Baked Pork Chops with Braised Red Cabbage and Apples
Tender, baked pork chops served with sweet and tangy braised cabbage. You could also serve the chops with boiled miniature potatoes and asparagus or other green vegetable.
Recipe - Quality Foods
Baked Pork Chops with Braised Red Cabbage and Apples
Prep Time30 Minutes
Servings3
Cook Time79 Minutes
Ingredients
4 large pork chops
salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp ground sage
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
3/4 cup unsweetened apple juice
1 3/4 cups chicken stock (divided)
2 Tbsp butter
3 cups cored and shredded red cabbage (about 1/2 small to medium head)
1/2 medium onion, diced
3 Tbsp brown sugar
2 Tbsp cider vinegar or rice vinegar
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
pinches ground nutmeg and ground cloves
1 bay leaf
1 medium apple, cored and cut into small cubes
Directions
- Set out a 13- x 9-inch baking dish. Pat chops dry with paper towel. With a sharp knife, make a few slits into the fat/rind side of each chop. This should prevent the chops from curling up when they cook. Season chops with salt and pepper. Combine flour and sage on a wide plate or pieplate.
- Preheat oven to 325 F. Place oil in a large skillet set over medium-high heat. Coat each chop in the flour mixture. Set the chops in the skillet, in two batches, if needed, and brown about 3 minutes per side. Set browned chops in the baking dish. Drain oil/fat from the skillet, and then pour in the apple juice and 3/4 cup of the chicken stock. Bring to a simmer, and then pour over the chops. Tightly cover chops with foil and bake 75 minutes, or until tender.
- While chops cook, make cabbage by placing butter in a medium pot set over medium, medium-high heat. When butter is melted, add cabbage and onions and cook and stir until softened, 4 to 5 minutes. Add remaining 1 cup of stock, sugar, vinegar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, bay leaf and cubed apple. Season cabbage with salt and pepper, bring to a simmer, reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and cook 20 minutes, stirring once or twice, or until cabbage is tender. Remove cabbage from the heat.
- When chops are cooked, set cabbage back over the heat to make hot again. Plate the chops, top with the juices in the baking dish, and serve with the cabbage.
30 minutes
Prep Time
79 minutes
Cook Time
3
Servings
Shop Ingredients
Makes 3 servings
Pork - Loin Chops Rib End Family Pack, 600 Gram
$7.92 avg/ea$1.32/100g
Windsor - Salt & Pepper Shakers, 155 Gram
$6.49$4.19/100g
Western Family - All Purpose White Flour, 2.5 Kilogram
$5.99 was $6.39$0.24/100g
Western Family - Sage - Ground, 78 Gram
$5.99$7.68/100g
Crisco - Vegetable Oil, 1.18 Litre
$10.49 was $10.99$0.89/100ml
SunRype - Pure Apple Juice Unsweetened, 1 Litre
$2.99$0.30/100ml
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Cabbage - Red, Fresh, 975 Gram
$2.77 avg/ea was $3.85 avg/ea$0.28/100g
Onions - Yellow, Medium, 215 Gram
$0.94 avg/ea$0.44/100g
Rogers - Dark Brown Sugar, 1kg, 1 Kilogram
$3.99 was $4.39$0.40/100g
Bragg - Apple Cider Vinegar - Organic, 946 Millilitre
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Mccormick - Ground Cinnamon, 42 Gram
$5.49 was $6.19$13.07/100g
Club House - Ground Nutmeg, 39 Gram
$6.69$17.15/100g
Western Family - Bay Leaves, 22 Gram
$4.59$20.86/100g
Apples - SugarBee Apples, 165 Gram
$1.63 avg/ea$0.99/100g
Directions
- Set out a 13- x 9-inch baking dish. Pat chops dry with paper towel. With a sharp knife, make a few slits into the fat/rind side of each chop. This should prevent the chops from curling up when they cook. Season chops with salt and pepper. Combine flour and sage on a wide plate or pieplate.
- Preheat oven to 325 F. Place oil in a large skillet set over medium-high heat. Coat each chop in the flour mixture. Set the chops in the skillet, in two batches, if needed, and brown about 3 minutes per side. Set browned chops in the baking dish. Drain oil/fat from the skillet, and then pour in the apple juice and 3/4 cup of the chicken stock. Bring to a simmer, and then pour over the chops. Tightly cover chops with foil and bake 75 minutes, or until tender.
- While chops cook, make cabbage by placing butter in a medium pot set over medium, medium-high heat. When butter is melted, add cabbage and onions and cook and stir until softened, 4 to 5 minutes. Add remaining 1 cup of stock, sugar, vinegar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, bay leaf and cubed apple. Season cabbage with salt and pepper, bring to a simmer, reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and cook 20 minutes, stirring once or twice, or until cabbage is tender. Remove cabbage from the heat.
- When chops are cooked, set cabbage back over the heat to make hot again. Plate the chops, top with the juices in the baking dish, and serve with the cabbage.