Thick Pork Chops With Gingersnap Gravy Food

THICK PORK CHOPS WITH GINGERSNAP GRAVY

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 450F. Rinse and pat dry pork chops. Salt and pepper them to taste.
• 2. In a Dutch oven or large heavy pot, heat the oil and add the onion and salt and cook on medium for 7 minutes. Add the gingersnaps, beer, ground ginger, sugar, pepper and cinnamon. Bring to a boil over medium heat, reduce to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes. Whisk to smooth gravy.
• 3. Whisk in cream. Taste for seasoning and add more salt and pepper, if needed. Keep warm.
• 4. Oil an ovenproof skillet and heat it until it is very hot. Sear the pork chops on both sides until they turn golden. Place pan in oven and roast pork chops from 5-10 minutes, depending on thickness. They should reach 135F. on a meat thermometer. Let them rest 10 minutes.
• 5. Place cooked egg noodles on each plate and add one chop on each plate. Ladle gravy over noodles and serve extra gravy in a bowl on table.

SOUTHERN SMOTHERED PORK CHOPS IN BROWN GRAVY

Steps:

• Melt butter in a 3-quart saucepan over medium-low heat. Cook onion and garlic in the butter, stirring occasionally, until is browned, 7 to 10 minutes. Remove onion and garlic and set aside.
• Stir flour slowly into butter. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until flour is deep brown, 7 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat. Gradually stir in broth. Add onion, garlic, mushrooms, and parsley. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat.
• Coat a large skillet with cooking spray and heat over medium-high heat. Season pork chops with salt and pepper and brown in the hot pan, 5 to 7 minutes per side. Add gravy mixture from the saucepan. Cover and cook over low heat until tender and no longer pink in the centers, 30 to 40 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read 145 degrees F (63 degrees C).

PORK CHOPS WITH GINGERSNAP GRAVY

Steps:

• In a skillet, brown chops in hot oil on both sides.
• Drain on paper towels.
• Place chops in a baking dish.
• Drain excess fat from skillet.
• Add onion and 1 1/4 cups water.
• Cover and simmer 2 minutes or until onions are tender.
• Add remaining ingredients.
• Cook and stir just until bubbly.
• Gravy will thicken with the gingersnaps.
• Spoon over chops.
• Bake, covered, in 375 degree oven for 50-55 minutes or until hot-- OR-- cover skillet and allow to simmer on low for 40 minutes.

COUNTRY PORK CHOPS WITH MUSHROOM GRAVY

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 deg.
• In 10" skillet brown pork chops over med-high heat (1-2 min per side).
• Season both sides with salt and pepper.
• Place in 13x9" baking pan and cover with onions.
• Add chicken broth, thyme and garlic powder to skillet drippings.
• Stir; pour over pork chops and onions.
• Cover with foil; bake for 60-70 min.
• or until tender.
• Place on serving platter; keep warm.
• Pour liquid from baking pan into 10" skillet.
• Cook over medium heat until mixture just comes to a boil (1-2 min).
• Meanwhile, in jar with lid, combine water, flour, salt and pepper; shake to mix.
• Slowly stir flour mixture into hot liquid in skillet.
• Continue cooking, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a full boil; boil 1 min.
• Add mushrooms; cook 2 minutes.
• Reduce heat to low.
• Stir in sour cream.
• Continue cooking, stirring constantly, until heated through (1-2 min).
• Serve gravy over pork chops.
• (Gravy also good on baked potatoes).

GINGERSNAP GRAVY

Steps:

• Combine the seasoning mix ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.
• Melt the fat and butter in a large skillet over medium heat.
• When almost melted, add the onions, celery, and garlic; saute 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in the seasoning mix and cook 5 minutes more, stirring occasionally.
• Add the stock and pan drippings; bring to a boil over high heat and boil rapidly until liquid reduces to about 1 quart, about 25 minutes.
• Then crumble the gingersnaps into the stock mixture and whisk with a metal whisk until they are dissolved.
• Continue cooking 10 minutes, whisking frequently and making sure the gingersnaps are thoroughly dissolved.
• During this time, taste the gravy; if the ginger flavour is not pronounced,m add the 1 tablespoon brown sugar and the 1 teaspoon ginger or add both to taste.
• Strain the gravy.

PAUL PRUDHOMME'S ROAST PORK WITH GINGERSNAP GRAVY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• Saute onion, green bell pepper, celery, garlic, salt, pepper, paprika, thyme, and mustard in butter in large heavy skillet over medium-high heat for 4-5 minutes or until vegetables soften; remove from heat.
• Place roast in shallow roasting pan; fat side up.
• Make several slits with sharp knife in the top of the roast, cutting downward, but not through to the bottom.
• Stuff pockets with the vegetable filling.
• Roast in preheated oven for 1 hours or more, or until a meat thermometer reads the temperature you desire (160 degrees-for medium; 170 degrees for well-done).
• Remove roast from pan; keep warm; reserve pan drippings.
• To prepare gingersnap gravy, pour off pan juices into a 1 cup measure; skim off fat.
• Add enough water to make 1 cup and pour back into the pan.
• Set pan on top of the stove over medium-high heat, and simmer for 2 minutes, scraping brown bits from the bottom of the pan; remove from heat.
• Saute chopped onion, chopped celery, minced garlic in butter in large skillet for 4-6 minutes.
• Add ginger, salt, pepper, thyme, sage, and cumin, mixing well; cook 5 minutes.
• Add pan juices from roasting pan and the can of beef broth.
• Bring all to the boiling, then lower heat and simmer, uncovered, for 3 minutes.
• Break gingersnaps into pieces and add to skillet.
• Cook gravy until cookies absorb liquid, then whisk until smooth; simmer 10 minutes more.
• Strain gravy, and keep warm.
• To serve, slice pork into medallions, and spoon a little gravy over meat; serve extra gravy on the table.