July 13th, 2011
What’s For Dinner?, Pork Chops With Caper Sauce, Recipe, Easy, The Sauce Makes This Recipe
Woke up early in Delray Beach, Florida. There was a plane to catch. Comfortably seated on Southwest with 2 well behaved boys next to me. That’s when the screams started. Not an emergency; a little toddler. She screamed for over an hour and she was in closed proximity to my seat.
And, guess what? Upon landing, she decided to fall asleep. You know what my thoughts were, right?
After driving for a few hours I was received in Rehoboth with the question I had not heard for a whole week. What’s for dinner? A blank look is what I returned. I regained my composure. Yeah, it was back to reality. Off to Giant I went and the following recipe is what I thought would be good for dinner.
Pork Chops with Caper Sauce
4 lean pork chops, about 1 1/4 inch thick
salt and pepper to taste (optional)
2 tablespoons salad oil
1 cup chopped onions
2 tablespoons finely chopped garlic
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 cup of chicken broth
4 tablespoons of drained capers
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon tomato paste
2 tablespoons of fresh sage
1 tablespoon butter
parsley for garnish
Heat salad oil in a skillet large enough to hold chops in 1 layer. Add chops and cook over medium-high heat for 7 minutes on each side. They should be lightly browned.
Remove chops and keep warm. I just put them on a plate.
Since the chops should be lean, no need to pour off excess fat from the skillet. Add onions and garlic and cook until wilted.
Then, add vinegar, cook for a minute or so. Continue then by adding the chicken broth, capers, mustard, tomato paste and sage. Cook for about 3 minutes or until nice and hot but not boiling.
Reduce heat to low and add the pork chops with any juices that accumulated on the plate back into the pan and heat. Swirl in butter and check the seasonings.
This sauce is so delicious. And, the recipe can easily be doubled. I usually do that because I like a lot of sauce with the pork chops.
I mashed yams, put a little brown sugar and that was our dinner this evening.
Garnish with a little bit of parsley, if you want.
Note: This recipe is gluten free. If you don’t like yams, then you know what to do; mashed potatoes, rice, or polenta.
Talk to you later….Remember to make it your own….
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