Pork Chops With Fruity Red Cabbage Recipes

PORK CHOPS WITH RED CABBAGE

Steps:

• For cabbage:
• Heat oil in heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add cabbage, onion, garlic and marjoram and cook until cabbage and onion are tender, stirring occasionally, about 50 minutes. Stir in balsamic vinegar. Season to taste with salt and pepper. (Can be prepared up to 3 hours ahead. Cover skillet and let stand at room temperature. Bring to simmer before continuing with recipe.)
• For pork:
• Heat oil in another heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Season pork chops with salt and pepper. Rub with marjoram. Add pork chops to skillet and fry until cooked through, turning once, about 6 minutes. Transfer cabbage to platter. Place pork chops atop cabbage. Remove skillet from heat. Add chicken broth and balsamic vinegar to skillet. Stir with wooden spoon, scraping up any browned bits from bottom of skillet. Pour sauce over pork and serve.

SAUTEED PORK CHOPS WITH SWEET-AND-SOUR RED CABBAGE

Steps:

• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 450°F.
• Cook bacon in a 4- to 5-quart wide heavy pot over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until crisp, and transfer with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain. Measure fat and, if less than 2 tablespoons, add enough vegetable oil to bring total to 2 tablespoons. Heat fat over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then cook onion, stirring occasionally, until it begins to turn golden, about 2 minutes. Add cabbage and turn with tongs until coated with fat. Stir in red-wine vinegar, water, sugar, caraway seeds, 3/4teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper and braise cabbage over moderately low heat, covered, stirring occasionally, until tender, 25 to 35 minutes.
• Meanwhile, pat 2 pork chops dry and sprinkle both sides with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper (total). Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking, then brown seasoned chops, turning over once, 5 minutes total, and transfer to a shallow baking pan (1 inch deep). Season remaining 2 chops and brown in oil remaining in skillet in same manner, transferring to baking pan. Roast chops in oven until thermometer inserted horizontally 2 inches into center of a chop (do not touch bone) registers 145°F, 5 to 8 minutes.
• Meanwhile, stir half of bacon into cabbage, then finely chop remaining bacon for sprinkling.
• Let chops stand in pan, loosely covered with foil, 5 minutes. Serve chops over cabbage, with any pan juices spooned over and sprinkled with bacon.

PORK CHOPS WITH RED CABBAGE

Steps:

• For Cabbage--.
• Heat oil in skillet over medium heat.
• Add cabbage, onion, apple, garlic and marjoram and cook until tender, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in balsamic vinegar.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• For Pork--.
• Heat oil in another skillet over medium high heat.
• Season pork chops with salt and pepper.
• Rub with marjoram.
• Add pork chops to skillet and fry until cooked through, turning once, about 6 minutes.
• Transfer cabbage to platter.
• Place pork chops atop cabbage.
• In skillet pork chops were cooked in add chicken broth and balsamic vinegar.
• Stir with wooden spoon, scraping up any browned bits.
• Pour sauce over pork and serve.

CARAWAY PORK CHOPS AND RED CABBAGE

Steps:

• Season pork chops with 1 teaspoon caraway seeds, chicken seasoning and brown sugar. In a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray, brown chops in oil. Remove and keep warm., Add the cabbage, apple, onion, water, vinegar, salt, bouillon granules and remaining caraway seeds to the skillet. Cover and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally., Place chops over cabbage mixture; top each with 1 tablespoon apple jelly. Cover and cook 10-12 minutes longer or until meat is tender.

PORK CHOPS WITH SAUTEED RED CABBAGE

Steps:

• For brine:
• Bring 6 cups water, 1/4 cup kosher salt, 1/4 cup brown sugar, whole allspice, and bay leaves to boil in large saucepan, stirring to dissolve salt and brown sugar. Cool brine completely in refrigerator; add pork chops and refrigerate overnight.
• For red cabbage:
• Heat olive oil in heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add sliced red onion and sauté 2 minutes. Stir in bay leaf, sage sprig, and dried crushed red pepper. Add sliced red cabbage and cook until wilted and crisptender, stirring often, about 10 minutes. DO AHEAD: Can be made 2 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.
• For pork:
• Preheat oven to 300°F. Remove pork chops from brine; pat dry. Season lightly with salt and generously with ground black pepper. Heat olive oil in heavy large ovenproof skillet over high heat. Cook pork chops in skillet until browned, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer skillet to oven and cook until thermometer inserted horizontally into pork chops registers 145°F, about 7 minutes. Transfer pork to plate (do not clean skillet). Add chicken broth, beef broth, thyme sprig, sage leaves, rosemary sprig, and parsley sprig to skillet and boil until liquid is reduced to 1/2 cup, about 9 minutes. Discard herbs. Whisk in 1 teaspoon chopped sage and 1 tablespoon butter. Keep warm.
• Rewarm cabbage. Stir in remaining 2 tablespoons butter and 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Divide cabbage among plates. Place 1 pork chop on each plate. Drizzle pork with sauce and serve.

BRAISED PORK CHOPS WITH CABBAGE

Steps:

• Sprinkle pork chops with salt and pepper. Pour oil in a large, straight-sided skillet; place skillet over high heat. Add pork chops; cook until brown, about 3 minutes on each side. Transfer to a plate; set aside.
• Add cabbage, caraway seeds, thyme, salt and pepper to taste, cider, and stock to skillet, and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat to medium, and simmer, stirring occasionally, 12 minutes.
• Meanwhile, julienne the leek, and let stand in cold water 5 minutes to remove dirt and sand. Lift from the water, stir the leeks into the cabbage, replace cover, and cook 5 minutes. Add the reserved pork chops, in a single layer. Cover, and cook until the pork chops are tender or when an instant-read thermometer registers 145 degrees, about 8 minutes. Remove from heat, and serve immediately with carrot and parsnip puree.