Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Pork Chop Piccata


I like to follow along with Pioneer Woman's blog, and have my own account over at Tasty Kitchen. One day, Ree submitted a delicious chicken piccata recipe (here). I made it and the hubby and I both really enjoyed it. Recently, however, I had found myself wanting that tasty piccata sauce. Short on chicken, I decided to use some boneless pork chops. Hey, pork is the other white meat, right? So I followed along with the recipe for the most part, changing a couple things here and there to suit our tastes. And voila!
It was delicious! VERY delicious. I made the recipe with only 2 chops, but still made the full amount of sauce, that way I could have it over pasta for lunch the next day!

Pork Chop Piccata
(adapted from Pioneer Woman's Chicken Piccata)

4 boneless pork chops (1/2-3/4inch thick)
1/4 c. flour
salt & pepper
4 tbl. butter 
4 tbl. olive oil
3/4 c. white wine (I like using those cute 4 packs of wine that equal up to a full bottle- use 1 sm. bottle here)
1 can chicken broth
Juice from 1 lemon (I'm used to big and juicy lemons, you may need to use 2 to get more juice)
3/4 c. heavy cream
slurry of 2 tbl. cornstarch and 1/4 c. water (optional)
cooked spaghetti

Sprinkle the chops with salt and pepper, then dredge in the flour.
Heat up a skillet over medium heat along with half of the butter and half of the oil. Cook two of the chops, until browned and cooked all the way through. Then put the rest of the butter and oil in the pan and cook the remaining chops. Set aside someplace to keep warm.
Pour into the skillet the wine, chicken broth and lemon juice. Cook over medium heat until it has reduced by half, scraping up all of the tasty browned bits on the bottom. Season with some salt and pepper.
Reduce the heat to low and add in the cream. Cook and stir until the sauce has thickened up a bit.
At this point, if you want the sauce to be more like a gravy, add in the slurry and watch it thicken up!
Taste the sauce and add more lemon juice if you want more tang, more cream if you want less tang.
Serve sauce over the chops and some spaghetti!

This recipe is linked up at:

8 comments:

  1. This looks good, I love PW's recipes. I like to use those little things of wine too, thanks!

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  2. Oh my goodness this looks delicious! I can't wait to try this recipe! It's going in my recipe tab on my blog! Thanks so much for linking to my party!

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  3. My mouth is watering... I think I need a midnight snack!! Yum! I'm stopping by from NFF. Love your blog! We have a give-away going on at Oopsey Daisy if you'd like to come by! Have a great weekend!

    ~Alison
    http://oopsey-daisy.blogspot.com/

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  4. I'm always looking for new ways to cook pork chops. This is going into my must try file. Thanks for sharing it!!

    :)
    ButterYum

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  5. Yum! I always make chicken piccata..never thought of using pork!

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    Hope you have a wonderful weekend :)
    ~Shelley @ Shelley's Swag

    www.shelleysswag.blogspot.com

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  6. It looks delicious! Thanks for linking up for Friday Favorites!

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  7. Oooh! I'm definitely not a pork chop conossieur, but would like to try making them more often. I'll definitely be trying this. Thank you for sharing this recipe at the Recipe Share Party!

    Happy Weekend!
    -Sarah

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