Baked Pork Chops

Keep reading if you want melt in your mouth pork chops. Stop reading if you don't like your recipes to take too much time, because this one takes 1 hr 30 min bake time, but only 15 min of prep. Are you still with me?? Good. Read on.

So me and my deal matching self got a good price (for the City of Chicago) on pork chops. I decided to look for a recipe that didn't involve the crock pot since the last 3 or more meals I made came from it. (What can I say... it gets crazy around here!) Allrecipes.com comes through again :) Here's the recipe http://allrecipes.com/recipe/baked-pork-chops-i/detail.aspx This recipe calls for a can cream of mushroom soup, which I didn't use. I used a homemade cream of chicken that you can find here on my blog. But there is a catch... I didn't have chicken stock, or bullion. What to do?! I didn't want to use water (totally bland boring yuck). I used some of the white wine the pork chop recipe calls for... quite fragrant! The wine was Barefoot's Sauvignon Blanc - it was on sale :)

here's the browning process

 

post soup application

right out of the oven

here's the end result... pork chop goodness!

These were exactly what I was looking for. Not tough bland pork chops. These pretty much fall apart and have plenty of flavor. Even my recipe substitution of wine instead of chicken broth worked out just fine.

I do recommend browning your pork chops until there is a deep brown crust that has formed. That's REALLY good. 

These were even awesome as leftovers... maybe even better. You know how food does that sometimes? Yeah. Real nice.

So, give it a try if you have the time.