Pork Chops: Picante

On a VERY rainy Saturday, I created a new fast (and according to my family) tasty recipe for pork chops.  The whole meal took about 45 minutes to make including prep work and cooking.  Here is the recipe – Enjoy!

  1. Ingredients:

    • 4-6 pork chops bone-in;   (The number of chops depends on the size of your cast iron frying pan)
    • 2 large sweet onions
    • 1 large red bell pepper (you can substitute a green pepper or poblano pepper)
    • 8 oz fresh mushrooms
    • 1 cup of red wine
    • 2 table spoons of olive oil (or avocado oil) for the pork chops
    • 2 table spoons of olive oil for the mushrooms
    • 1 tsp cumin
    • 1 tbsp salt
    • black pepper to taste
  2. Preparation Pork Chops with onions mushrooms Pork Chops Waiting

    • pat dry the pork chops
    • heat the olive (or avocado) oil in a cast iron pan 
    • place the pork chops in the pan and sear 1 minute per side to seal them up
    • continue searing on high heat for another 3 minutes per side
    • take out on a plate
    • in the same pan add the sliced onion and red peppers and fry until the onion is translucent
    • Add the red wine, salt, cumin
    • Separately heat the rest of the oil in a frying pan and stir fry the mushrooms which has been washed and sliced
  3. Once the onion, pepper and wine mixture has simmered down – add back the pork chops to heat them through
  4. Now you are ready to serve.
  5. You may sprinke some chopped parsley on the combination 

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