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Cider, Apple and Mustard Pork Chops with Mash
Chops seared then finished in the oven in a cider, apple and mustard cream sauce, served with mashed potato.
- Total
- 45 min
- Hands on
- 25 min
- Serves
- 2
- Method
- oven
- Cuisine
- French
Per serving · estimated
- Energy
- 980 kcal
- Protein
- 50 g
- Fat
- 60 g
- Carbs
- 60 g

Method
Step 1 of 12
Heat the oven to 200°C.

Step 2 of 12
Peel the potatoes and cut them into even cubes.
Floury potatoes

Step 3 of 12
Boil the potatoes in salted water for 18 minutes, until a fork slides in easily.
Floury potatoes
Salt

Step 4 of 12
Slice the onion into thin half-moons and slice the apple.
Onion
Eating apple

Step 5 of 12
Season the chops on both sides with salt and pepper.
Pork chops
Salt
Black pepper
Step 6 of 12
Heat the olive oil in an ovenproof pan and sear the chops for 3 minutes each side, then lift them out.
Olive oil
Pork chops

Step 7 of 12
Cook the onion and apple in the same pan for 4 minutes until softened and golden at the edges.
Onion
Eating apple

What ‘ready’ looks like Step 8 of 12
Pour in the cider and scrape the base clean, then bubble for 2 minutes.
Dry cider

Step 9 of 12
Stir in the mustard, cream and chopped sage.
Wholegrain mustard
Double cream
Fresh sage
Step 10 of 12
Sit the chops back in the sauce and bake for 13 minutes, until the pork reaches 63 °C.
Pork chops
Step 11 of 12
Drain the potatoes and mash with the butter and milk, then season.
Floury potatoes
Butter
Milk
Salt
Black pepper

Step 12 of 12
Rest the chops for 3 minutes, then plate with the mash and spoon the sauce over.
Pork chops
Floury potatoes
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Twenty minutes instead of forty. No oven. Four people, not two. No dairy, and the onion ran out. The app rewrites the recipe around what is actually true tonight, then merges the shopping into one list ordered the way you walk a supermarket.
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