Pork Chops with Wild Mushrooms
- 2 teaspoons oil
- 2 (1-inch) thick pork rib chops
- 1/2 cup chicken stock
- 1/4 cup madeira
- 1/2 pound assorted wild mushrooms
- 2 teaspoons butter
- Splash of cream
- 2 tablespoons fines herbes (mixture of equal parts chopped chives, chervil, parsley, and tarragon)
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Heat 2 teaspoons oil in a heavy skillet over medium-high heat.
- Sprinkle pork with salt and pepper.
- Add pork to the skillet and saute until brown, about 3 minutes per side.
- Remove from heat and transfer the pork to a square baking dish.
- Add the chicken stock and madeira to the skillet.
- Place over medium-high heat.
- Boil until reduced by half, scraping up browned bits, about 6 minutes.
- Pour over the pork.
- Clean and slice the mushrooms.
- Heat 2 teaspoons butter in the pork skillet.
- Add mushrooms to the skillet and saute until softened and brown.
- Bake pork until tender, about 25 minutes.
- Transfer pork chops to serving plates.
- Place sauce over heat.
- Add mushrooms and a splash of cream into the sauce and bring to a boil.
- Stir the fines herbes into the sauce just before serving, reserving some to sprinkle over the pork chops.
- Spoon sauce over the pork chops.
- Sprinkle with more fines herbes.
oil, pork, chicken stock, madeira, mushrooms, butter, cream, fines herbes
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/pork-chops-with-wild-mushrooms.html (may not work)