Pan Fried Pork Chops with apple and blue cheese sauce, served with caramelized onions, a perfectly balanced flavored meal.
If you are looking for a recipe to make on a special occasion, you have just found the right one for you. After searching for things in my fridge to pair with some pork chops that I had. The ? idea just came up. Apples, onions, mmm blue cheese what I can do with this? ? A sauce!
One of my goals in the kitchen is to prevent food waste. I tested a Potato Gratin recipe using blue cheese. The amount used from the container wasn’t much. Good thing I bought some pork chops!
What you will need to make your Pan-Fried Pork Chops?
The utensils needed for this recipe would be a knife, a cutting board, a deep frying pan, and a cooking tong. To make, this pan-fried pork chops with apple and blue cheese sauce you will need the following ingredients:
- Bone-in pork chops
- seasonings: salt, black pepper, dry thyme
- apples (one gala, one granny smith)
- yellow onion
- chicken stock
- olive oil
- garlic
How to cook the Pan Fried Pork Chops?
If your pork chops have too much fat on the edges, you can trim them. To start, you will need to season the pork chops with the seasonings: salt, black pepper, garlic, and dry thyme. Set aside, so the pork chops start absorbing the flavors. Next, peel and dice your apples into small cubes. Then, julienne your onion. Move to the cooking part.
The first thing we are going to do is the caramelized onion. This part of the recipe will take a little longer to be ready, so let’s get started. Heat up your frying pan to medium heat. Add a tsp of the olive oil to it. Now, proceed to add the julienne onions and saute for at least 15 minutes until they have become brown. If you see that it has been drying out, you can add a couple of teaspoons of water to the pan. Remove the caramelized onions from the pan and set aside.
Add more oil to the pan and let it heat up. Sear each pork chop for about 3-4 minutes on each side. Do this in batches and set aside. Next, add more olive oil to the pan, and cook the apples for a couple of minutes. Add the chicken stock and the blue cheese, stir and cook for two more minutes. Add back the pork chops and the caramelized onions and let them simmer in the sauce for 5 minutes.
The result would be a tasty, juicy pan-fried pork chop with apple and blue cheese sauce and caramelized onions.
How can these chops be accompanied?
You can serve it with:
- simple mash potato
- white rice
- if you prefer a low carb option a cauliflower rice
- a simple green salad
Pan Fried Pork Chops with Apple and Blue Cheese Sauce
Ingredients
- 6 bone-in pork chops, aprox (4 ounces each)
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon dry thyme
- 1 teaspoon chopped garlic, (aprox 1 clove chopped)
- 1 yellow onion
- 1 gala apple
- 1 granny smith apple
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
Sauce
- 1 tablespoon crumbled blue cheese
- 3/4 cup chicken stock
Instructions
- Season the pork chops with the seasonings: salt, black pepper, garlic and dry thyme. Set aside, so the pork chops start absorbing the flavors.
- Peel and dice the apples into small cubes and juliennes the onion.
- Heat up your frying pan to medium heat and add a tsp of the olive oil to it. Once the oil is hot, add the julienne onions and saute for at least 15 minutes until they brown. If you see that it has been drying out, you can add a couple of teaspoons of water to the pan. Remove the caramelized onions from the pan and set aside.
- Add another teaspoon of oil to the pan and let it heat up. Sear each pork chop for about 3-4 minutes on each side. Do this in batches and set aside.
- Next, add the last teaspoon of olive oil to the pan, and cook the apples for a couple of minutes. Add the chicken stock and the blue cheese, stir and cook for two more minutes.
- Add back the pork chops and the caramelized onions and let them simmer in the sauce for 5 minutes.
- Now your pan fried pork chops are ready to be devoured! Enjoy!
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Laura
What a great idea, I usually cook pork with apple but never thought of adding blue cheese. and I would add cheese everywhere. I will give this a try.
Corina Blum
This sounds delicious! I don’t use blue cheese very often but I’m sure it goes really well here with the apple too.
Michelle @ Pineneedlesinmysalad
Great bold flavors in this pork dish. Sounds delicious! I love apples with pork too and adding in the blue cheese sounds just perfect. I’ve never tried that before and love the idea.