°C, 300°F, gas mark 2 for 2 hours. Check the liquid level from time to time and top it up if it starts to dry out.

Remove the meat and apple slices.

Add the gravy granules or stock cube to the cider and onion left in the dish. Stir thoroughly.

For a smooth gravy, if you have a food processor, put the cider and onion in it and blend it to the desired consistency. If you have a hand blender, put it in the cider and onion and blend it to the desired consistency. If you don’t have a food processor or hand blender, use a potato masher, press the onion through a sieve with the back of a spoon, or leave it lumpy.

TIPS

Putting the apple in the cider stops it going brown.

JIL

PasturesNew wrote: »

A whole oven on, for 1-1.5 hours, for a dinky chop!!
Might be a job for a slow cooker.

I usually put it in the small oven. If the big oven is on I do usually fill it up with cakes or other things but the slow cooker would be an option.

samsmoot

minimad1970 wrote: »

My favourite is with sweet chilli sauce, egg fried rice and roasted red onion and peppers.

Sounds delicious.


I usually boil some basmati and roast or fry some tomatoes and chillies as well - and if I can be bothered fry the rice with thinly sliced fried onions. Petit pois go nice, as do whole green beans, which also go nice with hot pepper/ chilli sauce. Plus instant gravy.

samsmoot

Steve059 wrote: »

I like savoury golden vegetable rice with them.

Ditto.


Tesco's value brand is the one for me. Tried Sainsbury's own but not impressed.

Maitane

Have you tried frying or baking gnocchi? Makes them like tiny little roast potatoes. Every time we do this, I thank Nigella Lawson for it :rotfl:

harveybobbles

Caulli's are banned too.

I've decided to chop em up and bung em in the slow cooker with chopped apple, onion, mustard and sage and turn it into some sort of caserole.