Weeknight Delight in Pork!

Ok quick new recipe that I made last night from Real Simple that I altered a bit, and it was so satisfying I wanted to drink the leftover sauce…….

Ingredients:

• Bone in pork chops (2)
• A pint of grape or cherry tomatoes sliced in half the long way
• White wine ½ cup
• Prosciutto, about 10 think slices, chopped into small pieces
• Quick cooking polenta ½ cup
• Greyer cheese about 1 cup grated
• Garlic, one big clove chopped
• 2 cups water and salt and pepper

 

 

Prep and cook: (this sounds like a lot but the whole meal takes about 25 minutes start to finish!

• Heat oven to 400
• Chop prosciutto, garlic, and tomatoes, grate cheese
• Put 2 cups of water in a small, but tall, pot to boil with a ¼ teaspoon of salt for the polenta and heat on medium
• Heat ovenproof pan to Med/high heat to sear pork
• Sear the pork chops golden on each side, and set aside, turn down heat
• Toss the sliced tomatoes and garlic and a bit of oil in the hot pan you cooked the pork in
• Let them just soften and then pour in the wine, simmer the tomatoes until they begin to soften, add half the chopped prosciutto
• Add the pork back in and put them in the oven to finish set a timer for about 6-7 minutes 140-145 degrees internal temperature.
• When the pork goes in turn the water up to high and let in come to a boil
• When water boils add in the polenta in a stream while whisking
• Whisk (maybe with an oven mitt on the polenta spits) turn heat back to med
• Whisk constantly until polenta thickens about 3-4 minutes
• Stir in cheese and other half of prosciutto and pour out onto dinner plates
• Pull the pork out and dish it over the polenta, enjoy!

 

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