Thick Pork Chops Italian Sausage Baked With Wedged Sweet Potatoes Italian Style Recipes

PORK CHOPS ITALIANO

Steps:

• Heat 1 teaspoon olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in mushrooms; cook and stir until mushrooms are tender, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer the mushrooms to a bowl and set aside.
• Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil in the skillet over medium heat. Add the pork chops, browning on both sides, 7 to 10 minutes. Place the pork chops on a plate, then drain all but 1 tablespoon of drippings from the skillet. Stir in the garlic and onion; cook and stir until the onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes.
• Pour in the tomatoes, then season with basil, oregano, salt, and pepper. Transfer the pork chops back to the skillet; cover and simmer until the pork chops are tender and no longer pink in the center, about 45 minutes. Stir in some water if the mixture becomes too dry. Place the bell pepper on top of the pork, then add the reserved mushrooms. Continue to simmer until the bell pepper is tender, 5 to 10 minutes.

STUFFED ITALIAN PORK CHOPS

Steps:

• Remove sausage meat from casing.
• Fry meat, garlic, chopped onion in olive oil until meat is cooked and garlic and onion are brown.
• Lower heat on frying pan and add the stewed tomatoes.
• Slowly cook mixture for about 15 minutes, stirring so contents do not stick to pan.
• Empty contents into a separate dish and add bread crumbs, basil and red pepper.
• Stir until mixture is moldable.
• Cut thick pork chops down the side to make a pocket.
• Stuff each pork chop with stuffing mixture until full.
• Use toothpicks to hold chops together.
• In frying pan, add chicken broth, mushrooms and some chopped garlic.
• Cook until garlic is brown.
• Add pork chops.
• Cook pork chops on low heat until meat is white (about one hour).
• Baste chops with juices from pan.
• Serve with mushrooms on top of each pork chop.
• Serves eight.

ITALIAN STYLE PORK CHOPS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, combine the crushed saltines, Parmesan cheese, Italian-style seasoning and garlic powder and mix together well.
• Dip the chops in the melted butter and then dredge each chop in the cracker mixture, coating all sides thoroughly. Place the chops in a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Bake at 425 degrees F (220 degrees C) for 30 to 40 minutes, or until internal pork temperature reaches 145 degrees F (63 degrees C).

THICK PORK CHOPS & ITALIAN SAUSAGE BAKED WITH WEDGED SWEET POTATOES ITALIAN STYLE

Steps:

• 1. I am using 1 thick cut pork chop per person and 2 sausage links per person, so you can portion size this dish according to how many your feeding. Could be 6 or 8, size pan accordingly.
• 2. POTATOES FIRST: With skins on, clean and boil until fork tender all your potatoes, set aside and cool. When cooled and remove skins and cut into wedges, set aside.
• 3. PORK CHOPS AND SAUSAGE: Pan should be the size needed to hold all chops,sausage and potato wedges. Put in the bottom of the pan just a sprinkle of olive oil and 3/4 cup of water. Place your pork chops, sausage and potato wedges on top of olive oiland water for all to fit. Sprinkle with just a little grated cheese.
• 4. TOPPING: Chop vidalia onion, add grated cheese, Italian seasoned bread crumbs and mix together. Sprinkle all of this all over the chops, sausage and potato wedges. Sprinkle with a little more olive oil and BAKE 350 for 1 hour until pork chops are done, check that they are done and sausage is done according to your ovens heat. You can loosly cover with alum. foil first 1/2 hr. then uncover the rest of the time. Enjoy...