Veal Chops With Avocado

TasteTester's Note:

The buttery and creamy taste of avocado complements the delicate flavor of veal chops in this recipe. It makes a wonderful dinner to serve for special occasions.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 55 mins
• Prep Time: 25 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 4 loin veal chops , each cut about 3/4-inch thick
• 2 tablespoons butter
• ¼ lb mushroom , sliced
• ¼ cup minced onion
• 2 tablespoons medium sherry
• ¾ teaspoon salt
• 1 dash hot pepper sauce
• 1 ripe avocado (I prefer the small black Haas avocado)
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch
• ½ cup heavy cream or ½ cup whipping cream
• 1 teaspoon chopped fresh dill

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Slash fat on edge of chops, being careful not to cut into the meat. In a 10-inch skillet with ovensafe handles, cook mushrooms and onions in hot butter over medium heat until tender, 5-10 minutes.
2. Arrange chops in skillet. Add sherry, salt and hot pepper sauce; heat to boiling. Cover and bake 1 hour or until meat is fork-tender.
3. Cut avocado in half; remove seed and skin. Slice avocado and arrange over chops. Bake, uncovered, 10 minutes for until avocado is heated through. Place chops on a warm platter.
4. Blend cornstarch and 1 tablespoon cream until smooth; stir in remaining cream. Gradually stir into hot liquid in skillet and cook over medium heat, stirring until thickened. Stir in dill. Serve chops immediately with sauce.

Reviews

[The Flying Chef]

This is totally delicious!! We loved, loved and loved this one. I did have to make this with scallops of veal as I couldn't get loin chops but either way I think this is just a super recipe. It uses ingredients that we love and they all come together beautifully. Then only change I made was to add some crushed garlic to the onions and mushrooms while cooking but that was just our preference. I loved the creamy sauce with veal and topped with avocado it was just heavenly. A definite winner for us TasteTester.

[djmastermum]

This was really nice. It had nice strong robust flavours and the cjhilli sauce went with i9s so well. I couldn't get veal loin chops, so had to use veal steaks. I bet it would have been even better with the loin chops. Made and reviewed and photographed for the NZ/Aus Recipeswap #22 November 2008