Southern
Smothered Pork Chops
Smothered Pork Chops is Southern home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 bone-in pork chops
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 onions
- 4 garlic cloves
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp neutral oil
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Season the pork chops with salt, pepper, and paprika, then dredge lightly in the flour, reserving the extra.
- Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high and sear the chops until browned, about 3 minutes per side, then remove.
- Melt the butter in the same pan and cook the sliced onions and garlic until deep golden, about 8 minutes.
- Sprinkle in 2 tbsp of the reserved flour and cook 1 minute, then whisk in the broth and milk and simmer until thickened.
- Return the chops, cover, and simmer until tender and cooked through, about 15 minutes.
- Spoon the onion gravy over the chops and serve.
Serve it with
A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Smothered Pork Chops, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Smothered Pork Chops carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Cajun Jambalaya |
| Gluten | Yes | Blackened Catfish |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Dairy, Grains, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Smothered Pork Chops takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on pork and onion.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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