Pork chops with white wine, garlic and parsley

The manner of cooking these delicious pork chops comes from Périgord in southern France.  It is easy to prepare and required no specialist ingredients.

Preparation Time: 5 Mins

Cooking Time: 35 Mins

Total Time: 40 Mins

Ingredients

For 4 servings…

4                    Pork chops

2 tbs               Fat  - pork  

                     Pepper      

                     Salt          

170 ml             Wine  - white          

1 tbs               Breadcrumbs  - fresh 

2 cloves            Garlic  - chopped finely          

1 tbs               Parsley  - chopped    

Method

Fry the chops in a heavy pan in half the fat with salt and pepper for 30 minutes, turning them after 15 minutes and keeping the flame low and the lid on the pan.  Remove them to a dish and keep them warm.

Pour the fat from the pan and deglaze with the white wine.  Turn up the heat and let the wine bubble fiercely for a minute or two while scraping up any residue and the meat juices to amalgamate them with the wine.

In the meantime, in a separate pan fry the breadcrumbs and garlic in the remainder of the fat until golden brown.

Stir in the parsley and scatter it over the chops.  Pour over them the sauce made with the wine and serve very hot.

Serve With

          Mashed potato

          Gherkins

Wine recommendations

          A robust red wine.

  Conventional

           Gaillac

  Interesting

           Cahors

           Corbières

           Fitou

           Rasteau