Skillet Pork Chops with Cabbage and Pear

Skillet Pork Chops with Cabbage, Pear and Walnuts is a simple one pot wonder packed full of Autumnal flavours and textures.

Skillet Pork Chops with Cabbage, Pear, and Walnuts.

These Skillet Pork Chops with Cabbage, Pear and Walnuts recipe just scream autumn in these parts.

Pork chop recipes are not an unusual occurrence here on Krumpli. They are a welcome and ever-present part of what we eat on a day to day basis.

Whether they are dressed up with blingy sides like these pork chops with Jerusalem artichoke puree and blackberries, or simply cooked in the Instant Pot like this pork chop with red cabbage recipe, they are always my food mojo!

Pork has such an affinity with two types of ingredients, fruit, and nuts. Both are on display here in the form of walnuts and pears and they both compliment the juicy skillet pork chops.

The most common fruit associated with Pork is apple as in these sausage rolls, but apples are not the only fruit!

Pear and Walnuts.

Both pears and walnuts are pretty much ubiquitous in my corner of the world at this time of year. Despite not having either a walnut tree or a pear tree in our garden I have not paid a single penny for either of these ingredients since we moved here.

Confessing to a Hungarian that you are fond of an ingredient is a dangerous thing to do. Generosity runs deep in these parts!

Too deep on occasions and it is very easy to be oversupplied with stuff you kinda like… And all because you once mentioned something in a casual conversation.

The pears and walnuts have already started to arrive and I have no idea who the first lot came from.

We went out shopping a couple of days ago and just found a box of them on our doorstep when we got home. This will likely not be the last time this will happen this Autumn!

I am sure many people those two ingredients scream a cake or a dessert of some sort. I saw these ingredients and immediately drooled over a big fat pork chop.

The Best Way To Buy Pork Chops.

Food like this is great. It is a simple matter of just putting together a load of ingredients in a pan and letting the magic just happen.

All the while you just kick back and wait.

However, you do need the right pork chop. Don’t accept some skinny piece of pig from a supermarket shelf for this dish.

It will be dry and overcooked by the time it has any colour or the other ingredients cook.

The first thing to do is go to your butcher and not the supermarket.

Then get a pork chop at least 2.5cm thick, nudging towards 3-3.5cm.

With the bone in that should weigh in at around 300g and should allow you to roast it nicely in the oven and stay lovely and moist. Perfect for these skillet pork chops!