Skillet Apple Pork Chops with Roasted Sweet Potatoes & Zucchini

Ingredients

• 2 Potatoes
• 1 Apples
• 2 cloves Garlic
• 1 Lemon
• 2 Pork
• 1 Zucchini
• 1 Chicken Stock
• 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil
• 1 1/2 tsp Sugar
• 2 tbsp Butter

Quantities are the original recipe’s. The cost is our own estimate — typical own-brand supermarket prices for these quantities, divided by 4 servings. TheMealDB does not state how many a dish serves, so 4 is our assumption, not theirs. Treat it as “about this much a head”, not a shopping bill.

Method

1. Heat the oven to 450 degrees, with racks set at the top and middle.
2. Cut the sweet potatoes into half-inch chunks, spread on a baking tray with a little oil, salt and pepper, and roast on the top rack for 12 minutes.
3. While that cooks, halve and core the apple and slice into thin half-moons, finely chop the garlic, quarter the lemon, and cut the courgette into half-inch half-moons.
4. Toss the courgette on a second tray with oil, salt and pepper, and set aside.
5. Pat the pork dry and season well with salt and pepper.
6. Warm some oil in a wide pan set over medium-high heat, then fry the pork for 4-5 minutes on each side until browned and cooked through, and lift onto a plate.
7. Once the sweet potatoes have had their 12 minutes, move the courgette tray to the middle rack too and roast both together for a further 12-15 minutes, until browned and tender.
8. In the same pork pan, melt 1 tbsp of the butter over medium-high heat, add the apple with a little salt and pepper, and cook for 2-3 minutes, scraping up the browned bits from the base of the pan, until softened.
9. Stir in the garlic for 30 seconds, then add the water, chicken stock, and sugar, and simmer for 3-5 minutes until thickened and the apple is very soft.
10. Take the pan off the heat, stir in the remaining butter and a squeeze of lemon juice, and season to taste.
11. Divide the pork, roasted vegetables and sweet potatoes between plates, spoon the apple sauce over the pork, and finish the courgette with a squeeze of lemon juice.

These steps were written by StreetOwl from the original recipe, in British English, with every oven temperature and cooking time checked against the source. They are not the original author’s words. If anything reads oddly, the original is linked below and it wins.