Indian-spiced Pork Chop Potato Skillet

In this Indian-Spiced Pork Chop Potato Skillet you cook the chops till tender in a spicy tomato-onion sauce. Add potatoes and you have a full meal in one pan.

I’ve written before about what an adventurous eater my mom is. Such a role model! She can’t pass a road stand or food stall without trying whatever they are serving up. Of course, being from southern Louisiana, eating spicy is in our blood, but when we moved to Trinidad, the flavors and spices we were introduced to, and she began to use in her cooking, increased exponentially. 

At the ripe old age of five, I was already a curry addict. After three years we moved on to the next country but Mom kept making curry. It was a true family favorite. The meat might vary - beef or chicken or pork -but there had to be potatoes and, since that was the tradition, she served it over white rice. 

Indian-spiced Pork Chop Potato Skillet

This recipe isn’t strictly a curry but it certainly has many of the same flavors. I adapted it from a pressure cooker recipe on Magpie’s Recipes to go with the Keralan appam I made for a Bread Bakers event, so I skipped the rice. Appam looks like a lacy crepe and it’s made with a fermented rice batter, so I figured I did have rice, just in another form. You can serve it with rice, if you want to, but it’s a great one-pan skillet meal even without it, thanks to the potatoes!

Ingredients

4 thick pork chops – about 225g or 1/2 lb each 

3 tablespoons vinegar  

1 teaspoon sugar 

1 teaspoon salt, plus extra to taste 

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

2 tablespoons olive oil

3 medium onions, sliced thin  (about 3/4 lb or 350g before peeling)

2 ripe beef steak or equivalent other tomatoes, cored and chopped (about 1 1/4 lbs or 600g whole) 

5 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed (about 1 3/4 lbs or 790g whole)

1 stick cinnamon

3 cloves

3 green cardamom pods

1 teaspoon ground cayenne 

1 teaspoon ground coriander

1/4 teaspoon turmeric

Chopped green onions to garnish, if desired. 

Method

Use a mallet to pound the meat part of the pork chops flat. Sprinkle them with the vinegar and season with the salt, sugar and pepper.  

Cover them with cling film and leave to marinate in the refrigerator for several hours, or even overnight. 

Heat one tablespoon of oil in your skillet and fry the chops two at a time over a high heat until browned on both sides. This should just take 3-4 minutes a side. Apologies for the lack of photos of this step. The chops kept spitting at the camera lens as they fried. Remove the chops to a clean plate. 

Drizzle in the second tablespoon of olive oil and add in the onions. Turn the fire down to medium and cook the onions for 5-6 minutes or until softened, breaking apart the slices with your stirring spoon. 

Add tomatoes and spices and stir. 

Return the chops to the pan and cover with a lid. Simmer for 30 minutes, checking occasionally and adding more water as needed so it doesn’t go dry. 

Add in the cubed potatoes and cook covered for another 15 minutes or so, until the potatoes are tender, adding a little more salt, if necessary.

Remove the pork chops and stir the potatoes into the sauce to serve. Garnish with some green onions, if desired.

Enjoy! 

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