Recipe Challenge Day 9 – Apples and Pork Chops

Apples, cranberries and stuffing gives pork chops a make over.

This recipe I found using ifood on my phone (got to love mobile!)

Ingredients:

1/2 teaspoons butter

2  apples sliced

1 teaspoon brown sugar

1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt (I omitted this)

4 bone in pork chops, 3/4 inch thick and trimmed (about 2lbs)

1 cup apple cider or juice

2 tablespoons butter

1 1/2 cups stuffing ( use GF bread if your not able to eat gluten) 

1/4 cup dried cranberries

fresh parsley

One medium onion sliced (optional ) 

Directions:

Heat oven to 375. Spray or brush 1/2 teaspoon butter on the bottom of a 13×9 inch glass baking dish. Spread apples in dish (if you plan on the onions layer them with the apples.)  In small bowl mix the flour, brown sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle over apples. Sprinkle seasoning salt if using on both sides of pork (I’m not a fan of salt, so I skipped this step) Place pork chops over apples.

In 2 quart saucepan, heat apple juice and the 2 tablespoons butter to boiling over med-high heat. Stir in stuffing and cranberries. Cover, remove from heat and let stand for about 5 minutes. Fluff mixture and scoop stuffing over each pork chop.

Spray sheet of foil with cooking spray and place it down over the baking dish. Bake for 40-50 minutes . Bake 5-10 minutes uncovered towards the end or until the pork chops are no longer pink. (temp should reach 160) Sprinkle with fresh parsley.

I redid this one from a year or so ago, but I used GF bread to make the stuffing. It turned out gread and I did it in the slow cooker, so the recipe is very easy to spruce up and do more with!