This smothered pork chops with mushroom gravy recipe is total comfort food. Sear the pork chops on the stovetop and transfer the pan to the oven to bake at 375F for ~ 5 minutes. Smother baked pork chops with mushroom gravy.
Pork Chops Cooking Tips
This pork chops with mushroom gravy recipe can be used with bone in or boneless pork chops. Decrease the baking time by a couple minutes for boneless pork chops.
Pork chops cook fast and are easy to overcook - a meat thermometer will come in handy if you don't know your oven super well. The internal temperature of pork chops should be 145F.
Make the Mushroom Gravy
Mushroom gravy might be intimidating at first but will easily become a "go to" recipe. Any type of mushroom works for this gravy recipe.
Also any type of broth works: try chicken stock for chicken or pork, or beef stock for mushroom gravy for beef recipes.
Optional - Make A Brine For Pork Chops with Mushroom Gravy
Brining breaks down muscle fibers, adds moisture, and adds flavor. But over brining will make small cuts too salty. I only brine when I remember 🙂
Have extra time? Take it up a notch and make a brine to make your chops extra tender. To make a quick basic brine:
- Bring 2 cups water to a boil and stir in 2 tablespoon table salt. Remove from heat and add 3 cups of ice to bring the temperature of the brine down. You can not put meat in a brine until it is at least room temperature or colder.
- Place pork chops in a ziplock bag and pour the cool brine over the top. Place filled ziplock bag onto a large platter in case the bag leaks.
- Brine minimally 30 minutes to 4 hours. Pat dry and begin the recipe, but skip salting the pork because the brine is so salty.
Basic brining is a ratio of 1 tablespoon salt per 1 cup water or liquid if the brine is not heated up. This recipe heats up the brine and then cools it down with ice so the ratio is adjusted to reflect that.
Serving Suggestion
Round out pork chops with mushroom gravy with a complementary side dish like:
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Things In My Kitchen:
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Smothered Pork Chops And Mushroom Gravy
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This smothered pork chops with mushroom gravy recipe is total comfort food. Sear the pork chops on the stovetop and transfer the pan to the oven to bake at 375F for ~ 5 minutes. Smother baked pork chops with mushroom gravy.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Total Time: 55 minutes
- Yield: 4
- Category: Main Dish / Dinner
- Method: Stovetop / Oven
- Cuisine: International
Ingredients
INGREDIENTS PORK
- 4 bone in pork chops
- salt to taste
- black pepper to taste
INGREDIENTS GRAVY
- ¼ cup unsalted butter
- 16 oz mushrooms, sliced
- ¼ cup all purpose flour
- 1 quart ( 4 cups) beef broth (can also use chicken broth)
- 3 large thyme sprigs
- salt to taste
- black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F.
For the mushroom gravy:
- Bring a large pan to medium high heat and melt the butter. Add mushrooms, reduce heat to medium, and simmer uncovered ~ 15-20 minutes or until all liquid has evaporated.
- Reduce heat and stir in the flour and cook ~ 5 minutes uncovered, stirring so it doesn't burn. It's gonna be clumpy.
- Slowly whisk
in broth to incorporate with the flour mixture.
- Add thyme sprigs and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to a simmer and cook uncovered until thickened ~ 25-30 minutes stirring often.
- Add salt to taste.
in broth to incorporate with the flour mixture.For the pork chops:
- Pat the pork dry and salt and pepper. Don't be shy with the salt.
- Heat a large oven safe pan to high heat and sear pork chops on each side ~ 2-3 minutes or until you have a nice brown seared color.
- Immediately transfer the pork to the oven.
- Bake ~ 5-7 minutes depending on the thickness of the pork chops or until internal temperature of the pork near the bone or in the thickest part reaches 145F.
- Let rest 5 minutes on a plate.
- Remove thyme stems from gravy. Plate pork chops and spoon over mushroom gravy. Happy Eating! Beckie
Notes
Have extra time? Take it up a notch and make a brine to make your chops extra tender. To make a quick basic brine:
- Bring 2 cups water to a boil and stir in 2 tablespoon table salt. Remove from heat and add 3 cups of ice to bring the temperature of the brine down. You can not put meat in a brine until it is at least room temperature or colder.
- Place pork chops in a ziplock bag and pour the cool brine over the top. Place filled ziplock bag onto a large platter in case the bag leaks.
- Brine minimally 30 minutes to 4 hours. Pat dry and begin the recipe, but skip salting the pork because the brine is so salty.
Looks delicious! Hope you are well. Let’s connect soon. Love. E.
Thanks Elaine!