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| PORK CHOPS WITH
APPLE CREAM SAUCE |
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recipe) |
| Happy New
Year to all! I selected this recipe
since many people including myself
choose to eat pork and cabbage for
good luck in the New Year. |
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| TOOLS: |
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Large Heavy Saucepan
• Whisk
• Knife
• Apple Corer
• Cutting Board
• Whatever you choose to
cook
the Pork Chops
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| INGREDIENTS: |
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4 Pork Chops
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Salt & pepper to
taste
Sauce
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1 cup apple juice
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2 medium-size apples,
peeled, cored
and diced (Golden
Delicious or Cameo
or any cooking
variety)
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½ cup sweet, white
wine
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1 cup chicken stock
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1/4 cup AppleJack or
Apple Brandy (I
used a Sweet Cherry
Brandy)
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2 tbsp (1/4 stick)
butter
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2 tbsp chopped
Tarragon
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½ cup heavy cream
(half/half)
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Salt & freshly
ground white or black
pepper to taste
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| PREPARATION: |
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Cook the pork chops anyway you
like them, i.e. pan fry, broiler, or
grilled the way you like them. (I
used my NuWave oven)
While the pork chops are cooking, in
a large, heavy saucepan, boil the
apple juice over high heat until it
has been reduced to ½ cup (appx. 3
minutes). Reduce heat to medium. Add
the apples, wine and stock and
continue to boil until the apples
fall apart, appx. 10 minutes. (The
sauce will be a bit chunky.) Adjust
the heat to low and stir in the
brandy, butter and tarragon. Simmer
the sauce for 5 minutes. Stir in the
cream and simmer 5 minutes more.
Season with salt & pepper. The
sauce should be very hot. Spoon over
the pork chops and serve
immediately.
HINTS: As the apples were
cooking, I mashed them with my whisk
as I stirred them to help them break
down. I like my pork chops served
with mashed potatoes and cream style
corn, but for health purposes, these
were served with steamed, red
cabbage. Also, I buy whole pork
tenderloin when it is on sale and
have it cut to desired thickness and
use that for pork chops in recipes.
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