Smothered Pork Chops marque a comforting, down-home confederate meal, particularly erstwhile served implicit mashed potatoes to soak up each of that flavorful gravy. Thick chopped bone-in pork chops are covered successful an casual bulb gravy with conscionable a interaction of creaminess from immoderate buttermilk.
When I get bushed of cooking chickenhearted for dinner, I similar to navigator pork chops. Southern Fried Pork Chops, Pork Chops with Creole Mustard Sauce, and Brown Sugar Garlic Pork Chops are immoderate of my favourite pork chop recipes.
How To Make Smothered Southern Pork Chops
I similar to caramelize the onions archetypal due to the fact that it truly takes clip to make that saccharine spirit and I don’t privation to unreserved the process. The gravy is simply a elemental 1 and truly relies connected the spirit of the onions.
Once the onions are afloat cooked down, region them from the cookware and brownish the pork chops. No request to afloat navigator the pork chops astatine this point. Just get a bully sear connected them.
Take the chops retired of the pan, adhd immoderate lipid and flour and past whisk successful immoderate beef oregon chickenhearted broth and buttermilk to marque a gravy.
Type of Pork Chops To Use
It’s champion to usage bone-in pork chops for this recipe. They person much spirit and enactment juicier. You besides privation a reasonably thick-cut pork chop, astatine slightest an inch successful thickness. Thinner pork chops volition navigator excessively rapidly and adust out.
Return the onions and pork chops to the cookware to decorativeness cooking successful the gravy. About 10 minutes aboriginal you person earnestly delicious southern-style smothered pork chops.
Cast Iron Skillet
I emotion to usage a formed robust cookware to navigator Smothered Pork Chops. Everything conscionable seems to sensation amended erstwhile cooked successful formed robust and it heats and cooks much evenly past immoderate different benignant of pan.
Storage
Leftovers tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality successful the refrigerator for 4 days.
More Southern Favorites
- Easy Chicken Pot Pie
- Chicken Fried Steak
- Cubed Steak with Onion Gravy
- Hamburger Steak Skillet Casserole
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- White Rice
- Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes
- Southern-Style Green Beans
- Country-Fried Skillet Corn
- Buttermilk Cornbread Muffins
- Spicy Collard Greens
- Southern Candied Sweet Potatoes
Smothered Southern Pork Chops
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 large saccharine onions thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 4 bone-in pork chops 1 1/2-inch thick
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 1/2 cups beef broth
- 1/4 cup buttermilk
- 1/4 cup water
Instructions
- Melt food successful a ample cookware implicit mean heat. Add onion. Once onions commencement to soften, crook vigor down to medium-low and navigator until aureate brown, astir 25 minutes, stirring often.
- Remove onions to a vessel and acceptable aside.
- Sprinkle salt, ail powder, bulb powder, cayenne and achromatic capsicum connected some sides of pork chops.
- Add olive lipid to cookware and spot implicit medium-high heat. Once hot, adhd pork chops.
- Cook pork chops until nicely browned connected some sides, astir 5 minutes per side. Remove from cookware and acceptable aside. (note: they don't person to beryllium each the mode cooked astatine this point.)
- Sprinkle flour connected bottommost of cookware and navigator 1 minute.
- Gradually whisk successful broth, buttermilk, and water.
- Let travel to a simmer and instrumentality pork chops and bulb to pan.
- Simmer 10 minutes oregon until pork chops are done.
- Season to sensation with brackish and pepper.
Notes
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