Oven Braised Pork Chops With Red Onions And Pears Food

OVEN-BRAISED PORK CHOPS WITH RED ONIONS AND PEARS

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, bring the balsamic vinegar to a boil over high heat. Adjust the heat to a gentle boil, and boil until the vinegar is syrupy and reduced to about 1/3 cup. Set aside.
• Preheat the oven to 425° F. Heat the oil in a large, heavy skillet with a flame proof handle over medium-high heat. Whack the garlic cloves with the flat side of a knife and scatter them over the oil. Cook, shaking the skillet, until brown, about 2 minutes. Lay the pork chops in and cook until the underside is browned, about 6 minutes. Remove and reserve the garlic cloves if they become more than deep golden brown before the chops are fully browned.
• Turn the chops, tuck the onion wedges into the pan, and continue cooking until the second sides of the chops are browned, about 6 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. About halfway through browning the second side, tuck the pear wedges in between the chops.
• Stir the red-wine vinegar and honey together in a small bowl, until the honey is dissolved. Pour the vinegar-honey mixture into the skillet and bring to a vigorous boil. Return the garlic cloves to the skillet if you have removed them. Place the skillet in the oven and roast until the onions and pears are tender and the juices from the pork are a rich, syrupy dark brown, about 30 minutes. Once or twice during roasting, turn the chops and redistribute the onions and pears. Handle the skillet carefully-it will be extremely hot.
• Remove the skillet from the oven. Place a chop in the center of each warmed serving plate. Check the seasoning of the onion-pear mixture, adding salt and pepper if necessary. Spoon the pears, onion, and pan juices around the chops. Drizzle the balsamic-vinegar reduction around the edge of the plate.

BRAISED PORK CHOPS WITH ONIONS AND ROSEMARY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Dredge chops by shaking in a paper bag with flour, salt, and pepper.
• Melt butter in a heavy Dutch oven or large oven proof frying pan over moderately high heat and brown chops well on both sides, about 8-10 minutes.
• Remove from heat.
• Remove chops to pour in vermouth and water and scrape up any bits from bottom of pan.
• Put chops back in pan and pan back on heat source and lay onion slices over chops.
• Top with rosemary sprigs (if using dried rosemary, sprinkle evenly over all).
• Cover and bake 1 hour or until chops are tender (or cover and simmer on top of stove on low heat for about 45 minutes to an hour).
• Remove herb sprigs and serve, topping each portion with onions and a generous ladling of pan juices.

PORK CHOPS WITH PEARS AND RED ONIONS

Steps:

• About 1 ½ hour before serving: Peel onions and cut into 4 part thick wedges.
• Remove outer rows of celery ribs and trim root end.
• About 6-8 inches from root end, cut tops and leaves from celery.
• Cut celery lengthwise into quarters.
• In a 12” skillet over medium heat, add oil and cook onion wedges and celery quarters a few pieces at a time until golden brown.
• With slotted spoon, remove to 12x8 casserole or baking pan.
• Meanwhile, on waxed paper, mix flour and sage.
• Coat pork chops with mixture using hand to pat mixture onto pork chops to coat well.
• Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cook pork chops (at the same skillet used for onion) over medium heat until golden brown on both sides.
• Place in casserole with vegetables.
• Tuck pear halves around pork chops.
• Stir bouillon into apple juice and pour into casserole.
• Sprinkle pork chops with coarsely ground pepper.
• Cover casserole with foil and bake for 45 minutes or until pork and vegetables are fork tender.
• Sprinkle mixture with salt to taste.

PORK CHOPS WITH PEARS

Steps:

• In a large frying pan, brown the pork chops in hot oil; drain.
• Transfer the pork chops to a shallow baking pan and season with salt and pepper.
• Arrange the pear halves around the chops.
• Drizzle orange juice over all.
• Sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon.
• Pour sherry over all.
• Place butter in the hollow of pears.
• Cover and bake at 350°F for 20 minutes.
• Uncover and continue baking for 20 minutes, until meat is tender.
• Place the pears and pork chops on a platter.
• Dissolve cornstarch in water, stir into sauce mixture and cook until thickened.
• Pour over pork chops and pears.
• Enjoy!