Pork without apple is like ‘’slap chips’’ without vinegar……..

Pork chops with apple sauce and crushed herb potatoes

 

Ingredients:  Pork chops with apple sauce

2tbsp                    Oil

2                            Pork chops

½                          Onions, sliced

2tbsp                    Balsamic vinegar

120ml                   Chenin blanc

1tbsp                     White sugar

120ml                   Water

40ml                     Cream

½                          Green apple, skin on and cut into wedges

½                          Red apple, skin on and cut into wedges

 

 

Method:

Sear pork chops in hot pan with oil.  Season with salt and pepper and cook for 2 minutes on each side.  Remove from pan and keep aside while preparing the sauce.  In the same pan:  fry onion until golden brown, add more oil if necessary.  Add balsamic vinegar, chenin blanc, white sugar and water and bring to the boil.  Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.  Add the pork chops back into the pan with cream and apple wedges.  Simmer for another 10 minutes and serve with crushed herb potatoes.

 

 

Ingredients: Crushed herb potatoes

2tbsp                   Canola oil

Spring onion, chopped

4                           Medium potatoes (cut into wedges and roasted with skin on for 20 minutes)

2tbsp                   Butter

10ml                    Chopped chives

5ml                      Lemon zest

60ml                    Full cream milk

 

 

Method:

Heat canola oil in a pan and add spring onions.  Fry for 2 minutes and add roasted potatoes, butter, chopped chives, lemon zest, salt, pepper and full cream milk.  Fry for 5 minutes and take a whisk and crush the potatoes in the pan.