Pork Chops Smothered and Covered!

2Bleu's Note:

You won't find these at the Aweful Waffle! The gravy will be a white, thick country style gravy. A great way to ensure tender and moist chops is to soak them in a brine of 1 cup milk to 1/2 Tbs salt for at least 1 hour before using in a recipe.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 10 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 4 pork chops, center cut (1/2 inch thick)
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• flour (for dredging)
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 2 onions, sliced
• 6 ounces mushrooms (optional)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons flour
• 1 1/2 cups chicken broth
• 1/2 cup heavy cream

Directions:

1. Season pork chops with salt, and pepper, paprika and garlic powder. Coat completely with flour.
2. Heat oil in heavy skillet. Add pork chops and brown on each side (about 3 minutes per side). Remove and set aside.
3. Add sliced onions & mushrooms to the pan drippings and cook for 1 minute. Add the 1 1/2 tbsp flour. Continue to stir until onions and flour begin to brown slightly.
4. Add chicken broth and heavy cream and bring to a boil, stir until incorporated. (add more broth if too thick to your liking).
5. Return pork chops to the gravy. Cover skillet, reduce heat and simmer for 50-60 minutes or until gravy is thick and pork chops are tender.

Reviews

[gailanng]

Diary #4--Confessions of a housewife: Day 212, Page 63 Paragraph 2--"Spent 7 hours on the computer today. Hurriedly prepared dinner with a wonderful saucy pork chop recipe. Swore to DH it took hours which conjured accolades of compliments." That's my story and I'm sticking to it! Made for PRMR.

[bmcnichol]

This was easy to make but the seasoning had too much salt in it. I don't know if it was the salt from the seasonings or from the chicken broth but next time I would cut the salt back to one teaspoon instead of two. Other then the salt, we really did enjoy these. I cooked mine for an hour because my chops were on the thick side and they were fork tender.

[Chef shapeweaver ©]

I made this recipe on 7/16/12 as part of mine and my SO's dinner.The recipe was made as follows,the chops were seasoned with seasoning salt, pepper, garlic powder,and sweet paprika.Then coated with flour that had also been seasoned with the spices that were used to season the chops. After browning the chops, the onions were added and add lightly browned.Then I proceeded to make the gravy, since no cream was on hand, milk was used. After returning the chops to the gravy, they were left to simmer for about 1 hour. I do have to say that that these chops just fell of the bone. My SO and I both thought that they were good. Thank you for posting and, " Keep Smi8ling :) "