Best Pork Recipe Found So Far This Year

Best Pork Recipe Found So Far This Year!!

On my grocery store coupon "jaunt" this past weekend, our local market had a BOGO (Buy-1-Get-1) on Pork Loin Cutlets (the thicker pork chops). Naturally, I bought some and played around with a few different recipes to get one that turned out to be the very BEST pork recipe this year - maybe ever......

(By the way, I got $279.65 in free groceries between BOGO's, coupons,

and sale items! More on that strategy later!!)

This recipe is SO EASY and SO YUMMY - I hope you'll try it and love it as much as we did.

(Is anyone really reading these BLOG entries? If so, could you let me know?? Thx!)

Pork Cutlets/Chops in Mushrooms and Tomatoes

• 4 pork boneless cutlet/chops - thicker than ordinary thin-sliced chops - maybe called "butterflied chops?"
• 1 tbsp. flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/4 tsp. black pepper
• 1/2 tsp. garlic salt
• 2 - 3 tbsp. butter (as Julia Child would say - "You can never have too much butter....")
• 1/2 tbsp.minced onions
• 8 to 12 oz. fresh mushrooms - sliced (you could use canned, but fresh is much better)
• 2 cans - 15 oz. - diced tomatoes
• 3/4 cups chicken broth (I buy the Swanson cartons and refrigerate leftovers)
• 1 tsp. dried parsley flakes
• 2 tbsp. Extra-Virgin olive oil

Drizzle olive oil in a large skillet. Put flour, salt, and pepper in a shallow bowl and dredge each pork cutlet/chop until coated in the flour mixture. Brown the pork pieces in the olive oil in the skillet until slightly golden on all sides. Remove pork from skillet.

Add garlic salt, minced onion, mushrooms and butter to the skillet and cook until the mushrooms are tender and butter is completely melted. Add the chicken broth, dried parsley flakes, and diced tomatoes. Bring to a boil. Reduce temp. to "simmer." Add the browned cutlet/chops and continue to simmer for 20 to 25 minutes until the meat is tender. And "voila!!!" - melt-in-your-mouth-tender-juicy-pork!!!

You can serve the prepared pork cutlet/chops with rice - or even noodles - but we enjoyed it without any extras! Well,maybe a glass of wine - but that's a "given."