How do you cook your pork chops?

Cast iron skillet, super high heat, bit of butter (olive oil won't work - you need a higher flashpoint).

Sear them both sides (about 10 minutes). This causes the maillard reaction, which is what makes meat in your fave restaurant taste so damn good.

Then transfer them to the oven and bake em covered the rest of the way.

I do the sear as well,but I use a vegetable oil, and then I pour liquid in the pan, white wine, sherry or broth, cover the pan reduced the heat and let them cook the rest of the way.



That's how the chops above were cooked.

Oven "fried".

Dip in egg/milk, then bread crumbs (italian seasoned are the best), then bake in the oven on a pan sprayed w/non-stick for @ 25 minutes. One of my favorites, and very easy. I love them grilled with dry BBQ rub, too.

I haven't made these since starting MFP so don't know what the calorie count is - huge??
Delicious tho :-) Don't know if you get Ginger Beer in the US? It's non-alcoholic, a soft drink. You can get low-cal versions so that might make it better.

Pork - Chops in ginger beer
30g butter
4 pork chops, trimmed, or use pork steaks
1 large onion, sliced
125g celery, sliced
2 carrots, thinly sliced
1/4 cup flour
2 cups ginger beer
1 beef stock cube in 4 tablspns boiling water
juice 1/2 lemon, dash Worcestershire sauce, s & p
1 425 g tin tomatoes or 250 g fresh toms peeled, seeded & chopped
Cook chops or steaks in butter until golden brown. Put into casserole. Add vegetables to pan, fry until tender. Add flour, stir constantly 1 minute. Gradually stir in ginger beer and stock, bring to boil, stirring constantly. When thickened add seasoning & flavourings, and tomatoes. Pour over meat, cover and cook 180o C for 45 minutes.

Ohhhh

We are a big fan of grilling them too, and stuffing them is even better. (Stuffed w/dried tomato, and cheese, or minced herbs and garlic, in a bit of butter,) Tyler Florence has a great recipe for Smothered pork chops--not particularily low cal I'm sure, but super tasty.

My husband cooks the Tyler Florence recipe.....you are right, it is super tasty!

I apologize if you're looking for healthy recipes...this one isn't, but I love it to death.

Nashville Hot Chops:
***Caution, This is HOT, like make your lips tingle, work up a sweat HOT!***

Prep:
You need -
Corn Meal
Cayenne Pepper
Brown Sugar
Butter Milk
Salt and Pepper
Fat (bacon, lard, vegetable oil, etc.)

Make a dredge of corn meal, salt, black pepper, and cumin if you like it.
Dip the chops into dredge, dip them into the butter milk, dip the chops in the dredge a second time.

Now either bake or deep fry them to your preferred done-ness.

If you baked them, save the fat drippings. If not use lard, bacon fat, or vegetable oil (obviously the richer fats are more flavor full, but harder on the waist line.) You should have about 1/3 cup fat. Add 1/6 cup cayenne and 1/6 cup brown sugar to the fat, mix thoroughly. Coat the chops in the above mix. Enjoy!

If you like hot as heck food, this recipe is awesome for chicken too, and you can add flour to the dredge if you like chunkier fried chicken.

In a crockpot with fat free cream of mushroom soup and some fresh mushrooms. I feel like I also add milk, or chicken broth but cant remember. Google Smothered Pork Chops in Crock Pot They come out so tender

smoke em