Braised Pork Chops
Created by ImPat on January 20, 2016
- Servings: 4
- Prep Time: 30m
- Cook Time: 55-70m
- Recipe #22605
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 125 grams bacon rashers (4 slices streaky, finely sliced)
- 3 garlic cloves (minced)
- 1 large yellow onion (sliced)
- 11 ounces leeks (2 leeks, halved lengthways and sliced)
- 8 ounce fennel bulb (1 bulb, sliced)
- 12 ounces apples (2 granny smith, peeled and diced)
- 4 thick (1 1/4 to 1 1/2 pounds)) pork loin chops
- 3/4 cup dry white wine
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 fresh thyme sprigs
- Sea salt
- Freshly ground pepper
How to Make
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Step 1: Heat a little oil in a heavy bottomed casserole and briefly cook the bacon.
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Step 2: Add the garlic, onion, leeks, fennel and apple and stir well, turn the heat down and gently sauté for about 10 minutes or until the vegies start to collapse a little, regularly stirring.
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Step 3: Then bury the pork in the vegies and add the wine, stock, bay leaves, thyme sprigs and seasonings.
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Step 4: Stir, turn down the heat even more, tightly cover and gently simmer for about 45 to 60 minutes until the meat is tender, turning every now and then.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (517.7 g)
- Calories 620.3
- Total Fat - 32.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 9.9 g
- Cholesterol - 248 mg
- Sodium - 706.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 31.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 5.2 g
- Sugars - 13.3 g
- Protein - 48.9 g
- Calcium - 145.2 mg
- Iron - 4.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 24.2 mg
- Thiamin - 0.9 mg