Pork Chops with Mushroom Bread Pudding

Name: Pork Chops with Mushroom Bread Pudding
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 227 grams baguette (or other crusty bread), cut into 1/2-inch cubes (about 1 quart); 2 Tbsps butter; 1 rib celery, chopped; 315 milliliters canned low-sodium chicken broth or homemade stock; 1 Tbsp cooking oil; 1 teaspoon dried thyme; 3 eggs, beaten to mix; 1 teaspoons fresh-ground black pepper; 158 milliliters half-and-half; 340 grams mushrooms, cut into thin slices; 1 onion, chopped; 4 center-cut pork chops, about 1-inch thick (about 2 pounds in all); 1 teaspoon salt

Pork Chops with Mushroom Bread Pudding might be a good recipe to expand your main course recipe box. One portion of this dish contains roughly 43g of protein, 29g of fat, and a total of 579 calories. This recipe serves 4. This recipe covers 34% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have fresh-ground pepper, cooking oil, thyme, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the cooking oil you could follow this main course with the Raw blueberry cheesecake with crumb topping as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

Heat the oven to 32

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Butter a 9-by-13-inch baking dish or a gratin dish of similar size. In a large nonstick frying pan, melt the butter over moderately low heat.

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Butter

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Add the onion and celery; cook, stirring occasionally, until starting to soften, about 3 minutes. Increase the heat to moderately high.

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Onion

Add the mushrooms and thyme and cook until the mushrooms start to brown, about 5 minutes.

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Thyme

Remove the pan from the heat. Stir in the bread cubes, 3/4 teaspoon of the salt, and 1/4 teaspoon of the pepper.

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Salt

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Transfer the mixture to the prepared baking dish.

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Stir together the broth, eggs, and half-and-half.

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Egg

Pour the mixture evenly over the mushrooms and bread.

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Bread

Put the dish in the lower third of the oven and bake for 25 minutes.

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Meanwhile, heat the oil in the frying pan over moderate heat.

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Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 teaspoon each salt and pepper over the pork chops.

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Pork Chops

Add the chops to the pan and brown, about 3 minutes per side.

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Remove the chops from the pan.

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Remove the bread pudding from the oven after it bakes for 25 minutes and set the pork chops directly on top. Return to the oven and cook until the meat is done and the pudding is just set, 10 to 15 minutes longer.

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Pork Chops

Bread

Meat

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Wine Recommendation: Pork and mushrooms each have an incredible affinity for pinot noir, so this combination of the two makes for an easy choice. Favor a slightly earthy French Burgundy over its fruitier brethren from other countries. A premier cru wine offers complexity and concentrated fruit flavor; a village-level wine will be lighter and simpler.

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Servings:

227grams

baguette (or other crusty bread), cut into 1/2-inch cubes (about 1 quart)2Tbsps

butter 1rib

celery, chopped 315milliliters

canned low-sodium chicken broth or homemade stock 1Tbsp

cooking oil 1teaspoon

dried thyme 3

eggs, beaten to mix 1teaspoons

fresh-ground black pepper 158milliliters

half-and-half 340grams

mushrooms, cut into thin slices 1

onion, chopped 4

center-cut pork chops, about 1-inch thick (about 2 pounds in all)1teaspoon

salt

Recommended wine: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Riesling

Pork Chops works really well with Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Riesling. Chardonnay suits simple chops or chops in a butter or cream sauce, dry riesling complements sweet additions like honey mustard or apples, and pinot noir is a safe bet for pork dishes in general. You could try Frank Family Vineyards Lewis Vineyard Reserve Chardonnay. Reviewers quite like it with a 5 out of 5 star rating and a price of about 62 dollars per bottle.