Tray-baked pork chops

Name: Tray-baked pork chops
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 8 pork chops, or 4 double pork chops; 1 x rosemary, garlic and lemon marinade (page 194); 3 parsnips; 3 smooth-skinned pears; 680g/1½lb potatoes, scrubbed; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 x minted bread sauce recipe (page 278)

With herby potatoes, parsnips, pears and minted bread sauce

Not Too Tricky

serves 4

About the recipe

When I make this dish I ask my butcher to slice me a two-rib pork chop. I then ask him to lose one of the ribs and a little of the fat and to bat the meat out slightly, leaving me with a huge pork chop that looks fantastic.

The Return of the Naked Chef, p180

nutrition per serving

Calories

50%

Fat

92%

Saturates

96%

Sugars

20%

Salt

18%

Protein

88%

Carbs

24%

Fibre

of an adult’s reference intake

Recipe From

Penguin Anniversary Edition: The Return Of The Naked Chef

By Jamie Oliver

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Ingredients

8 pork chops, or 4 double pork chops

1 x rosemary, garlic and lemon marinade (page 194)

3 parsnips

3 smooth-skinned pears

680g/1½lb potatoes, scrubbed

salt and freshly ground black pepper

1 x minted bread sauce recipe (page 278)

Method

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For the full recipe, head to page 180 of The Return of the Naked Chef.

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The Return of the Naked Chef Pork Pork chop Potato Mint Gravy & sauces Parsnip Pear Vegetable Fruit Dinner One-pan

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