---
title: "Pork Chop Normandy"
date: 2023-12-03
tags: ["recipes", "pork", "apple", "french"]
draft: false
---

- Prep time: <5 min
- Cook time: ~30 min
- Servings: 2

# Ingredients

### Groceries

- 1 apple (royal gala or similar)
- 1 or 2 tsp calvados
- 100 ml heavy cream
- 150 ml apple cider
- 2 pork chops
- Butter
- Chicken stock (optional)
- Dijon mustard (optional)
- Leek (optional)
- Shallots (optional)

### Side Dish Suggestion

- [Mashed potato](/recipes/mashed-potatoes)
- Pan fried potatoes

# Directions

1. Prepare side dish, e.g. peel potatoes
2. Turn on the oven and set it to ~80°C

### Mise en Place

#### Sauce

Ingredients:

- 1 Apple
- Leek (optional)
- Shallots (optional)

1. Peel the **apple** and chop it into thin slices
2. Optionally chop the **shallots** and **leek**

### Cooking

#### Pork

Cooking time: ~15 min

Ingredients:

- Pork chops
- Salt

1. Preseason the **pork chops** with salt
2. Turn the pan to 6/9
3. When hot, add **clarified butter** or **olive oil** and place the **chops** in the pan
4. Cook the **chops** for 4 min on each side and turn 3 times
5. Place the **chops** on a rack an into to the oven

### Sauce

Ingredients:

- 1 or 2 tsp calvados
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard (optional)
- 100 ml heavy cream
- 150 ml apple cider
- Chicken stock (optional)
- Chopped apple
- Chopped shallots, leek (all optional)

1. Add butter to the pan
2. Add chopped **apples** (**shallots** and **leek**) and fry until cooked nicely
3. Deglaze with the **cider** and cook for a couple of min
4. Add the **cream** (and optionally a small amount of chicken stock, e.g. 100 ml), cook
   for a couple of min.
5. Add **calvados**
6. Optionally add **Dijon**
7. Season to taste
8. Add back the **pork chops**

# Source

Most of recipe stolen from this [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6885ZmOdgNA).